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 all so sick
It's all so sick, so sick, so sick
What kind of soap is used in a bloodbath?
What kind of darkness brings a killer sleep?
What kind of rain will fall in the aftermath?
What kind of harvest shall we reap?
Lyin' on the couch, in the glow of my TV
There are several nations burning
If I looked, I'd start to see
But look and you are guilty
Whip the dancer, watch her twirl
White hats along the beach
Winning Kewpie Dolls for the girls
With every dirty deed, the jaws grow stronger
With every drop of blood, the tongue grows longer
Sleepless terror with no place to hide
That's The Bite From Inside
Briefcases drawn and loaded
These men travel in packs
Deciding mankind's future
Droppin' good men in their tracks
It's deja-vu -- a coup d'etat
Not for food or shelter
Just for good old moo-la-la
Life's candle, they will melt her
Sex and drugs and money
That's the way it's always been
When they call the man with bullets
The kiss-ass ass ass sin
Lyin' on the couch, in the glow of my TV
Remote control will set the station, but will never set you free
With every swallowed dream, the jaw grips tighter
With every ripped-up life, the teeth sink deeper
Sleepless terror with no place to hide
That's The Bite From Inside
That's The Bite, that's The Bite
That's The Bite From Inside
It's all so sick
It's all so sick, so sick, so sick
What kind of soap is used in a bloodbath?
What kind of darkness brings a killer sleep?
What kind of rain will fall in the aftermath?
What kind of harvest shall we reap?
Lyin' on the couch, in the glow of my TV
There are several nations burning
If I looked, I'd start to see
But look and you are guilty
Whip the dancer, watch her twirl
White hats along the beach
Winning Kewpie Dolls for the girls
With every dirty deed, the jaws grow stronger
With every drop of blood, the tongue grows longer
Sleepless terror with no place to hide
That's The Bite From Inside
Briefcases drawn and loaded
These men travel in packs
Deciding mankind's future
Droppin' good men in their tracks
It's deja-vu -- a coup d'etat
Not for food or shelter
Just for good old moo-la-la
Life's candle, they will melt her
Sex and drugs and money
That's the way it's always been
When they call the man with bullets
The kiss-ass ass ass sin
Lyin' on the couch, in the glow of my TV
Remote control will set the station, but will never set you free
With every swallowed dream, the jaw grips tighter
With every ripped-up life, the teeth sink deeper
Sleepless terror with no place to hide
That's The Bite From Inside
That's The Bite, that's The Bite
That's The Bite From Inside
It's all so sick
Lyrics submitted by Dokuro
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