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"
This fucking country's lost its grip
Subconscious hold begins to slip
The scales of justice tend to tip
The legal system has no spine
It's corroding from inside
Slap your hand you'll do no time
Reality on vacation
All across a blinded nation
Mentality under sedation
Anyone can be set free
On a technicality
Explain the law again to me
Here in 1994
Things are different than before
Violence is what we adore
Invitation to the game
Guns and blades and media fame
Every day more of the same
Murder, mayhem, anarchy
Now are all done legally
Mastermind your killing spree
Unafraid of punishment
With a passive government
There's nothing for you to regret
Nothing to regret
Unimposing policy
No enforcing ministry
Gaping with judicial flaws
Watching a fading nation crawl
Clashing with the public's frame
I'm the one that's place in fame
Legislature sets the stage
Social slaves caught in my rage
Administrative anarchy there's nothing
You can do to me
The world around you drifting to a
Continental tomb you see
Violence is my passion
It will never be contained
Living with aggression and its
Everlasting reign
Subconscious hold begins to slip
The scales of justice tend to tip
The legal system has no spine
It's corroding from inside
Slap your hand you'll do no time
Reality on vacation
All across a blinded nation
Mentality under sedation
Anyone can be set free
On a technicality
Explain the law again to me
Here in 1994
Things are different than before
Violence is what we adore
Invitation to the game
Guns and blades and media fame
Every day more of the same
Murder, mayhem, anarchy
Now are all done legally
Mastermind your killing spree
Unafraid of punishment
With a passive government
There's nothing for you to regret
Nothing to regret
Unimposing policy
No enforcing ministry
Gaping with judicial flaws
Watching a fading nation crawl
Clashing with the public's frame
I'm the one that's place in fame
Legislature sets the stage
Social slaves caught in my rage
Administrative anarchy there's nothing
You can do to me
The world around you drifting to a
Continental tomb you see
Violence is my passion
It will never be contained
Living with aggression and its
Everlasting reign
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this song is about how corrupt the judicial system can be.now matter how serious the crime,anyone can get off a hell of a lot less that they actually deserve if they have enough money.it's common nature for people to not take responsibility for their own actions.rights of criminals are given more nurchuring than that of their victims,as evidenced in the absurd irony of slayer's wrongful death trial just a few short years after divine intervention was released.
Tom: "I don't like people accusing us of being right-wing. 2 of us [this was 1988 when Lombardo was still in the band] aren't even American - how could we be fascists?"
It's obviously not an anti-leftist song. "Dittohead" is primarily used these days to insult fans of Rush Limbaugh.
@Death Disco "DittoHead" was originally a prideful incantation of Rush\'s fan base. They would proudly proclaim that they were dittoheads. \r\nI don\'t know if that has anything to do with they lyrics per-say other than to riff off of their typical themes of destruction, disease, death, the devil, and devolution.\r\n
A feeble stab at revealing how "immoral" the American Left Wing's approach to justice by rattling off a series of uninspired cliches that were frequently slapped on the Democratic party during the 1990s courtesy of a band that spent the first half of its career writing about Satanism, sacrificing virgins, and necrophelia. Slayer have never been known for great lyrics, and a bunch of insipid ABABABABAB forced rhymes is all that's to be found here. The title is clumsy enough and reflects Slayer's not-so-thorough knowledge of modern politics: as Death Disco mentioned, "dittohead" is a term used to disparage fans of Conservative windbag and all-around douche Rush Limbaugh. Maybe it meant something different in 1994, perhaps a more general term to insult idealogues in general. Well guess what Slayer, o great muses of our age: it's 11 years later and conservatives are the ones stealing elections, obstructing justice, invading sovereign nations on faulty or downright false pretenses, changing the rules to suit their own agenda, and promoting blind obedience through it all. And GodHatesACoward? Right-wing policies only offer people greater freedom in theory. We aren't seeing much of that in practice anymore.
@london67 Try ripping those lines out at over 200 beats per minute and get back Tom Araya, if he isn\'t dead by now.
A cunning riposte indeed, Dimebag RIP!
To CPF:
fast song, good solo and bass
Slayer are right-wing because they feel it offers people more freedom
Which it doesn't.
Very well said, london67, but I doubt that Slayer are actually conservative. Pretty much all their lyrics are deliberately offensive bullshit, and this one is likely no different. As in, it's supposed to expose the ranting bullshit spewing from the mouths of Limbaugh and others daily.
to London67 & Deaths disco. . .