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"
This telepathic hangover
Gnaws the nipples off my neck
When you suck off those machine guns
Now tell me mister, what do you expect?
I crawled through 60,000 yards
Of carnival graveyards
Witches with obscene riches
Chasing my mirage, chasing my mirage
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
If I sang instead of screamed
When you crushed me with your Corvette
Would you trade your jet for a microphone
And record the opera of deathbeds?
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
Stare into the gruesome lights all night and never see a fucking thing
We count weddings on our fingertips and wonder why our love's so cheap
Vegas, you're my dream unicorn
Summer, dress so apocalyptic
Vegas, you're my dream unicorn
Summer, dress so apocalyptic
In glossy treetops teens clap while they kiss
In neon pastures pin-ups hook to your chest
Out on the streets at night the money's well spent
And pissed-off babies turn to pissed-off children
Gnaws the nipples off my neck
When you suck off those machine guns
Now tell me mister, what do you expect?
I crawled through 60,000 yards
Of carnival graveyards
Witches with obscene riches
Chasing my mirage, chasing my mirage
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
If I sang instead of screamed
When you crushed me with your Corvette
Would you trade your jet for a microphone
And record the opera of deathbeds?
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
I'm the unicorn with tar teeth chewing spandex nightmares
My spine's a limousine that drives all night but never goes anywhere
Stare into the gruesome lights all night and never see a fucking thing
We count weddings on our fingertips and wonder why our love's so cheap
Vegas, you're my dream unicorn
Summer, dress so apocalyptic
Vegas, you're my dream unicorn
Summer, dress so apocalyptic
In glossy treetops teens clap while they kiss
In neon pastures pin-ups hook to your chest
Out on the streets at night the money's well spent
And pissed-off babies turn to pissed-off children
Lyrics submitted by Hykinix
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