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"
(Ambience, factory sounds)
Lock up your children.
Lock up your pets as well (your pets as well)
It's time to panic,
because, something is terrible as mad as hell.
So read the papers.
And read the magazines (the magazines)
Something's approaching (oh no, oh no)
And no one knows exactly what it means.
But the killer machines are coming.
Don't let your guard down and watch your back.
It's time to panic, panic, panic in the city, city, city under fire, fire, fire. This is how to act.
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
They have malfunctioned, they went insane.
Here they come with buzz saws rattling chains.
No way to stop them, no where to run.
Robotic destruction has now begun!
I hear the beeping.
I hear the people scream (the people scream)
I think we're finished (oh my god).
How I wish that this were just a dream.
It's like a nightmare (ahhhhhahh).
Have they forgotten Johnny Five? (Johnny Five)
No disasemble. (No, no, no, no, no)
I have a feeling that we won't survive!
We'll be eaten alive by robots!
I see them rolling down the rail road track.
It's time to panic, panic, panic in the city, city, city under fire, fire, fire. This is how I act.
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robots)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robots)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot)
(Robotic tone) Surrender or Die
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
(Fades back to factory sounds)
Lock up your children.
Lock up your pets as well (your pets as well)
It's time to panic,
because, something is terrible as mad as hell.
So read the papers.
And read the magazines (the magazines)
Something's approaching (oh no, oh no)
And no one knows exactly what it means.
But the killer machines are coming.
Don't let your guard down and watch your back.
It's time to panic, panic, panic in the city, city, city under fire, fire, fire. This is how to act.
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
They have malfunctioned, they went insane.
Here they come with buzz saws rattling chains.
No way to stop them, no where to run.
Robotic destruction has now begun!
I hear the beeping.
I hear the people scream (the people scream)
I think we're finished (oh my god).
How I wish that this were just a dream.
It's like a nightmare (ahhhhhahh).
Have they forgotten Johnny Five? (Johnny Five)
No disasemble. (No, no, no, no, no)
I have a feeling that we won't survive!
We'll be eaten alive by robots!
I see them rolling down the rail road track.
It's time to panic, panic, panic in the city, city, city under fire, fire, fire. This is how I act.
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robots)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robots)
When robots attack! (Robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot)
(Robotic tone) Surrender or Die
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
In man against machine, machine will conquer all...
(Fades back to factory sounds)
Lyrics submitted by VulpesVelox
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