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"
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Boom Boom Boom Boom
What's going on today?
We gotta break away
We got a problem and
I think it's going to make us go down
They think we're all the same
And always we're to blame
For shit I think is lame
It's time to stop the game
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x4)
What's going on today?
Why must it be this way?
We're going nowhere and
We're still knocking the need to bow down
They think we're all the same
And always we're to blame
For shit I think is lame
It's time to stop the game
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x4)
We are the ones breaking you down
We are the hope to drown out your sounds
Across the world you've fed (?) what you found
Across the world you're breaking you down
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that shit (x4)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x6)
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Boom Boom Boom Boom
What's going on today?
We gotta break away
We got a problem and
I think it's going to make us go down
They think we're all the same
And always we're to blame
For shit I think is lame
It's time to stop the game
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x4)
What's going on today?
Why must it be this way?
We're going nowhere and
We're still knocking the need to bow down
They think we're all the same
And always we're to blame
For shit I think is lame
It's time to stop the game
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x4)
We are the ones breaking you down
We are the hope to drown out your sounds
Across the world you've fed (?) what you found
Across the world you're breaking you down
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that shit (x4)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x6)
Lyrics submitted by Aerion
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I counted and there are 95 F-words in the song. It is really good though.
I wouldn't put Korn in any genre because they're so unique, people with ears dont label Korn Everyone just listen to awsomeness, pshhh goth I laugh at you -.-
this song is about if u want a single. dont JUST buy the single by the whole cd. your just wasting ur money and there's. they have the gift 2 put out music that you like out and they waste ther time and money to make u guys happy. i think u should fuckin respect that.
After watching the video I think it's fairly clear this song's made as an anti-recording industry song.
they do get alot of support, but i think the meaning of the song is how the music industry can get one band to get one hit song, and they can sell out just like that...and Korn definately hasn't sold out.
NO! Sony asked the band to record a radio friendly single. The band refused to do this, and eventually said we gotta write a single. It's not a radio friendly single, its a big "fuck you" to Sony. Sony also asked them to change the video to YWAS. Sony wanted a stripped down performance version, such as the all audience versions of Here To Stay and Thoughtless. The band refused to change the video.
Umm... Once again, the lyrics are wrong, but pretty close this time. Korn are not hypocrites, they dont have near as much support from the recording industry as you might think. Yes, Sony did ask them to tone down this song, but koRn felt this is the way it should be.
Yeah, but this is coming from a band that got a lot of support from the record industry. So, I don't really get the point of it.
coughhypocrites
The vide is one of the best I've ever seen and it all makes sence with what exthuse said... Did u notice the video ends with words "Love, KoRn." The whole text is like a protest letter to their record label or and open letter to their fans...
Singles always deytroy a good record, because they always sound completley different... fuck that