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"
Wrap the wire round the neck,
pull it tight to suffocate
His mouth is spewing steaming blood
Hang the body with a cord, gag his mouth
with shards of steel
He doesn't know the pain he'll feel
Interwoven deadly spikes, tightening cables
lacerate
Assorted gashes open wide
Ruptured veins are gushing blood, scraps of
skin are flying off
The body of the helpless prey
Jagged cable binds, you scream, No escape
Metal barbs tearing at you, Rend your flesh
Tear apart the tendons,
wire chokes the victim
Shred away his features,
shred away his being
Rip the tissue from the body, Rend your flesh
Lacerate, sharp spikes rip
Mutilate, pierce the skin
Mummified in the barbed wire
Breathing stops, life expires
Mummified in the barbed wire
Metal binds as you die
Tangled in a web of pain, No escape
Blood seeps through the metal sheath,
Saw-like noose
Tear apart the tendons,
wire chokes the victim
Shred away his features,
shred away his being
Gleaming cords encase the corpse, No escape
Lacerate, sharp spikes rip
Mutilate, pierce the skin
Mummified in the barbed wire
Breathing stops, life expires
Mummified in the barbed wire
Metal binds as you die
Steel wraps your face, blood soaks the steel
Bound in wire, soon to die, life choked out,
bleed to death
pull it tight to suffocate
His mouth is spewing steaming blood
Hang the body with a cord, gag his mouth
with shards of steel
He doesn't know the pain he'll feel
Interwoven deadly spikes, tightening cables
lacerate
Assorted gashes open wide
Ruptured veins are gushing blood, scraps of
skin are flying off
The body of the helpless prey
Jagged cable binds, you scream, No escape
Metal barbs tearing at you, Rend your flesh
Tear apart the tendons,
wire chokes the victim
Shred away his features,
shred away his being
Rip the tissue from the body, Rend your flesh
Lacerate, sharp spikes rip
Mutilate, pierce the skin
Mummified in the barbed wire
Breathing stops, life expires
Mummified in the barbed wire
Metal binds as you die
Tangled in a web of pain, No escape
Blood seeps through the metal sheath,
Saw-like noose
Tear apart the tendons,
wire chokes the victim
Shred away his features,
shred away his being
Gleaming cords encase the corpse, No escape
Lacerate, sharp spikes rip
Mutilate, pierce the skin
Mummified in the barbed wire
Breathing stops, life expires
Mummified in the barbed wire
Metal binds as you die
Steel wraps your face, blood soaks the steel
Bound in wire, soon to die, life choked out,
bleed to death
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Grow up you pussy
Beautiful lyrics,good bass work.
Was this written before or after Hellraiser 3?
It just reminds me of that Cenobyte who blows fire.
it was written in 1995-6 ish. album in 1996, may have been written up to a year before that. excellent song.
Beautiful lyrics? Are you a murderer, these losers' lyrics are the official guide to rapists and murderers, their songs are pointless and sick. These freaks should be hung, and then thrown into a pile of shit, but they'd probably like that by looking at their lyrics.
whatever these lyrics are, they ain't beautiful
mudvayne fan needs to calm the FUCK down, if people like their songs, then they're not pointless. thinking that they are is incredibly selfish. a band like these guys aren't out to please everyone, theyre only there to see the effect that their songs have on people and to see whether they can make any money out of it. i find the thing to do with cc is just listen to it, then it all comes together and makes a feasible piece of music.
so yeah keep that in mind =]
Thats bullshit. They make music because they love to do it, not to make money on some gore-driven publicity stunt. Because of their censorship issues, they get virtually no radio or television airtime, which actually greatly impairs their public image and, ultimately, their album sales. If they wanted to make money, they defiantly wouldn't write such controversial lyrics and if they wanted to make lyrics for sheer shock value, they could be alot more offending (see Anal Cunt). The fact that they sold over 1.5 million with these impairments is quite impressive. The fact remains that they're lyrics are no different from horror films or novels. Their an extremely talented band and I can't wait to see them this July.
mudvaynefan66 you are a jackass, dont look up lyrics to songs you dont like. I listen to cannibal corpse and so do the rest of the people here so go listen to gay ass nu metal like mudvayne cause it wont bother me and you wont see me commenting about it. If you ask me, you deserve to be hanged for being such a fucking douchebag.
i believe the meaning of this song is about flowers and cupcakes or something. i don't know i could be wrong. i'm sort of new at this
i agree with Kapitol, it is pretty obvious it is about flowers and cupcakes
just listened to this song-Cannibal Corpse rules at the grotesque, this movie would be great to a horror film like Saw
for those who find these lyrics disturbing, do you listen to death metal regularly?