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"
"Are you guys shoplifting?"
"Four finger discount dude."
"Shoplifting is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark!"
"Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha!"
Yeah!
Woah...
It’s five to twelve or far too late,
Woah...
Thanks for your purchase, next consumer please,
How do you want to pay? Credit card or cash!
No matter, as long as you stuff your money in their corrupt asses
And into the dirty industries of child labour...
For more western prosperity.
And the supermarkets grow like cancer, (Cancer!)
Out of the dead and infected ground (The ground!)
Of every captured country,
One by one, by one by...
Woah...
But 24 hour publicity terror,
Woah...
Sweetens the bitter taste of being
Bought and sold, abused and controlled,
Betrayed and delayed, oppressed and wasted away
In their factories.
For every single product they make, you think you need.
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
Woah...
I got their products in my pockets,
Woah...
But they ain't got my bucks. (My bucks!)
And the supermarkets grow like cancer,
Out of the dead and infected ground
Of every captured country,
One by one, by one by one.
Yeah! One... Yeah!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
"Four finger discount dude."
"Shoplifting is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark!"
"Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha!"
Yeah!
Woah...
It’s five to twelve or far too late,
Woah...
Thanks for your purchase, next consumer please,
How do you want to pay? Credit card or cash!
No matter, as long as you stuff your money in their corrupt asses
And into the dirty industries of child labour...
For more western prosperity.
And the supermarkets grow like cancer, (Cancer!)
Out of the dead and infected ground (The ground!)
Of every captured country,
One by one, by one by...
Woah...
But 24 hour publicity terror,
Woah...
Sweetens the bitter taste of being
Bought and sold, abused and controlled,
Betrayed and delayed, oppressed and wasted away
In their factories.
For every single product they make, you think you need.
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
Woah...
I got their products in my pockets,
Woah...
But they ain't got my bucks. (My bucks!)
And the supermarkets grow like cancer,
Out of the dead and infected ground
Of every captured country,
One by one, by one by one.
Yeah! One... Yeah!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
In a world turned upside down,
You have to be a thief to be a honest human.
You have to be a thief, you have to be a thief!
Lyrics submitted by skacore_dude
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Inlay notes say: In this capitalist society we only see products and their prices. All alternative structures get more and more destroyed by their new mega stores and supermarkets. They offer more products, while the quality decreases. Tonnes of food are thrown away to keep prices high every day, as you can see if you sneak behind the stores and take a look into their dumpsters! A lot of the products they sell are produced in poor countries where workers get oppressed and ripped off every day, and millions of animals die in their slaughterhouses. This happens everywhere in every rich country!!!!! We are privileged to live in those countries, so we have to decide whether we support this exploitation silently or we quit paying. It’s easy to make a living out of shoplifting and dumpster diving. This alone will not change the world but it’s exiting and a start...