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"
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
I'm going from the garden with a gun
But you know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise and anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
All this peace just ached for the enemy
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
You know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Its not like me to leave a job undone
She said to me my mouth is open,
to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just ached for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
All you undisturbed cities don't you ever long for the enemy
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
Now we're in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom’s first time come
Your 8 letters spelling out the sun
Making sure that we're the only ones
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take!
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
But you know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Its not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise and anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
Now I’m in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom first time come
7 letters spelling out the sun
Its not like that we're the only ones
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
You know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
I’m in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom’s first time come
Your 3 letters spelling out the sun
Making sure that we're the only ones
She said to me my mouth is open to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
I'm going from the garden with a gun
But you know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise and anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
All this peace just ached for the enemy
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
You know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Its not like me to leave a job undone
She said to me my mouth is open,
to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just ached for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
All you undisturbed cities don't you ever long for the enemy
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
Now we're in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom’s first time come
Your 8 letters spelling out the sun
Making sure that we're the only ones
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take!
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
But you know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Its not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise and anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
Now I’m in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom first time come
7 letters spelling out the sun
Its not like that we're the only ones
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
Now I'm going from the garden with a gun
You know I don't want to hurt no one
Your eight letters spelling out the sun
Not like me to leave a job undone
What monks clink bottles like bells
We mouth the paradise anticipate hell
She said to me my mouth is open to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
I stare crazy at things I know you don't see
I'm gonna eat them up before they eat me
I am the secular Pentecost
Squeezing out the blue snake
I never count what I lost
Just what I take
I’m in the garden with a gun
Living in the kingdom’s first time come
Your 3 letters spelling out the sun
Making sure that we're the only ones
She said to me my mouth is open to show that I'm hungry
Or that peace just aches for the enemy
Lyrics submitted by mindstorma
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