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"
Mosquito armies are swarming my cabana
I gotta tell the manager
They must be wasted
From all my hatred and all that acid in my veins
Because I've got A.C.
But they still attack me
There's buzzing in my ears all night and day
And I can't fucking take it anymore
The roaches crawl out of the sewer and into my bed
And eat the lice right off my head
These flies are crazy
They carried off a baby
And they ate in on my loveseat
These bugs are such fragile things
But no matter how many I kill they're still winning
I try to hide
They won't stay outside
Is nothing sterile?
I can't fucking take it anymore
Ant nests are in my walls
And flea eggs are on the floor
I though I'd get so high
That all the bugs would cease to bug me
But that just made it worse
I close the windows and all the doors
The A.C. set to high cool
I light the bomb and lie down on my bed
Arms folded, one finger extended
I don't wanna use it
The bug bomb
It's poisonous to me
Who will it kill first?
It's like chemotherapy
I'm so glad I used it
They'll win in the end
But when the maggots come
They'll choke on my toxic ass
After all, how can't I hate something that eats me while I'm paralyzed
But I know what's going on
And feel every nibble on my dry encrusted eyeballs
Struggling only begins to make those nibbles feel like bandsaws
Now, mosquitoes are fluorescent blue
And riddled with diseases they don't have names for yet
Keep on taking those antibiotics
Things decompose faster here, I heard
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
But it's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to die
I gotta tell the manager
They must be wasted
From all my hatred and all that acid in my veins
Because I've got A.C.
But they still attack me
There's buzzing in my ears all night and day
And I can't fucking take it anymore
The roaches crawl out of the sewer and into my bed
And eat the lice right off my head
These flies are crazy
They carried off a baby
And they ate in on my loveseat
These bugs are such fragile things
But no matter how many I kill they're still winning
I try to hide
They won't stay outside
Is nothing sterile?
I can't fucking take it anymore
Ant nests are in my walls
And flea eggs are on the floor
I though I'd get so high
That all the bugs would cease to bug me
But that just made it worse
I close the windows and all the doors
The A.C. set to high cool
I light the bomb and lie down on my bed
Arms folded, one finger extended
I don't wanna use it
The bug bomb
It's poisonous to me
Who will it kill first?
It's like chemotherapy
I'm so glad I used it
They'll win in the end
But when the maggots come
They'll choke on my toxic ass
After all, how can't I hate something that eats me while I'm paralyzed
But I know what's going on
And feel every nibble on my dry encrusted eyeballs
Struggling only begins to make those nibbles feel like bandsaws
Now, mosquitoes are fluorescent blue
And riddled with diseases they don't have names for yet
Keep on taking those antibiotics
Things decompose faster here, I heard
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
But it's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to die
Lyrics submitted by joelm
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