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"
in nervous convulsion
crouches infant ape
trembling in mother's shit
cage eyes tear less
filled with contempt
clinic mask experiment with life and death
smell lingering noxious
mixed scent anxiety
omnipotent doctor grinds the cage door revealing
love's primal instinct taken away
the tiny face terrified
rant and rave smash your head against the cage
vacuum clicks on high
conscious through the pain
pass off as humane
white coat seems so clean
most dirt bleached out
out of greed
force the point of habit
eyes burn in a rabbit
push the pain test button
spine's cut
trip mucous inflection
more die pills each day
what goes around comes back stronger
tap into the brain
break the skull again
smash price research rat
lab rent pain in flesh
more ill drug store sales
sharpen the knife
emphasis on money
new disease everyday
end is seen and coming
research turns its back to gain
crush the spine genocide
kitten drags its dead limb
continuing all suffering
it will come back and win
shock paralyse
turn trauma burns out the will to live
the lying message
5 year genocide 1945
suicide vivisect VI
crouches infant ape
trembling in mother's shit
cage eyes tear less
filled with contempt
clinic mask experiment with life and death
smell lingering noxious
mixed scent anxiety
omnipotent doctor grinds the cage door revealing
love's primal instinct taken away
the tiny face terrified
rant and rave smash your head against the cage
vacuum clicks on high
conscious through the pain
pass off as humane
white coat seems so clean
most dirt bleached out
out of greed
force the point of habit
eyes burn in a rabbit
push the pain test button
spine's cut
trip mucous inflection
more die pills each day
what goes around comes back stronger
tap into the brain
break the skull again
smash price research rat
lab rent pain in flesh
more ill drug store sales
sharpen the knife
emphasis on money
new disease everyday
end is seen and coming
research turns its back to gain
crush the spine genocide
kitten drags its dead limb
continuing all suffering
it will come back and win
shock paralyse
turn trauma burns out the will to live
the lying message
5 year genocide 1945
suicide vivisect VI
Lyrics submitted by jt
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exactly...and the title of the album is VIVIsect VI
VI VI sect VI 6 6 sect 6 vivisection = 666
i believe that was the meaning, anyway
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