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"
Lucifer, you're landing
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
Barb-wire in the bathroom
I can't make new memories since
Flashbacks to the time
This shell-shocked apartment was the place
I met with your boy
It's a mortal thing, yeah, it's a mortal thing
Oh! He looked at me funny and a
Oh, oh! Think our secret's out and a
Oh-ooh-oh! I try to explain
But then munitions rain, and we're the epicentre
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
I fly through the walls
All pieces colliding and I
See Raymond apart
He's a-frowning now, wagging a finger at me
"Boy!" his knees bend the other way and
"Boy, boy!" are you guys together honey?
"B-b-boy!" oh but now I can't find his torso
Mm-hmm-hmm, I guess you're separated
(Oh)
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
(Monica I just wanna know)
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
Lights all failed
Lucifer, you're landing (oh I do believe it will be business inside)
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink (it's a real spanner into my works I think I kicked the bucket)
Baby's on the bullseye (I do believe it will be business inside)
I can't make new memories since, ..ries since, ..ries since
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
And now everybody gotta go hungry
And everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven't seen the body count lately
But looking at your faces it must have been bad
And if everybody answered their phonecalls
But people say the army's on fire
It's like we sitting with our parachutes on
When the airport's gone
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
Barb-wire in the bathroom
I can't make new memories since
Flashbacks to the time
This shell-shocked apartment was the place
I met with your boy
It's a mortal thing, yeah, it's a mortal thing
Oh! He looked at me funny and a
Oh, oh! Think our secret's out and a
Oh-ooh-oh! I try to explain
But then munitions rain, and we're the epicentre
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
I fly through the walls
All pieces colliding and I
See Raymond apart
He's a-frowning now, wagging a finger at me
"Boy!" his knees bend the other way and
"Boy, boy!" are you guys together honey?
"B-b-boy!" oh but now I can't find his torso
Mm-hmm-hmm, I guess you're separated
(Oh)
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
(Monica I just wanna know)
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
Lights all failed
Lucifer, you're landing (oh I do believe it will be business inside)
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink (it's a real spanner into my works I think I kicked the bucket)
Baby's on the bullseye (I do believe it will be business inside)
I can't make new memories since, ..ries since, ..ries since
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
'Cause he was looking at me like "Woah!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
When everything was coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
And now everybody gotta go hungry
And everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven't seen the body count lately
But looking at your faces it must have been bad
And if everybody answered their phonecalls
But people say the army's on fire
It's like we sitting with our parachutes on
When the airport's gone
Lyrics submitted by wrat
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