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"
Snuff the punk
I'm gettin' tired of you chump
Bass in your face
You'll get a taste fo the P.O.D. funk
When I say punk or chump I don't mean you
Talkin' 'bout the devil and his crew
Check me out
You came to rob and steal from the helpless
Warriors in Christ we stand up for the defenseless
So can you get with this, then please step to this
And if you say yes, sign the P.O.D. checklist
This is a spiritual war, we take no prisoners
Live a life of sin, you don't know what you're getting into
You picked a winner, love the sinner, hate the sin dude
We got a plan, understand, here's what we're gonna do
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff 'em, snuff 'em
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff 'em, snuff 'em
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
P.O.D. hit me one more time for those that don't be known
Merrily, merrily, merrily, down the streams is how I'm flowin'
Keep goin' don't stop, all props to my pops
P.O.D. the gospel, the gospel, that rocks
Rock you, we did it, I think it's time to quit it
And when my king is speaking, yo you better take a seat kid
The shield of God ain't nothin' gonna hurt me
And like too ruff, we're gettin' down and dirty
I told you once before homie, this is the real deal
No time to win your soul, it's too late, we gotta steal it
Blinded by ignorance, use some common sense
It's too close to the end to be walking on the fence
Rough so tough, God challenged my bluff "G"
I thank the Lord the day he snuffed a punk like me
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
I'm gettin' tired of you chump
Bass in your face
You'll get a taste fo the P.O.D. funk
When I say punk or chump I don't mean you
Talkin' 'bout the devil and his crew
Check me out
You came to rob and steal from the helpless
Warriors in Christ we stand up for the defenseless
So can you get with this, then please step to this
And if you say yes, sign the P.O.D. checklist
This is a spiritual war, we take no prisoners
Live a life of sin, you don't know what you're getting into
You picked a winner, love the sinner, hate the sin dude
We got a plan, understand, here's what we're gonna do
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff 'em, snuff 'em
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
Snuff 'em, snuff 'em
Snuff the punk, snuff the punk
P.O.D. hit me one more time for those that don't be known
Merrily, merrily, merrily, down the streams is how I'm flowin'
Keep goin' don't stop, all props to my pops
P.O.D. the gospel, the gospel, that rocks
Rock you, we did it, I think it's time to quit it
And when my king is speaking, yo you better take a seat kid
The shield of God ain't nothin' gonna hurt me
And like too ruff, we're gettin' down and dirty
I told you once before homie, this is the real deal
No time to win your soul, it's too late, we gotta steal it
Blinded by ignorance, use some common sense
It's too close to the end to be walking on the fence
Rough so tough, God challenged my bluff "G"
I thank the Lord the day he snuffed a punk like me
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Snuff the punk, P.O.D. snuff the punk
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Snuff the Punk Lyrics as written by Mark Traa Daniels Marcos Curiel
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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