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"
It could be the absinthe talking
(I don't think so)
I don't either
I've gotta find a new place
A new place to feed
What could it be?
Stop everything, something is not feeling right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
What can I do?
I've got an idea
I think I'll just become a priest
Deceiving them with my belief
I'll preach about what life is worth
And cover my sins with the church
My demons can run around free
No one will suspect a thing
I'll show them it's okay to lust
A priest is who children can trust
I found a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Something's not right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
What can I do?
I got an idea
I think I'll just become a priest
Deceiving them with my belief
I'll preach about what life is worth
And cover my sins with the church
My demons can run around free
No one will suspect a thing
I'll show them it's okay to lust
A priest is who children can trust
I found a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Oh my God, I'm watching TV, but I can't
Oh, what's this world coming to
I see priests molesting children
I see terrorists blowing up buildings
I see someone in rage, killing Dime Bag on stage
What the fuck is this?
What the fuck is this?
I got a kid, should I send him to Sunday School?
I got a kid, should I send him to Sunday School?
So you can fuck him?
Oh no, no, you ain't gonna fuck him
How bout this?
I don't fucking know who I can trust
In this world and I'm gonna blow
One time
I'm not that scared
Something is not feeling right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Wake up, people
And look at life around you
(I don't think so)
I don't either
I've gotta find a new place
A new place to feed
What could it be?
Stop everything, something is not feeling right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
What can I do?
I've got an idea
I think I'll just become a priest
Deceiving them with my belief
I'll preach about what life is worth
And cover my sins with the church
My demons can run around free
No one will suspect a thing
I'll show them it's okay to lust
A priest is who children can trust
I found a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Something's not right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
What can I do?
I got an idea
I think I'll just become a priest
Deceiving them with my belief
I'll preach about what life is worth
And cover my sins with the church
My demons can run around free
No one will suspect a thing
I'll show them it's okay to lust
A priest is who children can trust
I found a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Oh my God, I'm watching TV, but I can't
Oh, what's this world coming to
I see priests molesting children
I see terrorists blowing up buildings
I see someone in rage, killing Dime Bag on stage
What the fuck is this?
What the fuck is this?
I got a kid, should I send him to Sunday School?
I got a kid, should I send him to Sunday School?
So you can fuck him?
Oh no, no, you ain't gonna fuck him
How bout this?
I don't fucking know who I can trust
In this world and I'm gonna blow
One time
I'm not that scared
Something is not feeling right
The planets are not all aligned
I know it, I've felt this before
My evil is thirsting for more
I need a new outlet to feed
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Baptized by the unexpected
Terrorized by the imperfections
Wake up, people
And look at life around you
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
The Priest Lyrics as written by Samuel Robert Rivers Sam Siegler
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave
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great song. most religious guys will probably be pretty pissed of by the lyrics, which makes it even more enjoyable for me :)
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He's talking about how fucked up the world is today.
The lyrics are a fucming sham. Notonly is fred Durst lusting after chilfren now, but he trivalises the death of Dimebag that is "at best gauche and at worst a fucking insult". what a fucking terrible band.
boooooo!!!
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yea hes goin on a mad one. when i think about the state of the world it can send me into brain overload. maybe thats what hes doing here, thinking about things too much is very bad for you it makes you into a nervous wreck like me
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