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"
So we're gonna die young, 'cause we're tough
And we don't ever need anybody
We might stink, but we're strong
And we don't give a fuck about anyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
We're the sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Well, uptown, downtown, all around
You see, on Cedar Street, where sluts and I will be
We're all out there, looking for a thrill
We got money, but we don't care
We get in trouble for the things we wear
We don't fit in, they're always closing doors
We get kicked around by everyone, outsiders looking in
We're the Cedar Street sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch and I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
East side, west side, suicide
I beat my dick for kicks, I wanna get so high
A cheap bottle of brandy, a joint, or a bottle of wine
Hey what's the matter? Well I'm fucking pissed
I'm all fucked up, but it's such a blast
Because I'm drunk in generation x
Got a barbed wire fence wrapped around my neck
Outsiders looking in, we're the sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Yea, we're gonna die young, 'cause we're tough
And we don't really need
We might stink, but we're strong enough
And we don't give a fuck about anyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
I'm a slut in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
I'm an animal creeping in the night
A sick perverted thing in the sewer pipe
In the concrete jungle, when walls cave in
'Cause sluts in the city rule, OK, outsiders looking in
Well, we're the sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
And we don't ever need anybody
We might stink, but we're strong
And we don't give a fuck about anyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
We're the sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Well, uptown, downtown, all around
You see, on Cedar Street, where sluts and I will be
We're all out there, looking for a thrill
We got money, but we don't care
We get in trouble for the things we wear
We don't fit in, they're always closing doors
We get kicked around by everyone, outsiders looking in
We're the Cedar Street sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch and I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
East side, west side, suicide
I beat my dick for kicks, I wanna get so high
A cheap bottle of brandy, a joint, or a bottle of wine
Hey what's the matter? Well I'm fucking pissed
I'm all fucked up, but it's such a blast
Because I'm drunk in generation x
Got a barbed wire fence wrapped around my neck
Outsiders looking in, we're the sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Yea, we're gonna die young, 'cause we're tough
And we don't really need
We might stink, but we're strong enough
And we don't give a fuck about anyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
I'm a slut in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
I'm an animal creeping in the night
A sick perverted thing in the sewer pipe
In the concrete jungle, when walls cave in
'Cause sluts in the city rule, OK, outsiders looking in
Well, we're the sluts, and we hate everyone
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Oh sluts in the city, walk like me
Oh sluts in the city, talk like me
Oh sluts in the city, I'm a bitch I'm a sleazy whore
Lyrics submitted by bootboysteve
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