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 after the fucking smoke clears and the dust settles,
we're left with one mission, defending the families name.
We planted our flag years ago and staked our claim.
This ain't mall metal made for little bitches,
this is war metal made for vendettas.
The new breed: Billy Club Sandwich, Everybody Gets Hurt, Sworn Enemy and the mighty, mighty Irate.
So right now I'ma see how far I can shove this underground shit up your ass bitch.
Step up,
You Cowards, Fucking Criminals
Step up, Step Up to Me
Rise Up Avengers, Rise Up
Defend the Family
X2
We will not be broken by a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
I’ve got beef with you putas using our name for your own damn gain it’s a damn shame.
Your music it makes me sick.
You sound like some faggots gagging on Korn’s dick.
You think you could fuck with me, I’ll beat you musically then physically.
Straight out the Bronx, New York,
I got mine, son, step up and get yours.
Step up,
You Cowards, Fucking Criminals
Step up, Step Up to Me
Rise Up Avengers, Rise Up
Defend the Family
X2
Don’t even try to plead your case bitch, it's got more holes than your fucking face.
You’re against establishment but for sponsorship you’ll suck a corporate dick.
So fuck you and your crew, your fans, your friends and all your family too.
I’m ashamed to be your dad and right now you're making me mad yeah you're making me want to
Jump right on a plane, fly first class just to beat your ass and fly home again.
You’re entering a world of pain and I don’t back down when someone fucks with my family.
You should have been a man about this.
Recognized that we pre-exist.
But you took the shady route
And now I’m here to call you out bitch.
Coward,
Criminal,
Fake ass,
Wannabe.
You better step up (punk).
Lyrics submitted by Candidate.
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Candidate said it perfectly i went and listened to traitors after reading that they fuckin suck dick Irate is pure brutality, thats wat metals all about
dude, are you kidding me? Irate is HARDCORE not metal, so they can't be what metal's all about, right?<br /> Hardcore was Hardcore Punk in the beginning. but they evolved in some sort of totally independend style of music