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 a Mayan, I am Orion hunting lions
Not even trying, I'm lying, Im just a guy who’s acting defiant
It's magnanimous, overwhelming, unanimous
Decision to grow cannabis isn't helping with Canada's
Recent decision to be less critical, I take a little pull
Move to California using medicinal
I know I've done a lot, I think I'm gonna stop (Why?)
I'm just a guy getting stuck up for Jager, wanna cop
[Chorus]
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe your phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, it's the 80's again
I wanna shave lines in my head
Oh no, it's the 80's again
The USSR is our friend
So last time around I went off the deep end
That winter weekend they took me away in my sheepskin
Was jumping around in a mirror with a hairbrush lip syncing
Said that I was drinking, my shirt was airbrushed
I wonder what my parents did with their aborted fun
And what these jeans look like with Jordan Ones
High school reunion, drunk at the auditorium
On eBay bidding on a DeLorean, why not?
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe my phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, it's the 80's again
We crashed the DeLorean
Oh no, it's the 80's again
In twenty years the worlds gonna end
Don't know where to go out west for tattoos
Who the fuck is into fluorescent track suits
Back in the 80's they just liked it from the future and crazy
Now here's the future, were just crazy and obsessed with the 80's
A ninja suit, a Katana, a Madonna lookalike insane
Ripping the Volkswagen emblem off a car for a chain
Make sure when you step outside and your skin singes
That your biological suit isn't vintage
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe your phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, its the 80's again
I just shaved lines in my head
Oh no, it's the 80's again
Oh no, it's the 80s again, etc
Not even trying, I'm lying, Im just a guy who’s acting defiant
It's magnanimous, overwhelming, unanimous
Decision to grow cannabis isn't helping with Canada's
Recent decision to be less critical, I take a little pull
Move to California using medicinal
I know I've done a lot, I think I'm gonna stop (Why?)
I'm just a guy getting stuck up for Jager, wanna cop
[Chorus]
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe your phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, it's the 80's again
I wanna shave lines in my head
Oh no, it's the 80's again
The USSR is our friend
So last time around I went off the deep end
That winter weekend they took me away in my sheepskin
Was jumping around in a mirror with a hairbrush lip syncing
Said that I was drinking, my shirt was airbrushed
I wonder what my parents did with their aborted fun
And what these jeans look like with Jordan Ones
High school reunion, drunk at the auditorium
On eBay bidding on a DeLorean, why not?
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe my phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, it's the 80's again
We crashed the DeLorean
Oh no, it's the 80's again
In twenty years the worlds gonna end
Don't know where to go out west for tattoos
Who the fuck is into fluorescent track suits
Back in the 80's they just liked it from the future and crazy
Now here's the future, were just crazy and obsessed with the 80's
A ninja suit, a Katana, a Madonna lookalike insane
Ripping the Volkswagen emblem off a car for a chain
Make sure when you step outside and your skin singes
That your biological suit isn't vintage
We don't know what we're drinking
We don't care what we're paying
We have so much to say and we don't know what we're saying
You don't know what Im thinking, I don't know what you're saying
Maybe your phones are tapped and they know what we're saying
Oh no, its the 80's again
I just shaved lines in my head
Oh no, it's the 80's again
Oh no, it's the 80s again, etc
Lyrics submitted by artslut, edited by GhostWriter666
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