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 a Veronica
Back with a vengeance, back with a song
All you motherfuckers got it wrong
I'm the villain, I'm the one
I was born just to take you on
Open your eyes and step in the ring
Float like a butterfly, bee I sting
I'm like Snow White with a gun
I'll shoot you down, bang bang
You're done
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was gone?
So baby tell me, did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
I'm a Veronica
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
From my homeland to Hong Kong
By the time you'll find me I'll be gone
Bet you never thought I'd hit like that
Looks like hell, just got back
My best friend to my enemy
Oh woe is me, I'll take 'em one by one
And if you get in my face then you'll get a taste
Even God would want some
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
I'm a Veronica
I'm on mission to the stars
I'm a love child living life on Mars
I'm the next kid in line for the throne
Ascend as you let me
And I won't stop 'til I run this town
When the sick step down then I'll bring you out
'Cause if I'm not what you wanna be
Then boy step back up off of me
'Cause I don't need to follow you down
Yes I am so in demand
Don't know if I'm coming and going
If there's a glitch in your hitch bitch
While my empire keeps growing
Yes I am so in demand
Don't know if I'm coming and going
If there's a glitch in your hitch bitch
While my empire keeps growing
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was gone?
So baby tell me, did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
(Oh!)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
I'm a Veronica.
Back with a vengeance, back with a song
All you motherfuckers got it wrong
I'm the villain, I'm the one
I was born just to take you on
Open your eyes and step in the ring
Float like a butterfly, bee I sting
I'm like Snow White with a gun
I'll shoot you down, bang bang
You're done
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was gone?
So baby tell me, did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
I'm a Veronica
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
From my homeland to Hong Kong
By the time you'll find me I'll be gone
Bet you never thought I'd hit like that
Looks like hell, just got back
My best friend to my enemy
Oh woe is me, I'll take 'em one by one
And if you get in my face then you'll get a taste
Even God would want some
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
I'm a Veronica
I'm on mission to the stars
I'm a love child living life on Mars
I'm the next kid in line for the throne
Ascend as you let me
And I won't stop 'til I run this town
When the sick step down then I'll bring you out
'Cause if I'm not what you wanna be
Then boy step back up off of me
'Cause I don't need to follow you down
Yes I am so in demand
Don't know if I'm coming and going
If there's a glitch in your hitch bitch
While my empire keeps growing
Yes I am so in demand
Don't know if I'm coming and going
If there's a glitch in your hitch bitch
While my empire keeps growing
Did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was gone?
So baby tell me, did you miss me?
Did you really think that I was done?
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
(Oh!)
'Cause down under we don't take no prisoners
We don't take no prisoners
Ooh ooh (whistles)
I'm a Veronica.
Lyrics submitted by natvv, edited by iaz7515009
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