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"
Oh, you're racist
Geez, that's neat
Get the fuck up out my face with that shit
Man let's beat
Your thoughts are ugly
They're not wanted
Aaaaaand they're dumb
See, its MCID and we try to spread love, but
Man, you make me want to take of my gloves, because
Guns don't kill people, white people, kill black people, with guns
Is it hard to hear?
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
Maybe one day
Love will conquer all
But in the mean time, uh
Oh, you're homophobic
Wow, what a bitch
I almost wanna blow your mind and just go suck a dick
I see you're clutching that cross pretty hard though
A lot of those motherfuckers are gay
Like in a "hide your kids" kind of way
And Jesus wasn't even white on his whitest days so
I guess you just went backwards from the Jump anyway
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
Maybe one day
Love will conquer all
But in the mean time, you can try to build your walls
Our generation
We're taking over
Hope we don't die with that
Chip on your shoulder
Maybe one day
Geez, that's neat
Get the fuck up out my face with that shit
Man let's beat
Your thoughts are ugly
They're not wanted
Aaaaaand they're dumb
See, its MCID and we try to spread love, but
Man, you make me want to take of my gloves, because
Guns don't kill people, white people, kill black people, with guns
Is it hard to hear?
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
Maybe one day
Love will conquer all
But in the mean time, uh
Oh, you're homophobic
Wow, what a bitch
I almost wanna blow your mind and just go suck a dick
I see you're clutching that cross pretty hard though
A lot of those motherfuckers are gay
Like in a "hide your kids" kind of way
And Jesus wasn't even white on his whitest days so
I guess you just went backwards from the Jump anyway
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
We're all equal
Except for you
'Cause you're an asshole, with an ugly point of view
And your insecurities
Can't you see, they're driving me insane
Maybe one day
Love will conquer all
But in the mean time, you can try to build your walls
Our generation
We're taking over
Hope we don't die with that
Chip on your shoulder
Maybe one day
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by BlueDiamondx3
Viper Strike Lyrics as written by Ryan Meyer Richard Charles Meyer Jr
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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