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"
Hands stay clean till the well go dry
The clutch kinda sticks right
Aim for the sky
And let a few fly
In due time, gonna get right
There's no loose ties
I'm not the new guy
I'm just one hand at twelve'o'clock
The other one stirs your melting pot
And if I had a third hand
I'd use it to turn up the music
Louder
You like to complain, huh
You gonna hide 'till the rain comes?
Feel my shine, I'm the same son
No matter what I've done
I remember where I came from
The flood made the neighborhood messy
But you've got the keys to the Chevy
Have to drive, until the afterlife
So we can steal the feast
Out of the Beast's belly
We ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Tell her that the devil got a price to pay
Letter by letter all I'm trying to say
That we ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Rock solid, head held high
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
One wheel for the clock that we live within
I feel like your father, discipline
It's unconvincing when I tell them that hell
Ain't nothing but a place in Michigan
Two wheels in the gutter, engine reving
I feel like your mother, listen, suggestion
Don't test if you're really not a threat
If my crew get fresh, take you all the way to heaven
Honesty stinks a little
It's cause it comes from deep inside you
It's covered in blood and bile
And it tastes so self-entitled
And you can keep a wood stake in the trunk
On the off chance that the fairy tales ain't bunk
And I'mm save a bottle of that funk
To get motel parking lot balcony crunk
A true fiend would hit the screen
Halfway there tryna live the dream
Cops with lights shining in my face
'Cause my names not attached to these license plates
Freedom is a paperweight
But you can't explain that to an inmate
So I'mma keep rolling past these mile markers
And I'mma deliver this flame to the fire starters
We ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Tell her that the devil got a price to pay
Letter by letter all I'm trying to say
That we ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Rock solid, head held high
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
The clutch kinda sticks right
Aim for the sky
And let a few fly
In due time, gonna get right
There's no loose ties
I'm not the new guy
I'm just one hand at twelve'o'clock
The other one stirs your melting pot
And if I had a third hand
I'd use it to turn up the music
Louder
You like to complain, huh
You gonna hide 'till the rain comes?
Feel my shine, I'm the same son
No matter what I've done
I remember where I came from
The flood made the neighborhood messy
But you've got the keys to the Chevy
Have to drive, until the afterlife
So we can steal the feast
Out of the Beast's belly
We ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Tell her that the devil got a price to pay
Letter by letter all I'm trying to say
That we ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Rock solid, head held high
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
One wheel for the clock that we live within
I feel like your father, discipline
It's unconvincing when I tell them that hell
Ain't nothing but a place in Michigan
Two wheels in the gutter, engine reving
I feel like your mother, listen, suggestion
Don't test if you're really not a threat
If my crew get fresh, take you all the way to heaven
Honesty stinks a little
It's cause it comes from deep inside you
It's covered in blood and bile
And it tastes so self-entitled
And you can keep a wood stake in the trunk
On the off chance that the fairy tales ain't bunk
And I'mm save a bottle of that funk
To get motel parking lot balcony crunk
A true fiend would hit the screen
Halfway there tryna live the dream
Cops with lights shining in my face
'Cause my names not attached to these license plates
Freedom is a paperweight
But you can't explain that to an inmate
So I'mma keep rolling past these mile markers
And I'mma deliver this flame to the fire starters
We ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Tell her that the devil got a price to pay
Letter by letter all I'm trying to say
That we ain't gonna die today
Right now I'm wide awake
Rock solid, head held high
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Right now I'm wide awake
Hands stay clean 'till the well go dry
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ooh yeah! that's a good angry song!
Great work, glad someone took the time to put this one up. One of my favs for sure.<br /> <br /> Some corrections on what I think the lyrics are:<br /> "SWARM of locusts"<br /> "my temper's TEMPERATURE sky rockets"<br /> "I STARE AT you in contempt"<br /> <br /> Oh and since this is a song meaning site. I think it's about the narrator hating himself, obviously. But not enough to kill himself ("I'd shoot you in your face if I thought it would relieve the tension"). <br /> <br /> I don't think it's an esteem issue, it's probably just due to some personality flaw or vice he can't control that is directly affecting him.
Great work, glad someone took the time to put this one up. One of my favs for sure.<br /> <br /> Some corrections on what I think the lyrics are:<br /> "SWARM of locusts"<br /> "my temper's TEMPERATURE sky rockets"<br /> "I STARE AT you in contempt"<br /> <br /> Oh and since this is a song meaning site. I think it's about the narrator hating himself, obviously. But not enough to kill himself ("I'd shoot you in your face if I thought it would relieve the tension"). <br /> <br /> I don't think it's an esteem issue, it's probably just due to some personality flaw or vice he can't control that is directly affecting him.