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’ve got a problem
And you’re not helping it
I’ve got a problem upstairs
I’ve got a problem
It’s locked in the basement
I’ve got a problem down there
People say it’s normal
But who decides what’s normal?
I don’t think it’s normal but it’s not wrong
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
Living life’s not easy (ohhhhh)
When you’re giving rides to monkeys
There’s fire in the cellar and the attic’s breaking down
But it’s something kinda simple
That I’m working hard at working out
And something kinda simple gets so hard
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
And when I lie awake at night they’re my best friends
‘cause I know they’ll never judge me
But I know they’ll never love me
So I’m having trouble drawing the line
Because everybody says it’s fine
And I don’t know if they’re wrong or if they’re right
But I’m addicted to animal crackers
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
And you’re not helping it
I’ve got a problem upstairs
I’ve got a problem
It’s locked in the basement
I’ve got a problem down there
People say it’s normal
But who decides what’s normal?
I don’t think it’s normal but it’s not wrong
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
Living life’s not easy (ohhhhh)
When you’re giving rides to monkeys
There’s fire in the cellar and the attic’s breaking down
But it’s something kinda simple
That I’m working hard at working out
And something kinda simple gets so hard
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers (animal crackers)
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
And when I lie awake at night they’re my best friends
‘cause I know they’ll never judge me
But I know they’ll never love me
So I’m having trouble drawing the line
Because everybody says it’s fine
And I don’t know if they’re wrong or if they’re right
But I’m addicted to animal crackers
I like to watch them do their thing
I’m addicted to animal crackers
I like to hear them sing
And throw their sweetness right on down the drain
Lyrics submitted by jaydo
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