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"
Semen tastes like gunmetal she said smiling,
The arms of boys drowning in fire reaching for the rungs of my rib cage.
These pills I take in the witching hour.
I imagine I am swallowing you.
The arms of boys drowning in fire reaching for the rungs of my rib cage.
These pills I take in the witching hour.
I imagine I am swallowing you.
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Maybe this is from the point of the cheerleader. All these guys want her and she keeps playing them, like most girls do. But in all reality she hates her life, takes pills for relief and dies. This is a long shot and is most definetly wrong. Im tired.
I pretty much see this song as this message: Through this act of lust, I'm stealing your soul.
i see this as the sterotypical evil mean bitchy hot chick "Semen tastes like gunmetal she said smiling," shes a slut "the arms of boys drowning in fire reaching for the rungs of my rib cage." she is an obvious object of lust "These pills I take in the witching hour. I imagine I am swallowing you. " and from this i think she finds the lifestyle unsatisfying
"This song is awful and a SELLOUT, Sully would write the soundtrack to Scorpion King 2 and than put on cheering ooutfit and pee all over Pig Destroyer."
are you fucking kidding me? look at your username for christ's sake how does this song define a sellout? if anything their new stuff would match that description, but not even
GodsMAck4LiFe= Obvious troll is obvious
This song is about a young ridiculously hot whore, who lives the "life", but is really living a unsatisfying lie.
This is what I was thinking: There's this cheerleader/beautiful girl and a lot of guys want her. They are suffering ("drowning in fire") because they can't have her, and she likes it ("semen tastes like gunmetal"). He (the storyteller) also is lusting after the girl and abuses substances ("the pills I take" / "swallowing you") to try and get over it when he's feeling depressed (in "the witching hour").
I'm not totally sure about the "reaching for the rungs of my ribcage" bit - maybe he knew some of her lovers?
Maybe I'm trying to relate this to my own experiences too much, but that's just what I took from it.
I believe your all wrong i know this song is about being in the in crowd, and a girl who overcomes adversity to make the varsity cheering squad. This song is awful and a SELLOUT, Sully would write the soundtrack to Scorpion King 2 and than put on cheering ooutfit and pee all over Pig Destroyer.