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"
Terry Anne was a rice cake
Hear head had nothing to do
Seventh son of a seventh son
River of Fu Manchu
Daffodils and pineless quills
Toad and eye of newt
Terry Ane, she loved them all
But nothing has the power of that claw
He contemplates his next moves
In squishy silence, he rides on
Terry Anne was a sumo fan
She had the master plan
Oil wrestling a one armed man
Doing a handstand
Clueless to the passenger
That rides inside of her
She ventures off to win that dance
Her powers are the result of that claw
I pistol whipped her in the jaw
Aftershave in her hidden cave
I hide my hideous claw
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Swivel, swivel, swivel, swivel
Competition, no inhibition
What's this crazy lady thinkin'?
She's wigglin', she's jigglin'
There's a gigolo a signalin'
Simple human beings will never understand the things I've seen
My claw creates entire races, pack them up and ship them places
Fools who try to use my claw will find the flaw
Resides in their own narrow sight, I'll kill them all
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Swivel, swivel, swivel, swivel
Fed up, Agent Embryo ripped Terry Anne in two
Slimy, passed out, spent little man lying in clear view
Onlookers were horrified by what they thought they saw
They figured she had given birth, but all Francois could focus on was that claw
The fetus wakes in anger
Realizing the claw is gone
Dance, dance, dance
Look at me dance
Claw, claw, claw
You stole my claw
Francois, Francois, Francois
He had it all
Hear head had nothing to do
Seventh son of a seventh son
River of Fu Manchu
Daffodils and pineless quills
Toad and eye of newt
Terry Ane, she loved them all
But nothing has the power of that claw
He contemplates his next moves
In squishy silence, he rides on
Terry Anne was a sumo fan
She had the master plan
Oil wrestling a one armed man
Doing a handstand
Clueless to the passenger
That rides inside of her
She ventures off to win that dance
Her powers are the result of that claw
I pistol whipped her in the jaw
Aftershave in her hidden cave
I hide my hideous claw
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Swivel, swivel, swivel, swivel
Competition, no inhibition
What's this crazy lady thinkin'?
She's wigglin', she's jigglin'
There's a gigolo a signalin'
Simple human beings will never understand the things I've seen
My claw creates entire races, pack them up and ship them places
Fools who try to use my claw will find the flaw
Resides in their own narrow sight, I'll kill them all
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Dance, dance, dance,
The two dance, dance
Swivel, swivel, swivel, swivel
Fed up, Agent Embryo ripped Terry Anne in two
Slimy, passed out, spent little man lying in clear view
Onlookers were horrified by what they thought they saw
They figured she had given birth, but all Francois could focus on was that claw
The fetus wakes in anger
Realizing the claw is gone
Dance, dance, dance
Look at me dance
Claw, claw, claw
You stole my claw
Francois, Francois, Francois
He had it all
Lyrics submitted by TheImpalerTMX
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