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"
I'm trying to turn off, what is right for us
We don't give a fuck anyway
Don't try to steal imagination from us
Things we believe and we will never betray, never betray
Those who have the power to
Suck us dry, throw us away
Those who never could create
Destroy the music of today
Those devoid on any feeling
Those who make the compromise
Betray themselves to make a deal
Sell their souls at any price
Sounds without feeling, energy or aggression
From money hungry brains and not from the heart
Fortune, fame and glory are their obsessions
Salesmen, deaf to music, blind to art
No honesty, just sterility
A cautious sound they make without creativity
It's still the same as another age
When they took the words of truth and put them to the flame
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Some have eyes and still can't see
Their plastic noise is anything but music to me
Mechanized and computerized
Switch off your brain and make sounds that dehumanize
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Don't try to take our dreams away from us
We will never be like you
Love us or hate us, it doesn't matter to me
We don't want to be a part of this sick society
Those who have a passion to
Will never change our way of life
We may not think the way you do
But we know that we are right
Those who want to form a world
Of trends and monotony
Will have to do it without us
'Cause we always will be free
We don't give a fuck anyway
Don't try to steal imagination from us
Things we believe and we will never betray, never betray
Those who have the power to
Suck us dry, throw us away
Those who never could create
Destroy the music of today
Those devoid on any feeling
Those who make the compromise
Betray themselves to make a deal
Sell their souls at any price
Sounds without feeling, energy or aggression
From money hungry brains and not from the heart
Fortune, fame and glory are their obsessions
Salesmen, deaf to music, blind to art
No honesty, just sterility
A cautious sound they make without creativity
It's still the same as another age
When they took the words of truth and put them to the flame
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Some have eyes and still can't see
Their plastic noise is anything but music to me
Mechanized and computerized
Switch off your brain and make sounds that dehumanize
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Don't try to take our dreams away from us
We will never be like you
Love us or hate us, it doesn't matter to me
We don't want to be a part of this sick society
Those who have a passion to
Will never change our way of life
We may not think the way you do
But we know that we are right
Those who want to form a world
Of trends and monotony
Will have to do it without us
'Cause we always will be free
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Love Us or Hate Us Lyrics as written by Juergen Reil Trzebiatowski Joerg
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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