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"
I have been in this line of work for a long time
And I have never seen anything so strange and so peculiar
Its all so deranged
see for yourself
Ladies and gentelmen of the jury
step right up and see the freak
we caught him red handed down by the morgue
where he sleeps
and if you think that "That's disgusting"
wait til you hear this
I never can do it justice
Dead girls like me
Dead girls like me
Can't you see?
I don't expect you to understand me
I'm not an ordinary man
and I have seen things with these eyes
you'd never comprehend
see for yourself now
take those living women
they have never shown me any kindness of any kind
its not my fault i look this way
I try to talk to them
they look at me and walk away
so really is it so strange that
dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls like me
oh, dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls don't walk away from me
sad as it seems
have you ever tasted love like this?
cool and smooth have you ever been accepted unconditionaly?
have you ever loved someone who didn't hurt you, didn't harm you?
There's no pain and there's no pressure
no humiliation
there's no fear and there's no shame
there's no pulse now is it so strange?
dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls like me
oh, dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls don't walk away from me
sad as it seems
And I have never seen anything so strange and so peculiar
Its all so deranged
see for yourself
Ladies and gentelmen of the jury
step right up and see the freak
we caught him red handed down by the morgue
where he sleeps
and if you think that "That's disgusting"
wait til you hear this
I never can do it justice
Dead girls like me
Dead girls like me
Can't you see?
I don't expect you to understand me
I'm not an ordinary man
and I have seen things with these eyes
you'd never comprehend
see for yourself now
take those living women
they have never shown me any kindness of any kind
its not my fault i look this way
I try to talk to them
they look at me and walk away
so really is it so strange that
dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls like me
oh, dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls don't walk away from me
sad as it seems
have you ever tasted love like this?
cool and smooth have you ever been accepted unconditionaly?
have you ever loved someone who didn't hurt you, didn't harm you?
There's no pain and there's no pressure
no humiliation
there's no fear and there's no shame
there's no pulse now is it so strange?
dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls like me
oh, dead girls like me
can't you see?
only dead girls don't walk away from me
sad as it seems
Lyrics submitted by eternityawaits
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I'm not sure, Makis. It just seems to me that if that was the point of the song, Voltaire's doing it a little too subtley. But meh, who knows.
I think this was the first song I ever heard by Voltaire - and to this day it remains my favourite.