This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I was there through the ages
Chained slaves to their cages
I have seen you eat your own
I'm the cycle of pain
Of a thousand year old reign
I'm suicide and salvation
The omen to nations
That you worship on all fours
I'm the infection and famine
That's knocking at your door
That's why you're feeling so
Unholy
Oh, I was created by man, you know I'm
Unholy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I am the incubus,
I lay the egg in you
The worm that burrows through your brain
But you are the beast that calls me by my name
You send your children to war
To serve bastards and whores
So now you know
You created me on the day that you were born
Unholy
I was created by man, yeah I'm the Lord of the Flies, you know I'm
Unholy
From the left hand of power comes the father of lies, yeah
Unholy
Unholy
I lay you down to sleep
Your soul to keep
Better cross your heart before you die
And now you know
Know that you are mine
That's why you're feeling so
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Chained slaves to their cages
I have seen you eat your own
I'm the cycle of pain
Of a thousand year old reign
I'm suicide and salvation
The omen to nations
That you worship on all fours
I'm the infection and famine
That's knocking at your door
That's why you're feeling so
Unholy
Oh, I was created by man, you know I'm
Unholy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I am the incubus,
I lay the egg in you
The worm that burrows through your brain
But you are the beast that calls me by my name
You send your children to war
To serve bastards and whores
So now you know
You created me on the day that you were born
Unholy
I was created by man, yeah I'm the Lord of the Flies, you know I'm
Unholy
From the left hand of power comes the father of lies, yeah
Unholy
Unholy
I lay you down to sleep
Your soul to keep
Better cross your heart before you die
And now you know
Know that you are mine
That's why you're feeling so
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Unholy Lyrics as written by Carlo Verni Robert Joseph Ellsworth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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wtf?? no comments?? GREAT SONG!
Some of the best vocal work by Gene Simmons.
How can this song have so few comments? It's AMAZING. \m/
brilliant song! i heard somewhere it's gene's reaction to religion. him being a jew, it's as if he's saying it causes more trouble than it helps... something like that anyways.
I am pretty sure it is talking about how people strive to be good and consider themselves to be "holy", but usually end up doing bad things anyway.
I don't think so at all, I think that it is suggesting more of a plague or perhaps the fallen nature in man
As well I think it also is about the hateful tendencies within man
It was said back in the 90s when this song came out it was refering to the evil we know as cancer after Eric Carr past away.
"The worm that burrows through your brain " probably is talking about bad thoughts "You created me on the day that you were born" What is crated when I was born is the original sin. "was created by man, yeah I'm the Lord of the Flies" Is a book that demonstrate that man by their nature are evil.
So I thick that probably is talking about nan evil nature.