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"
Ding dong bell
It's Alice down the well
But how did she get in
Did she fall or did she swim?
My Cold War state has made my heart go shy
Ding dong bell, there's a pussy down the well
But I'm terrified of him
Too afraid to let him in
I might seem cold but my heart it's quite benign
So come close to me and put your hand in mine
Please quit your telepathy my dear
And put me out of my misery
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy now
Ding dong bell
It's Alice down the well
But now that she is in
Will she sink or will she swim?
Remain this coy, you will never get your boy
Ding dong bell
There's a pussy down the well
But once my cover's blown
The seeds can't be unsown
Oh, I've come so close yet still I fall apart
So come close to me and give me your heart
Please quit your telepathy my dear
And put me out of my misery
Could you set me free?
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy
Now
Yeah yeah
Oh, oh no
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you, you, you
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy
Now
It's Alice down the well
But how did she get in
Did she fall or did she swim?
My Cold War state has made my heart go shy
Ding dong bell, there's a pussy down the well
But I'm terrified of him
Too afraid to let him in
I might seem cold but my heart it's quite benign
So come close to me and put your hand in mine
Please quit your telepathy my dear
And put me out of my misery
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy now
Ding dong bell
It's Alice down the well
But now that she is in
Will she sink or will she swim?
Remain this coy, you will never get your boy
Ding dong bell
There's a pussy down the well
But once my cover's blown
The seeds can't be unsown
Oh, I've come so close yet still I fall apart
So come close to me and give me your heart
Please quit your telepathy my dear
And put me out of my misery
Could you set me free?
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy
Now
Yeah yeah
Oh, oh no
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you, you, you
Could you set me free
I'm in purgatory
You are my destiny
You put the world at my feet
All I wanna do with you
Is eat chips 'n gravy
Now
Lyrics submitted by bananahero
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