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"
Look at you
With all your shiny
Toys for boys
It's all unnerving
Bold and new
But dark and spotty
The toys enjoy
The undeserving
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
Fat the world
Then sink your teeth in
Cannibal and missionary
Toes are curled
My thanks uneven
When tales so tall
Are ordinary
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
With all your shiny
Toys for boys
It's all unnerving
Bold and new
But dark and spotty
The toys enjoy
The undeserving
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
Fat the world
Then sink your teeth in
Cannibal and missionary
Toes are curled
My thanks uneven
When tales so tall
Are ordinary
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
Don't ask
Don't tell
Follow
Don't ask
Don't tell
Yeah
Lyrics submitted by blairstheory
Follow Lyrics as written by Brandon Boyd Ben Kenney
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Man, I love Incubus. This is no different.
at first, i didnt like this song. but after hearing it again, i have fallen in love with it. yay blairstheory for putting it on here.
halo 2= the shit. alive @ red rocks also= the shit.
greatness...i like the beginning with the halo theme and then it moves to the coolio guitar action "Fat the World Then sink your teeth in Cannibal and missionary Toes are curled My thanks uneven When tales so tall Are ordinary" it's a little dark...
dont follow people. go your own path. ask questions. dont just choose to have the same opinion as someone else just becuase he/she is a higher status in society or perhaps more popular than you are or something.... im just thinking out loud lol
isnt the whole "dont ask dont tell" thing the military's policy on homosexuals? like if the sergeant doesnt ask if your gay, you shouldnt tell them.
ehh the song is ok but i love the beginnign with brandon singing the classic halo intro theme
Canibal and Missionary are 2 of the members of Incubus' Halo 2 names. I am personally not a big fan of the game, but i love incubus, and all my friends love halo. If you know alot about Incubus, you know that they also love halo, and spend most of there free time playing it. I watched them at the premier of Halo 2, and before i even heard the song Follow (the reason for watching the Halo thing) I noticed their halo names so that i could tell my friends to look for them if they play them on Xbox live... Then i heard the song... didnt pick up on it right away, but after listening to it a couple times i noticed part of the lyrics was the same as their halo 2 names... so basically what im trying to say is that the song is about halo.
I thought it was "Fight the world"....oh well.
"Canibal and Missionary are 2 of the members of Incubus' Halo 2 names." Holy Shit! Has anyone tested this?
who? brandon and mike?