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"
Come lay it down, (won't you)
Come burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Lay it down (won't you)
Burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Life-affirming and our spiritual trust
Lay it down (won't you)
Burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu
Lost 100
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
People still ask, "when will armageddon begin?"
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Do we ever have enough?
When we see that blue dove
Do we ever have enough?
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where no one's been
No one's been
Come lay it down, (won't you)
Come burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground
(Yeah)
Come burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Lay it down (won't you)
Burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Life-affirming and our spiritual trust
Lay it down (won't you)
Burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground (won't you)
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu
Lost 100
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
People still ask, "when will armageddon begin?"
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love
You don't know what this love is all about
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Do we ever have enough?
When we see that blue dove
Do we ever have enough?
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where no one's been
No one's been
Come lay it down, (won't you)
Come burn it down (can't you)
Lay it down, (the guns) above the ground
(Yeah)
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