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"
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
So hey man, check this out,
Downtown is a riot,
Somethings spreading through the crowd,
Try channel 9,
I'm pretty sure they're heading
Straight for this part of town,
I can't be certain,
But I swear I hear them just outside,
There's no way that this is real,
So count me in
So grab something sharp,
Find some cover,
Kill the lights,
Nail the back door shut,
This isn't funny anymore,
Oh, no, this means war
Don't take this the wrong way,
But I'd much rather choke and die,
Than sit alone and fall with out a fight
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
And there she was,
Glaring,
With olive eyes,
And chalk white skin,
I want you to know,
That I won't be holding back tonight,
She stole my heart,
I'll be taking hers with a long dart now,
But look at the bright side,
It's not like she had one there to start,
Something tells me,
It's gonna be a long night,
So grab something sharp,
Find some cover,
Kill the lights,
Nail the back door shut,
This isn't funny anymore,
Oh, no, this means war,
And something tells me,
It's gonna be a long night
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
So hey man, check this out,
Downtown is a riot,
Somethings spreading through the crowd,
Try channel 9,
I'm pretty sure they're heading
Straight for this part of town,
I can't be certain,
But I swear I hear them just outside,
There's no way that this is real,
So count me in
So grab something sharp,
Find some cover,
Kill the lights,
Nail the back door shut,
This isn't funny anymore,
Oh, no, this means war
Don't take this the wrong way,
But I'd much rather choke and die,
Than sit alone and fall with out a fight
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
And there she was,
Glaring,
With olive eyes,
And chalk white skin,
I want you to know,
That I won't be holding back tonight,
She stole my heart,
I'll be taking hers with a long dart now,
But look at the bright side,
It's not like she had one there to start,
Something tells me,
It's gonna be a long night,
So grab something sharp,
Find some cover,
Kill the lights,
Nail the back door shut,
This isn't funny anymore,
Oh, no, this means war,
And something tells me,
It's gonna be a long night
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight,
So call the neighbor kids,
The trash can lids,
With buckets on their heads,
Cause I'm telling you,
We're gonna need a little help tonight
Lyrics submitted by romanceonanapkin
Zombies Ate My Neighbors Lyrics as written by Joe Ginsberg Christopher Wayne Depew
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Ok so after hearing them come up in Stanley Lake and do plenty of interviews on it; the song is about a love gone phsyco with her being the zombie later referred to as her never having a heart anyways.
So it was a song to make him feel better after she apparently just went nuclear. I think I know what they mean >:(