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"
(Static)
Y’all set?
Yep.
We’re rolling on take three, “Some Kinda Hate”.
1, 2
(Static)
Do that over again. I lost the stick at the end.
Okay, we’re rolling on take four, “Some Kinda Hate”.
Ah! Do it.
(Static)
Oooh-ooh
We’re rolling on take three, “Hollywood Babylon”.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“Who came along for the ride/Hey, you can't come inside/Do the citizens kneel for sex/It's heaven cumming on her chest/Hollywood Babylon/Hollywood Babylon/Flesh ancient monster design/Unless you wanna crop that size”
What happened?
Yeah?
Okay.
That’s a five-dollar fine Jerry.
(laughter)
Okay, we’re rolling on take…uhh…take four, “Hollywood Babylon”.
(Static)
…une the guitar.
Yeah.
But we’ll worry about that in a minute. Don’t worry about it. Okay. “Attitude”, take one, we’re rolling.
1, 2, 3, 4!
Drumming is a…
On two, rolling on take two.
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Hey. Hey J…
(Static)
Ready? 1, 2, 3
Okay, we’re rolling, this is take two.
1
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “Come Back”, take one.
On two. “Come Back” take two.
(Static)
…really echoey
Okay, we’re rolling on “Return of the Fly” take one.
1, 2, 3, 4!
Okay, we’re rolling on “Return of the Fly” take one.
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “Insert” take one.
“One last caress/One last caress sweet death/One last caress sweet death/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oohhhh/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oh!/Oh”
(Static)
Theme for a jackal, really. We’re rolling, take one.
(Static)
I mighta messed up in there.
Yeah, he’s gonna hafta do this…
This is take two, “Hybrid Moment”
(Static)
Get it.
K, we’re rolling on three.
Alright...lemme try sittin’ down on this one, ‘cause I am not doin’ this standin’ up. Are you ready?
Yeah, we’re rolling.
(Static)
Missed the ending.
(Static)
(laughter) That better? Ye…
Okay, this is “Static Age”, take one.
Alright, let’s hear it. 1, 2, 3, 4!
(Static)
That’s short.
Yeah, do it again. I made a mistake.
Short?
Short.
Um.
(Static)
It’s messed up at the end huh. I think it was twice. Dun-dun-dow-dow. No, four I mean, real…
(Static)
Okay, this is “TV Casualty” take one.
Ready?
Yeah.
1, 2…ready Jim?
Yeah.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“There are paint smears on everything I own/The vapor rub is lying on a table of filth/Christmas cards to which I never reply/My eyeballs absorb only blue filtered light/TV casualty, TV casualty/We're all right/TV casualty, TV (mumbling)”
I messed up in the beginning, I don’t wanna go through it and then hafta do it again anyway.
(Static)
Yeah, do it again. We’re rolling on take two, “138”.
Ready?
Count! We can hear you. Count!
You count.
(Static)
“We are 138…”
Jerry, you’re off.
Yes.
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “She” take one.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“She walked out with empty arms/Machine gun in her hand/She is good and she is bad/No one un…”
…singin’
I’m sorry, my fault. Hang on one second.
…singin’.
I know, I just don’t know if I need singin’.
Okay. We’re rolling on take two, “She”.
Ready? 1, 2, 3, 4!
I’m sorry.
(cough)
One more, please.
We’re rolling on “She” take three.
(Static)
“I’ve just signed a reason with Mr. Ricky Ricardo that Stuben’s skin flints…”
“That’s cool…”
“Tube seven-thirty action news and week try…the early evening news that is ready when you are.”
“Okay, time to play…”
“Turn it out. Doris put your arm…”
“…fresh milk…”
“(laughter)”
“…I felt guilty I…”
“…the first pick…”
(Static)
Y’all set?
Yep.
We’re rolling on take three, “Some Kinda Hate”.
1, 2
(Static)
Do that over again. I lost the stick at the end.
Okay, we’re rolling on take four, “Some Kinda Hate”.
Ah! Do it.
(Static)
Oooh-ooh
We’re rolling on take three, “Hollywood Babylon”.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“Who came along for the ride/Hey, you can't come inside/Do the citizens kneel for sex/It's heaven cumming on her chest/Hollywood Babylon/Hollywood Babylon/Flesh ancient monster design/Unless you wanna crop that size”
What happened?
Yeah?
Okay.
That’s a five-dollar fine Jerry.
(laughter)
Okay, we’re rolling on take…uhh…take four, “Hollywood Babylon”.
(Static)
…une the guitar.
Yeah.
But we’ll worry about that in a minute. Don’t worry about it. Okay. “Attitude”, take one, we’re rolling.
1, 2, 3, 4!
Drumming is a…
On two, rolling on take two.
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Hey. Hey J…
(Static)
Ready? 1, 2, 3
Okay, we’re rolling, this is take two.
1
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “Come Back”, take one.
On two. “Come Back” take two.
(Static)
…really echoey
Okay, we’re rolling on “Return of the Fly” take one.
1, 2, 3, 4!
Okay, we’re rolling on “Return of the Fly” take one.
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “Insert” take one.
“One last caress/One last caress sweet death/One last caress sweet death/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oohhhh/Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa/Oh!/Oh”
(Static)
Theme for a jackal, really. We’re rolling, take one.
(Static)
I mighta messed up in there.
Yeah, he’s gonna hafta do this…
This is take two, “Hybrid Moment”
(Static)
Get it.
K, we’re rolling on three.
Alright...lemme try sittin’ down on this one, ‘cause I am not doin’ this standin’ up. Are you ready?
Yeah, we’re rolling.
(Static)
Missed the ending.
(Static)
(laughter) That better? Ye…
Okay, this is “Static Age”, take one.
Alright, let’s hear it. 1, 2, 3, 4!
(Static)
That’s short.
Yeah, do it again. I made a mistake.
Short?
Short.
Um.
(Static)
It’s messed up at the end huh. I think it was twice. Dun-dun-dow-dow. No, four I mean, real…
(Static)
Okay, this is “TV Casualty” take one.
Ready?
Yeah.
1, 2…ready Jim?
Yeah.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“There are paint smears on everything I own/The vapor rub is lying on a table of filth/Christmas cards to which I never reply/My eyeballs absorb only blue filtered light/TV casualty, TV casualty/We're all right/TV casualty, TV (mumbling)”
I messed up in the beginning, I don’t wanna go through it and then hafta do it again anyway.
(Static)
Yeah, do it again. We’re rolling on take two, “138”.
Ready?
Count! We can hear you. Count!
You count.
(Static)
“We are 138…”
Jerry, you’re off.
Yes.
(Static)
Okay, we’re rolling on “She” take one.
1, 2, 3, 4!
“She walked out with empty arms/Machine gun in her hand/She is good and she is bad/No one un…”
…singin’
I’m sorry, my fault. Hang on one second.
…singin’.
I know, I just don’t know if I need singin’.
Okay. We’re rolling on take two, “She”.
Ready? 1, 2, 3, 4!
I’m sorry.
(cough)
One more, please.
We’re rolling on “She” take three.
(Static)
“I’ve just signed a reason with Mr. Ricky Ricardo that Stuben’s skin flints…”
“That’s cool…”
“Tube seven-thirty action news and week try…the early evening news that is ready when you are.”
“Okay, time to play…”
“Turn it out. Doris put your arm…”
“…fresh milk…”
“(laughter)”
“…I felt guilty I…”
“…the first pick…”
(Static)
Lyrics submitted by marx
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