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"
Watch your back because the next man is coming
And you don't know if the next man is dumbin'
Survival of the fittest what it is
I got your back, you got my back, and that's the biz
Blood is rushing through my veins, I got the power
Channel the energy and with my strength I will devour
Sickenin thoughts is runnin' through my head
That's when I realized I'm glad I'm not dead
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
It was a dream and then it hit me
Reality struck, and now my life is all shifty
And it all moves, close to a buck 50
We all stand strong in respect to the family
In times of insanity
And through words of profanity
I describe our dysfunctional family
Blood brothers keep it real to the end
Deeper than the thoughts you think, not a trend
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
Again and again
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
(Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill,)
And you don't know if the next man is dumbin'
Survival of the fittest what it is
I got your back, you got my back, and that's the biz
Blood is rushing through my veins, I got the power
Channel the energy and with my strength I will devour
Sickenin thoughts is runnin' through my head
That's when I realized I'm glad I'm not dead
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
It was a dream and then it hit me
Reality struck, and now my life is all shifty
And it all moves, close to a buck 50
We all stand strong in respect to the family
In times of insanity
And through words of profanity
I describe our dysfunctional family
Blood brothers keep it real to the end
Deeper than the thoughts you think, not a trend
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's out nature to kill, kill, kill
Again and again
Corruption and it grows
The salesman of our blood
For the public's craving
Existence in the dark
(Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill,)
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ummm ok guys i just have to correct this whole song ...... who ever put the lyrics obviously hasnt listened to the song that often sooo yea heres the real lyrics guys .... they make more sense in alot of parts cuz he put wrong words and sentences every wherreeeeeeeeee
Watch your back because the next man is comin' And you don't know if the next man is dumbin' Survival of the fittest what it is I got yo back, you got my back, and that's the biz Blood is rushing through my veins, I got the power Channel the energy, and with my strength I will devour Sickening thoughts are running through my head Thats when I realize I'm glad im not dead
Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
It was a dream and then it hit me, reality struck And now my life is all shifty and it all moves fast Close to the buck 50, and we all stand strong In respect to the family in the times of our insanity And in the words of profanity, I describe our dysfunctional family Blood brothers keep it real to the end, deeper than the thoughts that you think? Not a trend!
Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
Again and again ...
Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to KILL, KILL, KILL!!!!
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill ...
yea note the diferances