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"
Take this child away
She doesn't want to play
the automatic way, the others do
she doesn't pay, enough attention for
Meaningful exchange
It's time to rearrange this child's mind
before we are polluted by her kind
an unfamiliar strange
You're a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
Yes, there seems to be
some changes you'll agree
she's turning out to be the paradigm
this chemical, imbalance she displayed
we managed to contain
allowing us to train her head and soul
we have this child well under control
Would anyone complain?
For a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
Wait, this one is strong
she's showing signs of life
there's something going wrong
we're loosing her
this proof of will, is strong enough to kill
her principle of shame
we've worked so hard to fill their minds with doubt
a chemical they cannot live without
she'll need a stronger pill
Hey heyy heyyheyy
Hey heyhey hey heyyy x5
Dont you wanna belong?! x4
You sick motherfucker!!!
You're a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom x3
She doesn't want to play
the automatic way, the others do
she doesn't pay, enough attention for
Meaningful exchange
It's time to rearrange this child's mind
before we are polluted by her kind
an unfamiliar strange
You're a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
Yes, there seems to be
some changes you'll agree
she's turning out to be the paradigm
this chemical, imbalance she displayed
we managed to contain
allowing us to train her head and soul
we have this child well under control
Would anyone complain?
For a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
Wait, this one is strong
she's showing signs of life
there's something going wrong
we're loosing her
this proof of will, is strong enough to kill
her principle of shame
we've worked so hard to fill their minds with doubt
a chemical they cannot live without
she'll need a stronger pill
Hey heyy heyyheyy
Hey heyhey hey heyyy x5
Dont you wanna belong?! x4
You sick motherfucker!!!
You're a bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom
bullet in the head of an elephant dream
Now you can't imagine your freedom x3
Lyrics submitted by screamer969799
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actually -- typo sorry. all of the hey's only happen 4 times. sorry bout that