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"
Pump the brakes,
You're a red-flag, red light
Holdin' up a stop sign
I'll never be sloppy seconds
Go ahead, take them back,
Your one, two, three minutes
All you do is take, take,
Takin' off the little
Got more goin' on
I'd rather be eating glass,
Stick hot needles in my eyes,
Go ahead and tap that ass
Draw them up,
Yeah like there's candy girl
I ain't tryin'a connect
Or paint a picture
I'm not in it, never will be
You can't be me, get your freak on,
You can suck it, they've all seen it
And you liked it, now who wants it?
Cotton candy sugar high
Break your bones
When you come down
You're a one trick,
My trick pony who's next to hop on
Ride, ride, ride
'Bout to bring a blood spill
We've both been there,
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Back to bring up what's real
We've both been there
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Pump the brakes,
You're a red-flag, red light
Holdin' up a stop sign
I'll never be sloppy seconds
Go ahead, take them back,
Your one, two, three minutes
All you do is take, take,
Takin' off the little
Got more goin' on
I'd rather be eating glass,
Stick hot needles in my eyes,
Go ahead and tap that ass
Draw them up,
Yeah like there's candy girl
I ain't tryin'a connect
Or paint a picture
I'm not in it, never will be
You can't be me, get your freak on,
You can suck it, they've all seen it
And you liked it, now who wants it?
Cotton candy sugar high
Break your bones
When you come down
You're a one trick,
My trick pony who's next to hop on
Ride, ride, ride
'Bout to bring a blood spill
We've both been there,
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Back to bring up what's real
We've both been there
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
You're a red-flag, red light
Holdin' up a stop sign
I'll never be sloppy seconds
Go ahead, take them back,
Your one, two, three minutes
All you do is take, take,
Takin' off the little
Got more goin' on
I'd rather be eating glass,
Stick hot needles in my eyes,
Go ahead and tap that ass
Draw them up,
Yeah like there's candy girl
I ain't tryin'a connect
Or paint a picture
I'm not in it, never will be
You can't be me, get your freak on,
You can suck it, they've all seen it
And you liked it, now who wants it?
Cotton candy sugar high
Break your bones
When you come down
You're a one trick,
My trick pony who's next to hop on
Ride, ride, ride
'Bout to bring a blood spill
We've both been there,
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Back to bring up what's real
We've both been there
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Pump the brakes,
You're a red-flag, red light
Holdin' up a stop sign
I'll never be sloppy seconds
Go ahead, take them back,
Your one, two, three minutes
All you do is take, take,
Takin' off the little
Got more goin' on
I'd rather be eating glass,
Stick hot needles in my eyes,
Go ahead and tap that ass
Draw them up,
Yeah like there's candy girl
I ain't tryin'a connect
Or paint a picture
I'm not in it, never will be
You can't be me, get your freak on,
You can suck it, they've all seen it
And you liked it, now who wants it?
Cotton candy sugar high
Break your bones
When you come down
You're a one trick,
My trick pony who's next to hop on
Ride, ride, ride
'Bout to bring a blood spill
We've both been there,
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
Back to bring up what's real
We've both been there
What's the next stop? I won't sit still
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@brett10155 Yep, could be. "Go ahead and take 'em back, your one, two, three minutes". Probably it refers to the typical song duration of three minutes.
from the fingers of SOFI herself:
Pump the brakes, you're a red-flag red light holdin' up a stop sign. I'll never be sloppy seconds Go ahead and take 'em back, your one, two, three minutes All you do is take, take, takin' off, the little that you got on, goin' on, I'd rather be eating glass Stick hot needles in my eyes, go ahead and tap that ass Straw dumb blonde, brown licorice candy girl, I iz Dot connector, paint a picture I'm not in it, never will be Nope cant be me, get your freak on You can suck it, they've all seen it And you liked it, now he wants it Cotton candy suga high Break your bones when you come down You're a one-trick, mind trick, pony Who's next to hop on the ride, ride, ride... Back to bring-a-booksville We've all been there, what's the next stop? I won't sit still back to bring-a-booksville We've all been there, whats the next stop I wont sit still
i like it
Eww. Deadmau5's worst, for sure.
fuck you too this songs fucking awsome