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"
Calling me high on the telephone
Came by plane all alone
Spend the afternoon making a speech
Speech made you nervous that you couldn't eat
You came to show your mad love
You came to tell it's not enough
Come and erase me and take me with you
Kiss me, I'm drunk, don't worry it's true
I want to show you how mad is my love
Come and attack me, it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me, if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
You knew my ideas when they were in my head
They were my secret evening plans
Wine then bed then more then again
Wine then bed then more then again
Run run run, to make your heart shake
Kiss kiss kiss will make this earth quake
I'm gonna get what I'm willing to take
This gotta worth the miles you made
Come back, I'll warm you up
Make me breakfast, I'll make it up
You are so talented, I'm in love
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
I'm back with a smack, and I'm ready to attack
Stare at my lips and see they were wet
I know how you're doing by looking at your pants
And this is how we call it a comeback
Screaming your name on the microphone
Going back home all alone
Listen to the tunes that you sent to me
Listen to them good company
I want to show my mad love
You have to know it's not enough
Come and complete me, stay here with me
This is all true, it's water I drink
I want you to show me how mad is your love
Come and attack me, it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me, if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
Came by plane all alone
Spend the afternoon making a speech
Speech made you nervous that you couldn't eat
You came to show your mad love
You came to tell it's not enough
Come and erase me and take me with you
Kiss me, I'm drunk, don't worry it's true
I want to show you how mad is my love
Come and attack me, it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me, if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
You knew my ideas when they were in my head
They were my secret evening plans
Wine then bed then more then again
Wine then bed then more then again
Run run run, to make your heart shake
Kiss kiss kiss will make this earth quake
I'm gonna get what I'm willing to take
This gotta worth the miles you made
Come back, I'll warm you up
Make me breakfast, I'll make it up
You are so talented, I'm in love
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
I'm back with a smack, and I'm ready to attack
Stare at my lips and see they were wet
I know how you're doing by looking at your pants
And this is how we call it a comeback
Screaming your name on the microphone
Going back home all alone
Listen to the tunes that you sent to me
Listen to them good company
I want to show my mad love
You have to know it's not enough
Come and complete me, stay here with me
This is all true, it's water I drink
I want you to show me how mad is your love
Come and attack me, it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me, if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen Death From Above
Lyrics submitted by a town like paris, edited by Stockholm
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so are they referencing the two piece death from above (1979) or the dance label?
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