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"
Don't be afraid
Don't be ashamed
The body has needs
Surrender to the hunger
Got to let the body feed
Don't forget to breathe
The body has needs
No one is a stranger
Surrender to the hunger
Don't forget to breathe
Don't be ashamed
The body has needs
Surrender to the hunger
Got to let the body feed
Don't forget to breathe
The body has needs
No one is a stranger
Surrender to the hunger
Don't forget to breathe
Lyrics submitted by Kadoka
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Daddy Maynard is just telling us that breathing is important, don't look too much into it.
Vague enough to be about a lot of things yet distinct enough to convey an idea and or theme (as with most of MJK's lyrics). I think it could apply to sexual appetite or zombies; accompanying Milla in a Resident Evil movie.
When I first heard this, I mistook the lyric as "Surrender to the hole." I guess it wouldn't be that far-fetched coming from this band, and it does keep with one interpretation of the song.
Im pretty sure Maynard is criticizing celibacy and monogamy, telling listners to indulge in their instinctual feelings of sexual promiscuity.
eg. ("the body has needs") ("surrender to the hunger")
Maynard/Puscifer/APC/Tool always delivers great music, no exception here.
Oh, and anyone know if tool will be releasing a new album any time soon?