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"
Torture chambers, secret passageways, vats of acid, and deadly vaults
Guess who's back?
Damn, it feels good to be back
I'm having a relapse
How the hell did he manage to get more felony charges?
He's already got life in jail, now what the hell is his problem?
Well, to be honest the smell of these chronic
leaves make me hella demonic
They compelled me to kill this elderly man and
I get these panic attacks
Pop a Xanax, relax
Tryin' to stick my fuckin' dick inside a mannequin's ass
Then I get manic depressed, see the orthodontist
Get gassed, man it's kick-ass
The first thing I put on is the mask
Speaking of masks, man it ain't too late
to have a change of pace and take it off and show my face
so you can see the things you facin'
Slice you up and cook you after you're murdered by strangulation
That's bacon souffle you makin', ain't you?
Well thank you, Jason
There goes one more coma due to blunt force trauma
Just give me one more soma and I'll be done for, mama
Go in the damn broom closet
Another Valium, lost it
Shovin' the vacuum nozzle down the bathroom faucet
It seems like every day I get a little flakier
The medication is making my hands a little shakier
Hand me that eighteen month-old baby to shake him up
It'll only take me a second to choke his trachea
Breakin' his neck in eighty-some places
Baby he's Shady comes lady
He's got the razor ba-blades
and the ch-ch-chain-s-saw, baby
You b-b-blundering, bumbling, m-m-mumbling dum-dums
Yeah, here I come come
You hear the rumbling? VRUM VRUM!
There's something inside of that blue ? and that drum drum
My head and torso of someone, where'd it come from?
Who's it belong to? Maybe the girl with the long blonde
hair who disappeared and left her cheerleader pom-poms
Clearly there's something wrong cause she didn’t come home
She’s missing, where is she? Something fishy is going on
I guess he stuck the bitch with the pitchfork with the long prongs
Now everybody get your dance on to my dance song, come on
Guess who's back?
Damn, it feels good to be back
I'm having a relapse
How the hell did he manage to get more felony charges?
He's already got life in jail, now what the hell is his problem?
Well, to be honest the smell of these chronic
leaves make me hella demonic
They compelled me to kill this elderly man and
I get these panic attacks
Pop a Xanax, relax
Tryin' to stick my fuckin' dick inside a mannequin's ass
Then I get manic depressed, see the orthodontist
Get gassed, man it's kick-ass
The first thing I put on is the mask
Speaking of masks, man it ain't too late
to have a change of pace and take it off and show my face
so you can see the things you facin'
Slice you up and cook you after you're murdered by strangulation
That's bacon souffle you makin', ain't you?
Well thank you, Jason
There goes one more coma due to blunt force trauma
Just give me one more soma and I'll be done for, mama
Go in the damn broom closet
Another Valium, lost it
Shovin' the vacuum nozzle down the bathroom faucet
It seems like every day I get a little flakier
The medication is making my hands a little shakier
Hand me that eighteen month-old baby to shake him up
It'll only take me a second to choke his trachea
Breakin' his neck in eighty-some places
Baby he's Shady comes lady
He's got the razor ba-blades
and the ch-ch-chain-s-saw, baby
You b-b-blundering, bumbling, m-m-mumbling dum-dums
Yeah, here I come come
You hear the rumbling? VRUM VRUM!
There's something inside of that blue ? and that drum drum
My head and torso of someone, where'd it come from?
Who's it belong to? Maybe the girl with the long blonde
hair who disappeared and left her cheerleader pom-poms
Clearly there's something wrong cause she didn’t come home
She’s missing, where is she? Something fishy is going on
I guess he stuck the bitch with the pitchfork with the long prongs
Now everybody get your dance on to my dance song, come on
Lyrics submitted by flamebroiledchicken
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