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"
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
They hear what I hear
Watching through my eyes
They don't like what they see
Reptiles and Samurai
Are under my skin
They hide in my mind
They speak with my tongue
They run amuck in my terrain
They are not friends
But they are forced reluctantly
To share my brain
Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes shiny teeth some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious pretty swords very clever
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
Reptiles have pretty scales
They run real fast they like to bite some have tails
Samurai like their water hot
Very brave they eat raw fish they fight a lot
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
They hear what I hear
Watching through my eyes
They don't like what they see
Reptiles and Samurai
Are under my skin
They hide in my mind
They speak with my tongue
They run amuck in my terrain
They are not friends
But they are forced reluctantly
To share my brain
Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes shiny teeth some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious pretty swords very clever
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
Reptiles have pretty scales
They run real fast they like to bite some have tails
Samurai like their water hot
Very brave they eat raw fish they fight a lot
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Lyrics submitted by r0cketbabyd0ll, edited by tgregorz
Reptiles and Samurai Lyrics as written by Danny Elfman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Damn. Anybody know what this one's about? On the live DVD Danny says "Now my good friend Sluggo will explain to you the difference between reptiles and samurai!" But there must be something more.