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"
The sacrifice must be for
Some deity, babe I
Just can't get hard for reality
At least not mine
Your love charity is like
An immortal bleeding beast and here
Is it to motivate my heart to function?
This age is a bitch that burns our dreams so
Can only turn away
I wonder can I produce some of heat
To keep our experiment in our heart
I told you I could I couldn't cope
Seeing the disappointment in your eyes
Oh Nina, how can I defend myself against this world
That batters me like a retarding cartoon
It's too soon for salvation but that word is just a joke
Oh Nina, my whole system is chaos
I'm desperate for something but there's no human word for it
I should be happy but
What I feel is corrupted, broken, impotent and insane
Oh Nina, I have become so hateful
How am I ever going to survive this winter?
I can think of nothing but getting my revenge
Make those fuckers pray, not going to happen
And it's eating a hole in me
Eating a hole in me
It's eating a hole
Eating a hole
Eating a hole in me
In our heart and see each suffering repeat
Our soul concession to find dimension
I've inherited spiritual sanctions
For some old ancestral crime
It was committed long ago
But the punishment's absolved all down the family line
Everyone's so unstable on my mother's side
And emotionally barren on my father's side
But tell me how can I attempt to atone
For somebody else's willful ignorance?
Some deity, babe I
Just can't get hard for reality
At least not mine
Your love charity is like
An immortal bleeding beast and here
Is it to motivate my heart to function?
This age is a bitch that burns our dreams so
Can only turn away
I wonder can I produce some of heat
To keep our experiment in our heart
I told you I could I couldn't cope
Seeing the disappointment in your eyes
Oh Nina, how can I defend myself against this world
That batters me like a retarding cartoon
It's too soon for salvation but that word is just a joke
Oh Nina, my whole system is chaos
I'm desperate for something but there's no human word for it
I should be happy but
What I feel is corrupted, broken, impotent and insane
Oh Nina, I have become so hateful
How am I ever going to survive this winter?
I can think of nothing but getting my revenge
Make those fuckers pray, not going to happen
And it's eating a hole in me
Eating a hole in me
It's eating a hole
Eating a hole
Eating a hole in me
In our heart and see each suffering repeat
Our soul concession to find dimension
I've inherited spiritual sanctions
For some old ancestral crime
It was committed long ago
But the punishment's absolved all down the family line
Everyone's so unstable on my mother's side
And emotionally barren on my father's side
But tell me how can I attempt to atone
For somebody else's willful ignorance?
Lyrics submitted by rachelx3syou9
Ye, Renew the Plaintiff Lyrics as written by Kevin Barnes
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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These lyrics are kinda off
pretty sure it's "love cherry" not "love charity" and it's definitely "make those fuckers pay" not "make those fuckers pray"
that being said, this song is just him being angry for how he's never been truly happy and never truly satisfied with his life because he always thinks about how he and Nina's relationship and his personal life could be better. Maybe because of his indie fame he thinks he is now a cartoon of himself, which I guess he really kind of is. This song has some of the best lyrical work this side of the 70s, definitely the highlight of the album and maybe of his career.
Agree with the lyric interpretations corrected here, but as far as meaning goes, I mean, isn't that EVERY oM song? lol There's just a lil something extra to each other than the same ol same ol. And here it is wrestling with karma and the mysterious places it comes from because it doesn't come back hardly ever from where it was put in initially. The last line sums it all up.
I think that honestly, especially with the last part, and the part about Nina, it might have something to do with us Americans ignorantly being sexually mutilated so that we cannot feel the loving sensations of sex as easily as women or a sexually complete male, not to mention the unconscious psychological trauma. I just found this out today and I am beyond sickened. quranicpath.com/misconceptions/intact_sex.html