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"
When love was fresh
Like a web we'd mesh
Nothing felt better than your flesh
Against my flesh
One fatal slip
One rip, a tear
Touch me now and every single hair
On my body stands on end.
So don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
In the darkest corners of my mind
You creep
Underneath my pillow at night
When I sleep
Those hands I once
Longed to feel...
I want to squash them under
My hell.
So don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
I never thought it would end this way
I never thought I'd see the day
I never thought I'd hear myself say
Don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
Like a web we'd mesh
Nothing felt better than your flesh
Against my flesh
One fatal slip
One rip, a tear
Touch me now and every single hair
On my body stands on end.
So don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
In the darkest corners of my mind
You creep
Underneath my pillow at night
When I sleep
Those hands I once
Longed to feel...
I want to squash them under
My hell.
So don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
I never thought it would end this way
I never thought I'd see the day
I never thought I'd hear myself say
Don't touch me anymore
'Cause it feels like spiders
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me
Like spiders;
Like spiders all over me.
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woah, talk about dramatic. awesome lyrics though, don't you think? "those hands i once longed to feel, i wanna squash them under my heel"
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