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"
Don't fuck with me now, man
For i am Ahab
I stand over your bathtub
Please no longer ask of me
To throw in your radio when white rabbit peaks
I love you so
You fucking whore
i have cornered my whale
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
I love you so
You fucking whore
Please no longer ask of me
To partake in this tragedy this death
I love you so
Though i feel the pain of my missing member
The instrument of expression you have robbed of me
The violence of your silence, it is virulent
It exemplifies, it magnifies my inarticulation
I hold a speech impediment only liquid courage can cure
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
I love you so
You fucking whore
i shall corner my whale
"Joke not of questions past
I'm sorry for all of this"
And so I linger
You disappear
I shall find in time
I know not of the reason I'm here
Broken reflections, they never last
Yet you remain a portal to a silent past
Thoughts and longings
Are etched into time
i can go no longer
Wishing not that you are mine
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
And I hate you not
You fucking whore
i've lost sight of my whale
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
I love you so
You fucking whore
Some day soon, I will corner my whale
I require my member, my inarticulation
Don't fuck with me now, man
I am Ahab
For i am Ahab
I stand over your bathtub
Please no longer ask of me
To throw in your radio when white rabbit peaks
I love you so
You fucking whore
i have cornered my whale
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
I love you so
You fucking whore
Please no longer ask of me
To partake in this tragedy this death
I love you so
Though i feel the pain of my missing member
The instrument of expression you have robbed of me
The violence of your silence, it is virulent
It exemplifies, it magnifies my inarticulation
I hold a speech impediment only liquid courage can cure
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
I love you so
You fucking whore
i shall corner my whale
"Joke not of questions past
I'm sorry for all of this"
And so I linger
You disappear
I shall find in time
I know not of the reason I'm here
Broken reflections, they never last
Yet you remain a portal to a silent past
Thoughts and longings
Are etched into time
i can go no longer
Wishing not that you are mine
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
Drag me into the abyss
And I hate you not
You fucking whore
i've lost sight of my whale
I ride the crest of a beautiful wave
I prepare my descent
The wave breaks, and fall back slowly
I've become entangled in you
I love you so
You fucking whore
Some day soon, I will corner my whale
I require my member, my inarticulation
Don't fuck with me now, man
I am Ahab
Lyrics submitted by malcolmchaos7
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