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"
I see her body move in deadly positons
Her fingers graze my neck for the last time
Her lungs are spilling out
What's keeping me alive?
What's keeping her alive?
Let's see, let's cut of all her long blond hair
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
I see the victims of the deadliest poison
My face has turned her skin chalk white
My lungs are spilling out
What's keeping her alive, but was she ever dead?
Let's see, there's footprints trailing out of the morgue
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
I see her body move
I watch her body move
She's deadly poison
My only poison
I see her body move
I watch her body move
She's deadly poison
My only poison
Let's see, let's cut of all her long blond hair
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
My enemy
My enemy
What you did to me
You'll always be my...
Listen sweetie (I see her body move)
You never meant that much to me (I watch her body move, she's deadly poison, my only poison)
Hope your eyes can see (I see her body move)
What you did to me (I watch her body move)
You'll always be my enemy (She's deadly poison, my only poison)
Her fingers graze my neck for the last time
Her lungs are spilling out
What's keeping me alive?
What's keeping her alive?
Let's see, let's cut of all her long blond hair
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
I see the victims of the deadliest poison
My face has turned her skin chalk white
My lungs are spilling out
What's keeping her alive, but was she ever dead?
Let's see, there's footprints trailing out of the morgue
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
I see her body move
I watch her body move
She's deadly poison
My only poison
I see her body move
I watch her body move
She's deadly poison
My only poison
Let's see, let's cut of all her long blond hair
Listen sweetie
You never meant that much to me
Hope your eyes can see
What you did to me
You'll always be my enemy
My enemy
My enemy
What you did to me
You'll always be my...
Listen sweetie (I see her body move)
You never meant that much to me (I watch her body move, she's deadly poison, my only poison)
Hope your eyes can see (I see her body move)
What you did to me (I watch her body move)
You'll always be my enemy (She's deadly poison, my only poison)
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
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"deadly positions"-- Deadly in the seductive sense. Perhaps she was trying to be charming/seductive to change the atmosphere. "Her fingers graze my neck for the last time" -- Her touch & charm wasn't working on him. "Her lungs are spilling out" -- she's trying to sweet-talk him out of the argument.
Chorus -- He's telling her off, as well as trying convince himself he doesn't need her.
"i see the victims of the deadliest poison"-- he's remembering and probably confronting her past.
"my face has turned her skin chalk white"-- he's probably pissed and she's either guilty for being caught or afraid of his anger.
"my only poison"-- even though he knows she's bad for him, he's still addicted to her and can't quite let her go.
I don't understand how to interpret the other stuff though: "Let's see, let's cut of all her long blond hair" -- Is he just saying that out of anger? "What's keeping me alive?/ What's keeping her alive?" -- is "alive" supposed to contrast her "deadliest positions"?
"Let's see, there's footprints trailing out of the morgue"-- does this refer to seeing the route of her cold-heartedness?