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 cannot take the take, your condition was nod awake
A selfish crier, boldface liar, robbing all of what you could take in
Stabbed towards a death, a dirty smelling girl
Shit decisions, no provisions, filling veins with juice of chaos
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
I broke your fucking mold, then threw away the cast
New religion and new provisions, it's amazing you're alive
Drop the needle and stop what you're changing into
Erase the end dissolving, disgrace is needed more
So I mended severed ties, through flesh we cauterized
The undeserving, sliming, writhing, I filled you up with watered promise
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
Spitting teeth, oral lust, alley fuck, angel dust, anal whore, bleeding knees
It's times like this to pray for murder
So now I've seen it all
Hells' wrath
No man has greater glory, glory
Cause now, now, now, now you're living through me
So I'm done with saving you, a gift unto myself
A tired savior, a wasted favor, and I'm lucky I'm alive
Drop the needle and stop what you're changing into
I broke your fucking mold, then threw away the cast
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
Spitting teeth, oral lust, alley fuck, angel dust, anal whore, bleeding knees
It's times like this to pray for murder
So now I've seen it all
Hells' wrath, Hells' wrath
No man has greater glory, glory
Cause now, now, now, now you're living through me
A selfish crier, boldface liar, robbing all of what you could take in
Stabbed towards a death, a dirty smelling girl
Shit decisions, no provisions, filling veins with juice of chaos
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
I broke your fucking mold, then threw away the cast
New religion and new provisions, it's amazing you're alive
Drop the needle and stop what you're changing into
Erase the end dissolving, disgrace is needed more
So I mended severed ties, through flesh we cauterized
The undeserving, sliming, writhing, I filled you up with watered promise
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
Spitting teeth, oral lust, alley fuck, angel dust, anal whore, bleeding knees
It's times like this to pray for murder
So now I've seen it all
Hells' wrath
No man has greater glory, glory
Cause now, now, now, now you're living through me
So I'm done with saving you, a gift unto myself
A tired savior, a wasted favor, and I'm lucky I'm alive
Drop the needle and stop what you're changing into
I broke your fucking mold, then threw away the cast
Painted face, olive drab, swollen hole, empty bag, sunken eyes, whining dog
It's times like this you should pray for never
Spitting teeth, oral lust, alley fuck, angel dust, anal whore, bleeding knees
It's times like this to pray for murder
So now I've seen it all
Hells' wrath, Hells' wrath
No man has greater glory, glory
Cause now, now, now, now you're living through me
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