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"
the king of Mars perfects his commentary skills
I'm a gold plated man monkey full of dollar bills
if you're happier, dial 1 now
don't be fooled by gravity, and don't be like the sun
something went wrong, I hate this song
and if I could change one thing about the weather
well then I would tell the world and I'd become famous
and then I wouldn't need to care about the weather never ever anymore cuz I would be relaxing in Hawaii
but that is not my fate, I'm trapped inside a cage
it isn't even locked, but I'm an idiot
(it's an illusion)
Caesar was a criminal, but his mother was a saint
some say that it's subliminal, but I say that it ain't
science was a masquerade, meant to sell you lemonade
and it worked, they're laughing in their graves
once again I'm falling down a mountain like a metaphor
(god damn leprechauns, god damn leprachauns)
shoot me from a cannon to the moon without a helmet on my head or even oxygen to breath in the offhand chance that there's no air
air is like a something something
air is like an I don't know
and air is just like fog but it's not grey
and it makes me want to
breath in toxic little fumes and then I breath out sugar frosted blood
all I ever did to make you laugh was breath out sugar frosted blood
(what do I do now? tell me lest I do nothing... guardian devil)
I'd like to make a toast to all the little garden gnomes
who bravely sacrificed their lives for me
I'd like to make a toast but no one seems to have a cup
I wonder where my cup has gone I think that it was taken by
the king of Mars perfects his commentary skills
I'm a gold plated man monkey full of dollar bills
you've been standing there, blocking my view
don't be scared by me or me, and don't be like the sun
(because the sun doesn't really exist,
it's an illusion
that's why you shouldn't be like the sun,
because if you are, you don't exist
and I don't associate with people who don't exist)
I'm a gold plated man monkey full of dollar bills
if you're happier, dial 1 now
don't be fooled by gravity, and don't be like the sun
something went wrong, I hate this song
and if I could change one thing about the weather
well then I would tell the world and I'd become famous
and then I wouldn't need to care about the weather never ever anymore cuz I would be relaxing in Hawaii
but that is not my fate, I'm trapped inside a cage
it isn't even locked, but I'm an idiot
(it's an illusion)
Caesar was a criminal, but his mother was a saint
some say that it's subliminal, but I say that it ain't
science was a masquerade, meant to sell you lemonade
and it worked, they're laughing in their graves
once again I'm falling down a mountain like a metaphor
(god damn leprechauns, god damn leprachauns)
shoot me from a cannon to the moon without a helmet on my head or even oxygen to breath in the offhand chance that there's no air
air is like a something something
air is like an I don't know
and air is just like fog but it's not grey
and it makes me want to
breath in toxic little fumes and then I breath out sugar frosted blood
all I ever did to make you laugh was breath out sugar frosted blood
(what do I do now? tell me lest I do nothing... guardian devil)
I'd like to make a toast to all the little garden gnomes
who bravely sacrificed their lives for me
I'd like to make a toast but no one seems to have a cup
I wonder where my cup has gone I think that it was taken by
the king of Mars perfects his commentary skills
I'm a gold plated man monkey full of dollar bills
you've been standing there, blocking my view
don't be scared by me or me, and don't be like the sun
(because the sun doesn't really exist,
it's an illusion
that's why you shouldn't be like the sun,
because if you are, you don't exist
and I don't associate with people who don't exist)
Lyrics submitted by brooza
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Or maybe, just maybe, it's soooooo deep that no one really gets it.
Ponder that awhile.
Really ponder it, it hurts your brain.