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"
Maybe once and maybe came away
I took a quarter of your wishes
Fed them all aside
The weaker of the fortune's mystery
Hasn't yet all appeared to me
But then I never wanted more than 3
Shade's know any reason
Blame's are all I see
Her allergy's been forsaken maybe
Stir it all on at me
So it seems and so it's came away
Might be the voicings frighten
And so it's gotten me
The weaker of the fortune's mystery
Has finally pissed indeed
Indeed, made it for the eve
Shade's know any reason
Flames are all I see
Hala-tease been forsaken maybe
Stirin all on a lee
Now they're gonna burn me
Make all my flesh away'd
Real green turnin half ball shakin
Leave me, horror day.
I took a quarter of your wishes
Fed them all aside
The weaker of the fortune's mystery
Hasn't yet all appeared to me
But then I never wanted more than 3
Shade's know any reason
Blame's are all I see
Her allergy's been forsaken maybe
Stir it all on at me
So it seems and so it's came away
Might be the voicings frighten
And so it's gotten me
The weaker of the fortune's mystery
Has finally pissed indeed
Indeed, made it for the eve
Shade's know any reason
Flames are all I see
Hala-tease been forsaken maybe
Stirin all on a lee
Now they're gonna burn me
Make all my flesh away'd
Real green turnin half ball shakin
Leave me, horror day.
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I'm pretty sure the line here as "Has finally passed indeed" is actually "Has finally pissed it deep."
There's a lot of occultic symbolism in this song, but I've never been sure what the song is about. Lots of talk of judgement. . .obviously, whatever has happened to leave who ever "she" is forsaken, the speaker thinks he's going to be blamed, physically, morally, and mystically.
I'm pretty sure that more than half these lyrics are not what Buzzo's actually saying.
Unfortunately, I don't know what Buzzo's saying and I don't know any online site that has official lyrics. Usually I think Melvins songs aren't about lyrics just about the sound of the vocals. At the Stake is one of my favorite Melvins songs. The chorus is real heavy but the important thing is the way he draws in his breath before it begins.
I guess it's probably about the general concepts of judgement and punishment.
flames are all i see now they're gonna burn me make all my flesh away
Wow, 3 comments on such a great song? I love the guitar part at the end. The continuous riff. Such A good song.
I've always loved this song, it was actually the song that got me to really look into the Melvins after having semi-listened to them a while. There's something about this song, a dark atmosphere, something beyond the lyrics when you just read them here. Read straight forward as the lyrics are here (if they're right at all) they seem to be about the burning of witches or something of the sorts, but i don't know, there's something more i think.
these are the wrong lyrics for sure. Buzzo enjoy's taunting us through riddle rather than mainstream
Read other Melvins lyrics. I agree with whoever else said it's not about the lyrics. HOWEVER. This song obviously talks about judgment and punishment... and centers around witches.
I also hear Flames are all I see and Now they're gonna burn me Take all my flesh away...
BUT. I don't think it's so much he's shrouding the song in mystery as that he's just saying some minacing-ass stuff to lend to the furious/distraught nature of the song.
Forgive my spelling.
Joan of Arc burned at the stake. You're welcome.