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"
Kristoff Krane
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
Sadistik
And I cannot control the ways and way that I was made
When I am weathered from the weather that's been chasing me away
And I have prayed and I have heard all of the words that have been said
They have been played inside my head and tried to keep my mind awake
Kristoff Krane
I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume
(How far, how far, how far does this reach?)
Sadistik
How far does this mandible reach with this flesh from my friends in these cannibal teeth
That I chew and swallow the few who choose to follow me
Its a human model this is just what animals eat (lets feast)
Until the end of our days you'd make the toast I'd forget what to say
But shoot when I'm close to the sense of our prey
Before my circle of friends gets me bent out of shape
Kristoff Krane (Sadistik)
This is what I'm running from, this is what I'm running from
Hitting on the queen if it means I'm reaching 21
(I'm thunderstruck) Kiss of death (You can pucker up)
Just because I'm feeling down doesn't mean that something's up
I consume, I consume (till I'm ruined and blue in the face)
No more room I cocoon it's so new (get used to the taste)
I feel so incomplete I heal until I feel the need
To bleed all over you so we can (bloom in the fumes of our waste)
Just because you cannot (see it) doesn't mean it isn't (there)
Justice never stands for (freedom) with a cause to play it (fair)
So this one goes to all the (voices) in my head and all the (choices)
I regret and all the (voices) I am just aware
Of the trapdoor so I stare into the glass
Step over the tracks I left before I cared about the past
I'd rather share what's on my plate and cut it in half
Than shove my black hole with all the pieces before I pass (out)
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
It's a hollow feast when the hunted prey
Sadistik
And I cannot control the ways and way that I was made
When I am weathered from the weather that's been chasing me away
And I have prayed and I have heard all of the words that have been said
They have been played inside my head and tried to keep my mind awake
Kristoff Krane
I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume, I consume
(How far, how far, how far does this reach?)
Sadistik
How far does this mandible reach with this flesh from my friends in these cannibal teeth
That I chew and swallow the few who choose to follow me
Its a human model this is just what animals eat (lets feast)
Until the end of our days you'd make the toast I'd forget what to say
But shoot when I'm close to the sense of our prey
Before my circle of friends gets me bent out of shape
Kristoff Krane (Sadistik)
This is what I'm running from, this is what I'm running from
Hitting on the queen if it means I'm reaching 21
(I'm thunderstruck) Kiss of death (You can pucker up)
Just because I'm feeling down doesn't mean that something's up
I consume, I consume (till I'm ruined and blue in the face)
No more room I cocoon it's so new (get used to the taste)
I feel so incomplete I heal until I feel the need
To bleed all over you so we can (bloom in the fumes of our waste)
Just because you cannot (see it) doesn't mean it isn't (there)
Justice never stands for (freedom) with a cause to play it (fair)
So this one goes to all the (voices) in my head and all the (choices)
I regret and all the (voices) I am just aware
Of the trapdoor so I stare into the glass
Step over the tracks I left before I cared about the past
I'd rather share what's on my plate and cut it in half
Than shove my black hole with all the pieces before I pass (out)
Lyrics submitted by muzak
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