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"
Well I come from a planet beyond the stars
Looking for some human body parts
I'm gonna to pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm grave robbing u.s.a. !
And I'm riding around in my black starship
Looking for some crypts to kick
I'm gonna pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
Necrophiliac creatures of evil
Invade the planet earth
On a macabre cosmic mission
To dig up the dead !
Back in the summer of '76
I would dig up bodies to play with
And my favorite was the brain
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A.!
And I wish I may, wish I might
Find me a cold dead corpse for me tonight
I'm gonna pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
Looking for some human body parts
I'm gonna to pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm grave robbing u.s.a. !
And I'm riding around in my black starship
Looking for some crypts to kick
I'm gonna pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
Necrophiliac creatures of evil
Invade the planet earth
On a macabre cosmic mission
To dig up the dead !
Back in the summer of '76
I would dig up bodies to play with
And my favorite was the brain
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A.!
And I wish I may, wish I might
Find me a cold dead corpse for me tonight
I'm gonna pull your body from your grave
'Cause I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
And I'm graverobbing u.s.a. !
And I'm digging up the dead today
'Cause I'm graverobbing U.S.A. !
Lyrics submitted by WeDnEsDaY-13
Graverobbing U.S.A. Lyrics as written by Nathan J Jordison Nathan Jordison
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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i am actually gonna pull ur body from ur grave. but with wednesday im just gonna pull him lol im straight and so is he but im sure well work it out x
u fOrgOt a line...! it says "and i wish i may, wish i might, find me a cOld dead cOrpse tOnight, I'M GONNA PULL UR BODY FROM UR GRAVE, cuz i'm grave rObbing U.S.A." yup yup, u fOrgOt the part i wrOte in caps... *(>_
this rulz! its just so different from the stuff you normally hear these days! i havent heard manson, or slipknot, or any ther band sing about graverobbing for a very long time!
does anyone know what they are whispering before and after the music on this track? i can't make out all of it...
ok, this song is based on the Ed Wood movie, Plan 9 from outer Space, possibly one of the worst movies ever made but not because of the completly implausable plot in which aliens resurrect the dead to prove to humanity that they exist in order to prevent them from developing weapons of mass destruction.
It is actually quite a funny film to watch because of actors stuffing up their lines and bumping into cardboard gravestones which move. The whole set and direston are highly comic.
oh yeah apparently the working title for plan 9 was graverobers from outer space.
all the intro really is is a bunch of crickets and you hear digging lighters flicking on and eric, joey, tripp, wed, n the ghoul talking bout ditching shovels theyre using to dig this bitch up, "fuck you" the usual shit, then i presume joey asks wed for the flashlight in order to see the coffin they are about to open an they proceed to do so when "aww fuck dude" "OH MY GOD!!!" "...I'm First!" ensues. fini you are all very welcome.
Oh n the ending part you hear a bunch of chains jingling and giggling because they're running back to this black starship with their newly acquired body buddy where one of them is in the way, one is missing, and drinking and picture taking starts along with some funky techno music.
Oh n the ending part you hear a bunch of chains jingling and giggling because they're running back to this black starship with their newly acquired body buddy where one of them is in the way, one is missing, and drinking and picture taking starts along with some funky techno music.