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"
You are enemy
You are my hated enemy
I am enemy
Number one rated enemy
I'm labeled enemy
I am your mortal enemy
My actions, enemy
Make me your bitter enemy
All the world around enemy, ow-ow
They're tearing up the ground enemy, ow-ow
They're drawn in by the sound, enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy
Your people, enemy
My people's hated, enemy
What are you? Enemy
Though a created enemy
I terminate the enemy
Eradicate the hated enemy
I am an enemy
My very greatest enemy
All the world around enemy, ow-ow
They're tearing up the ground enemy, ow-ow
They're drawn in by the sound, enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy
So, you try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to kill life
You try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to kill life
You try to tell me you love life
Then find another way to kill
You try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to ki-, ow
Wanting, love life
Needing, kill life
Wanting, love life
Needing, kill life
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
You try to tell me that you love life (enemy)
Then find another way to kill life (enemy)
You try to tell me that you love life (enemy)
Then find another way to ki-, ow (enemy)
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-e-e-) enemy
You are my hated enemy
I am enemy
Number one rated enemy
I'm labeled enemy
I am your mortal enemy
My actions, enemy
Make me your bitter enemy
All the world around enemy, ow-ow
They're tearing up the ground enemy, ow-ow
They're drawn in by the sound, enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy
Your people, enemy
My people's hated, enemy
What are you? Enemy
Though a created enemy
I terminate the enemy
Eradicate the hated enemy
I am an enemy
My very greatest enemy
All the world around enemy, ow-ow
They're tearing up the ground enemy, ow-ow
They're drawn in by the sound, enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, ow-ow
Enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy
So, you try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to kill life
You try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to kill life
You try to tell me you love life
Then find another way to kill
You try to tell me that you love life
Then find another way to ki-, ow
Wanting, love life
Needing, kill life
Wanting, love life
Needing, kill life
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
You try to tell me that you love life (enemy)
Then find another way to kill life (enemy)
You try to tell me that you love life (enemy)
Then find another way to ki-, ow (enemy)
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-) enemy
(E-e-e-e-e-e-) enemy
Lyrics submitted by spitfirek7
Conflict Lyrics as written by Dan Donegan Mike Wengren
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According to Dave Douiman, this song discourages people from looking for an enemy to fight against.
This song is about the inner part in all of us that always wants to have a conflict.
i think that David is talking about getting rid of that part of himself.
the song isn't about him in a conflict with another but with himself.
I agree. It's an angry song yet its rather insightful. I still believe that Manson probably pulled the wings off butterflies and chewed the tails off small lizards, but sometimes his messed-up self does make some sense.
@FloridaGuy Personally I always thought of this song as an inner conflict too.