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 here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Now all I have to do
Is swim up after you
Convince you
To climb in too
Cut yourself first
They can smell your blood
From forty miles away
They'll be here in no time
They'll be here in no time
Pick the biggest, meanest motherfucker I'll
Climb inside
For you
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold, so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Oh yeah
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
Oh yeah
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Now all I have to do
Is swim up after you
Convince you
To climb in too
Cut yourself first
They can smell your blood
From forty miles away
They'll be here in no time
They'll be here in no time
Pick the biggest, meanest motherfucker I'll
Climb inside
For you
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold, so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Oh yeah
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
Oh yeah
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dont start insulting his intellegence! the belly of the shark is quite obviously literal, if you analyse the lyrics carefully you can see that it is about frank carter being stuck inside teh belly of theshark. the song could be based on a traumatic experience he had with sharks as a child or more simply could be inspired by jaws