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"
Watch with me as they crucify the idolater
Bury head in my shoulder when spilling blood and the certainty of a
Bloodthirsty deity is just another day in the life
Of the weak and blind and misled of the human kind
And of time that we assign to the finding of higher states of reality
What we get in return when the revelation is insanity?
Modern day Babylonian excess
But present still are morals and judging; they want ya head checked
The big heads think of the atheist
And the atheist of the faithful ya system in need of resets
Revert to default, the word is God
And his authority absolute so listen and nod
And on the other hand revel in beauty of evolution
Disorder and order are conducive to perfect union
A concept the adherents to monotheism can't conceive of
Due to a loving master condemning if they don't believe
I'm super critical of seemingly obvious hypocritical
And megalomaniacal characters
In a dusty old worn-out thousand-page book
On the bedside table of rundown hotel rooms, ha!
Do ya see where I'm coming from? In the blue corner!
Purveyor of logic and semiotics
In the red corner: braindead comics
Better check ya space 'cos I'm a comet on a collision course
Illuminating as I travel
Purpose to unravel the mysteries that we grapple with
And spit something other than babble unintelligible
And rabble-rouse the masses
The Dark Side demagogue in the house like "Whose house?!"
Yeah, "Poet's house! Say what?"
Just saying if you ain't spraying like ya know what's up
Then what's the point little pup? Yo, give it up
'Cos I'm in it to win it and I got plenty of clichés and references
I pay the cost to be the boss every day when I spit these rhymes
Without catharsis refreshing the blood lines, yeah
So now it's hot under the collar
Got no choice like Vader, gotta rock it like Noreaga
With the Hip Hop and it don't stop
Gotta get these thoughts free and until then
Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Walk With Me
Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Walk With Me
Bury head in my shoulder when spilling blood and the certainty of a
Bloodthirsty deity is just another day in the life
Of the weak and blind and misled of the human kind
And of time that we assign to the finding of higher states of reality
What we get in return when the revelation is insanity?
Modern day Babylonian excess
But present still are morals and judging; they want ya head checked
The big heads think of the atheist
And the atheist of the faithful ya system in need of resets
Revert to default, the word is God
And his authority absolute so listen and nod
And on the other hand revel in beauty of evolution
Disorder and order are conducive to perfect union
A concept the adherents to monotheism can't conceive of
Due to a loving master condemning if they don't believe
I'm super critical of seemingly obvious hypocritical
And megalomaniacal characters
In a dusty old worn-out thousand-page book
On the bedside table of rundown hotel rooms, ha!
Do ya see where I'm coming from? In the blue corner!
Purveyor of logic and semiotics
In the red corner: braindead comics
Better check ya space 'cos I'm a comet on a collision course
Illuminating as I travel
Purpose to unravel the mysteries that we grapple with
And spit something other than babble unintelligible
And rabble-rouse the masses
The Dark Side demagogue in the house like "Whose house?!"
Yeah, "Poet's house! Say what?"
Just saying if you ain't spraying like ya know what's up
Then what's the point little pup? Yo, give it up
'Cos I'm in it to win it and I got plenty of clichés and references
I pay the cost to be the boss every day when I spit these rhymes
Without catharsis refreshing the blood lines, yeah
So now it's hot under the collar
Got no choice like Vader, gotta rock it like Noreaga
With the Hip Hop and it don't stop
Gotta get these thoughts free and until then
Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Walk With Me
Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Walk With Me
Lyrics submitted by DarkSidePoet
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