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"
You are beautiful, you are glorious
Now you're covered in loser dust
You are fabulous, you are gorgeous
Now you're covered in loser dust
And all the things I used to trust, yeah
All the things I'm about to crush
Your youth is gone, it's turned to rust
It's all covered in loser dust
Hey I loathe every inch of you
You're going down for what you love, hey
Every single particle you're going down for your loser dust
All the things you used to trust you're going down
I'm burnt out, I'm furious and look at you, you're embarrassing us
Descend, descend and go you must
Isolate the prize, give it one big flush
It's indiscreet, omnivorous
We won't call you and don't call us
And all that's sick with gloat and lust
And do call me I'm so serious
It's not an image it's just a way
You're going down for your final crush
Hey, nothing here can stop you with you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, I can't wait to see you go; you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, show me one thing I didn't know, you're going down.
Think fast baby, what is the rush?
The very thing you would never trust
The very thing you would never touch
It's all covered in loser dust
These women all around, obsessive cunts, file under miscellaneous
They're starving and carnivorous
I mustn't touch what I want so much
You, you make me nervous
You make me drunk
Do you have to grovel so very much?
It's so unfair, it's so unjust, it's just another witch-hunt
Broken, shattered, busted, yeah, you're going down for what you love
Hey, all the death it's just good, yeah
You're going down for your loser dust
Hey, oh just die in public babe
You're going down for your loser dust
Hey, in you lays a gutter yeah; you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, we can't wait to see you go, you're going down
Now you're covered in loser dust
You are fabulous, you are gorgeous
Now you're covered in loser dust
And all the things I used to trust, yeah
All the things I'm about to crush
Your youth is gone, it's turned to rust
It's all covered in loser dust
Hey I loathe every inch of you
You're going down for what you love, hey
Every single particle you're going down for your loser dust
All the things you used to trust you're going down
I'm burnt out, I'm furious and look at you, you're embarrassing us
Descend, descend and go you must
Isolate the prize, give it one big flush
It's indiscreet, omnivorous
We won't call you and don't call us
And all that's sick with gloat and lust
And do call me I'm so serious
It's not an image it's just a way
You're going down for your final crush
Hey, nothing here can stop you with you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, I can't wait to see you go; you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, show me one thing I didn't know, you're going down.
Think fast baby, what is the rush?
The very thing you would never trust
The very thing you would never touch
It's all covered in loser dust
These women all around, obsessive cunts, file under miscellaneous
They're starving and carnivorous
I mustn't touch what I want so much
You, you make me nervous
You make me drunk
Do you have to grovel so very much?
It's so unfair, it's so unjust, it's just another witch-hunt
Broken, shattered, busted, yeah, you're going down for what you love
Hey, all the death it's just good, yeah
You're going down for your loser dust
Hey, oh just die in public babe
You're going down for your loser dust
Hey, in you lays a gutter yeah; you're going down for your loser dust
Hey, we can't wait to see you go, you're going down
Lyrics submitted by deadweather
Loser Dust Lyrics as written by Courtney M. Love William Patrick Corgan
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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