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's not a far commute to access the company of brighter pigments
Administer abuse, detach then release a pixilated statement
Recessive paper weights in training, school children infiltrate the branstem
Sexual organs start exchanging
It feels like I'm in a Darger painting, Henry must have been lonely
Van City's got a wide array of suspects
They're not afraid to do whatever you suggest
Seems to be no shortage of the excess
So let's dive in, let's dive in
A contraceptive verse, deceiving, so no one figures out what I mean
I'll harvest my tongue, negating lyrical parasites in waiting Zip driven amputee
Frustrated, can't seem to get a clear connection
You may have hit eject, impatient, feels like this room is going to cave in
And it could happen this instant
Submerged in an amber grave that's not how you'll calculate your worth
Don't consider it a waste, cannot keep from moving in reverse
Don't question me about the content, I'm not in the mood for explanation
So figure this out for yourself
Administer abuse, detach then release a pixilated statement
Recessive paper weights in training, school children infiltrate the branstem
Sexual organs start exchanging
It feels like I'm in a Darger painting, Henry must have been lonely
Van City's got a wide array of suspects
They're not afraid to do whatever you suggest
Seems to be no shortage of the excess
So let's dive in, let's dive in
A contraceptive verse, deceiving, so no one figures out what I mean
I'll harvest my tongue, negating lyrical parasites in waiting Zip driven amputee
Frustrated, can't seem to get a clear connection
You may have hit eject, impatient, feels like this room is going to cave in
And it could happen this instant
Submerged in an amber grave that's not how you'll calculate your worth
Don't consider it a waste, cannot keep from moving in reverse
Don't question me about the content, I'm not in the mood for explanation
So figure this out for yourself
Lyrics submitted by Sparkle_motion
Placentapede Lyrics as written by Francis Mark Brian Deneeve
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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The song translated into simpler terms from my point of view.
It's easy to get our music to reach white people. Abuse them, go away for a while, then come back with an album. They're being taught not to hold to anything. Students in the modern school system encourage and force this upon each other.
This next part is possibly a reference to homo/bisexual teens. (Sexual organs start exchanging It feels like I'm in a Darger painting, Henry must have been lonely) Henry Darger wrote stories and painted pictures of hermaphrodite children. (They were both boys and girls at the same time) "Henry must have ben lonely" He was a recluse, and Fran may be asserting that loneliness leads to homosexuality.
On to the chorus...
Van City is slang for Vancouver, Canada. "Van City's got a wide array of suspects They're not afraid to do whatever you suggest Seems to be no shortage of the excess So let's dive in, let's dive in" Vancouver has the highest crime rate of any large Canadian city. Fran seems to be saying, like in the first verse, and in a satirical fashion, go with the flow. Let's go to Van City and commit crimes, because everyone else does. Let's hold to no beliefs, or go homosexual (No, I'm not against homosexuality), or listen to From Autumn To Ashes just because everyone else is doing it,
Next verse...
I'm using big words so the fans can't tell what I'm saying (Nice try Fran) I'll sing about what nobody thinks I will. "Zip driven amputee, frustrated. Can't seem to get a clear connection" (Zip is another word for an ounce of marijuana) Marijuana addict frustrated because he can't understand the damn song! He may stope listening to the song, impatient with this new style. (The change in Abandon Your Friends) The cave in may be a reference to the band braking up, which was their plan until recently.
Last verse. Amber is a type of LSD (drug) If you die doing drugs, that doesn't mean you're a bad person or a good person. Don't consider your life wasted. Even if you diodn't do drugs, you would die another way. Don't ask me (Fran) what this song means. Figure it out yourself. (Which I think I just did)
Possibly a deep song, possibly I'm just overanalyzing it. Great song either way.