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"
No switch in this dark, but you search anyway
This is the night, here in the day
One thing remains perfectly clear
It's the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Now you live in the world of the wave
And you scratch your name on the walls of the cave
Instincts never leave you perfectly clear
There's always a buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Marco Polo has lost his way
The Louisville Lip has nothing to say
One thing remains perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
(buzz buzz)
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
Custard Jack has lost his Mac
Captain Flash won't give it back
It seemed to them both perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Buffalo Bill, deprived of will
Chasing a hamburger down the hill
It seemed to him perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Adolf turned out very nice
Hannibal is afraid of mice
One thing remains perfectly clear
It's the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
(buzz buzz)
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
This is the night, here in the day
One thing remains perfectly clear
It's the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Now you live in the world of the wave
And you scratch your name on the walls of the cave
Instincts never leave you perfectly clear
There's always a buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Marco Polo has lost his way
The Louisville Lip has nothing to say
One thing remains perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
(buzz buzz)
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
Custard Jack has lost his Mac
Captain Flash won't give it back
It seemed to them both perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Buffalo Bill, deprived of will
Chasing a hamburger down the hill
It seemed to him perfectly clear
The buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Adolf turned out very nice
Hannibal is afraid of mice
One thing remains perfectly clear
It's the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear
Zee zee zee, zum zum
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
Zee zee zee, zum zum (buzz, buzz)
Buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
(buzz buzz)
(the buzz buzz, buzz buzz in the eardrum)
Lyrics submitted by Doc Strange
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