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"
All through the scandal
of the small town scene
I always handle
you like to think my spirit is weak
I thought you knew I thought you knew,
it was gonna be this way
I guess I thought that
cuz I told you every day
I know you're tryin' to suck my soul
Oh
well I'm sick of the chinks and I'm sick of the bars
I'm sick of the sea and blows to the stars
I'm sad yea its getting me mad
hah, I'm tired of you pulling on me
It makes you look foolish and you can't see
that its weak just stand on your feet
get your arms off my shoulder
and get a little older you
wait life's a creep it's a good life with me so take me
but you cannot, cannot suck my soul, no
check it out
well, the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
But I promise you,
I promise you I will not do what I want to anyway
you're out of love
cuz the souls that you suck
you're nothin so I say
make peace with me cuz I'm sure that you'll see that its
no big deal to me
I wish you the best
move on and test without me
Or someone like me
cuz you cannot suck my soul
Oh
well you know the time
you always are tryin'
to flip your wings
and make you not lyin
its love its always the same
it's human dexterity too keep open eyes
its true it happened to you
its sad to be talkin
while others do the walkin to the Promised Land
the way that you creep
makes you look like a yeast so tell me
But you cannot, cannot suck my soul no, no
Cuz the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
check it out
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
of the small town scene
I always handle
you like to think my spirit is weak
I thought you knew I thought you knew,
it was gonna be this way
I guess I thought that
cuz I told you every day
I know you're tryin' to suck my soul
Oh
well I'm sick of the chinks and I'm sick of the bars
I'm sick of the sea and blows to the stars
I'm sad yea its getting me mad
hah, I'm tired of you pulling on me
It makes you look foolish and you can't see
that its weak just stand on your feet
get your arms off my shoulder
and get a little older you
wait life's a creep it's a good life with me so take me
but you cannot, cannot suck my soul, no
check it out
well, the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
But I promise you,
I promise you I will not do what I want to anyway
you're out of love
cuz the souls that you suck
you're nothin so I say
make peace with me cuz I'm sure that you'll see that its
no big deal to me
I wish you the best
move on and test without me
Or someone like me
cuz you cannot suck my soul
Oh
well you know the time
you always are tryin'
to flip your wings
and make you not lyin
its love its always the same
it's human dexterity too keep open eyes
its true it happened to you
its sad to be talkin
while others do the walkin to the Promised Land
the way that you creep
makes you look like a yeast so tell me
But you cannot, cannot suck my soul no, no
Cuz the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
check it out
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
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i love listening to this song when i'm mad
he's pissed off some dbag is trying to use him when he clearly sees what theyre doing