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"
A relapse of my body
Sends my mind into multiple seizures
Psychologically a new human being
One that has never been
Cursed by the shamen
his voodoo spell has my soul
My limbs
go numb
I can't control my own thought
Are his now
his evil consuming me
ever telling me
begin the clit carving
Slowly turning me, into a flesh eating zombie
Knowing this spell can only be broken
by the vaginal skins of young women
I proceed to find the meat
their bleeding cunts will set me free
Warmth seeping from this
Body
Rotted
After I sucked the blood from her ass
I feel more alive
more alive than I've ever been
Even though now I'm dead within
My mouth drools
As I slice your perinium
My body smeared
With the guts I've extracted
through her hole, came swollen organs
cunnilingus with the mutilated
My spirit returned from the dead
Released by the priest
but I felt more real
when I was dead
The curse is broken
I have a dependence on vaginal skin
It's become my sexual addiction
I must slit, the twitching clit
Rotted cavity hold the juice
Between the legs, I love to carve
My cock is dripping with her blood
Sends my mind into multiple seizures
Psychologically a new human being
One that has never been
Cursed by the shamen
his voodoo spell has my soul
My limbs
go numb
I can't control my own thought
Are his now
his evil consuming me
ever telling me
begin the clit carving
Slowly turning me, into a flesh eating zombie
Knowing this spell can only be broken
by the vaginal skins of young women
I proceed to find the meat
their bleeding cunts will set me free
Warmth seeping from this
Body
Rotted
After I sucked the blood from her ass
I feel more alive
more alive than I've ever been
Even though now I'm dead within
My mouth drools
As I slice your perinium
My body smeared
With the guts I've extracted
through her hole, came swollen organs
cunnilingus with the mutilated
My spirit returned from the dead
Released by the priest
but I felt more real
when I was dead
The curse is broken
I have a dependence on vaginal skin
It's become my sexual addiction
I must slit, the twitching clit
Rotted cavity hold the juice
Between the legs, I love to carve
My cock is dripping with her blood
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"We don't sing about politics. We don't sing about religion...All our songs are short stories that, if anyone would so choose they could convert it into a horror movie. Really, that's all it is. We like gruesome, scary movies, and we want the lyrics to be like that. Yeah, it's about killing people, but it's not promoting it at all. Basically these are fictional stories, and that's it. And anyone who gets upset about it is ridiculous."
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all you people that are dissing this song are probably just a bunch of pussies that think linkin park is heavy metal so go listen to your EMO cds so that you don't wet your pants.
oh and by the way this song kicks the shit out of any music out today.
this song is pretty disgusting, about disgusting habits of the gore obsessed. reminds me of my friend nick... he's gaylees with bowlees.
theatre of tragedy is a band some of you fuckers might wanna look into. good shit.
While I’m not sure if the whole song is about it, the intro is a quote from an interview with serial killer Arthur Shawcross. The title is also most likely based on his story. I haven’t seen any comment mentioning this but I can’t be bothered to scroll through them all on my shitty phone.
Its a good song but the first two comments dont seem to realize that its just FICTION,just like horror movies and books,no bearing on reality...so get over it.
i agree with OxygenWastingKoser. the ppl who wrote the first 2 comments probably arefans of Brit.Spearsor something, Common!!! it's a gore song, they cant really talk about love and flowers!!! if the song scares u or makes u sick, then it servesits purpose and thats all there is to say!!
CANNIBAL CORPSE KICKS ASS! Nevermind the lyrics, there musical talent is great! Nice instruments, growls, ect., Good stuff! Yeah I like this kind of music, and I'm into horror movies alot [especially the cheesy B movies, they give me a good laugh]. Mortitian, and Acid Bath are good too. I'm not offended by this stuff, however I hate [c]rap music because them damn rappers are always cutting down woman, and they mean what they say. With deathmetal its mostly about the music not really the lyrics, or image, or money or sex. They like playing music, but they got to put in the scary or sick lyrics to go with it, becaus its supposed to be morbid. I've noticed that the people that listen to this kind of music are usually more laid back, and very intelligent. Also more artistic.
This song brings tears to my eyes. Never have I heard such sweet poetry, never. And the piano/cello piece at the end is a beeautiful touch. Bravo, Cannibal Corpse. Bravo.