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"
Oh, let me hit that, let me get that party song
Let me turn this place into another motherfuckin' danger zone
Oh, where the good ones? Where the good ones at right now yo?
We gonna talk this shit till we got this bitch rockin' on the rock ship
No shit, no hell, no way, I'm gonna chop this rock like blocks of clay
I'ma sink your ship so fast, one blast, don't ask, your ass is grass
No red no green, I'ma paint this black and crack your spleen
Comin' straight from the dark I'ma shark, I'ma rip your shit like a slasher scene
Yeah, gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Remember all them 90's things, them 90's hits we laced like this
Comin' to you live 2012 and hell there's still not shit like this
We still rain the blood in the club like Slayer flip it up like Limp Bizkit
Tie you up to electric chairs and toast them guts like nuts on Christmas
Never worry if anybody gonna like me, don't give a damn if anybody give a fuck
I'm gonna say what I want you can look it up, Wikipedia probably gonna fuck it up
I don't give a damn, 'cause it's on most people never last this long
Most people never find a way, but we gonna rock this motherfucker all night long
Yeah, gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Let me turn this place into another motherfuckin' danger zone
Oh, where the good ones? Where the good ones at right now yo?
We gonna talk this shit till we got this bitch rockin' on the rock ship
No shit, no hell, no way, I'm gonna chop this rock like blocks of clay
I'ma sink your ship so fast, one blast, don't ask, your ass is grass
No red no green, I'ma paint this black and crack your spleen
Comin' straight from the dark I'ma shark, I'ma rip your shit like a slasher scene
Yeah, gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Remember all them 90's things, them 90's hits we laced like this
Comin' to you live 2012 and hell there's still not shit like this
We still rain the blood in the club like Slayer flip it up like Limp Bizkit
Tie you up to electric chairs and toast them guts like nuts on Christmas
Never worry if anybody gonna like me, don't give a damn if anybody give a fuck
I'm gonna say what I want you can look it up, Wikipedia probably gonna fuck it up
I don't give a damn, 'cause it's on most people never last this long
Most people never find a way, but we gonna rock this motherfucker all night long
Yeah, gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
Gimmie the racket for the brain
Gimmie the funky shit to make the people go insane
Gimmie the fuckin' drug we call the music on this track
Gimmie the fuckin' riff we gonna use to break your back
Bring it back
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Best song on the album. Overall a nice comeback album.
yeah its pretty good. lyricwise it lacking.. alot of hype and the general "haters gonna hate"vibe from fred.. but the production and playing is solid.
I think this song is a big F U to the haters and losers who thought Limp Bizkit were dead.
The lyrics? On point. The riffs? Fire.
So if you ask me “did LB bring it back?”
I will say OH HELL YEAH