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"
Oh! What joy! A child of our own...
Oooh, such a handsome child
With a fusebox smile
I think he's trying to speak now
But he's got nothing to say
He must have nothing to say.
Nothing, you say?
I cannot hate you.
Why should I bother?
I never felt anything anyway.
Dark in the bedroom
Why did you bother?
You never saw eachother,
why should you see me now?
The child can't do anything right.
Oh, why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
You took these eyes, set them in deep...
I just repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you reap.
You set this flesh up on these bones
...what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
Clean off this plastic baby.
I'm through with patience.
I'll wait no longer.
You never waited for me anyway.
This thing inside me,
it's growing stronger.
It's going to tear.
Tear until it sees the light of day.
The child can't do anything right.
But why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
Clean... the... mind...
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
I'm through with patience
I'll wait no longer
You never waited for me anyway.
This thing inside me
is growing stronger,
I'ts going to tear...
Tear until it sees the light of day.
The child can't do anything right.
But why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
You set these eyes deep in this face.
And I just repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
You put this flesh up on these bones.
I just repeat what you said.
Baby repeat what you said.
Make me repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
The story you told still rings in my head.
The young men came down,
down to the river, to wash their hands of the mud.
The young men came down,
down to the river, to wash their hands of the blood.
See all the young men come down,
after the stoning, to wash their hands of the mud.
To wash off the mud,
To wash off the blood.
Repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Women came down,
down to the lakeside, to wash their legs of the blood.
See all the women come down,
after the birthing, to wash their legs of the blood.
I saw the women go down,
down to the water, to wash their legs of the blood.
The blood... The blood.
You just repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Oh, just repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
You just repeat what you said.
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
Keep still Child.
I'm washing your insides away.
That's a good boy.
You know we love you.
Oooh, such a handsome child
With a fusebox smile
I think he's trying to speak now
But he's got nothing to say
He must have nothing to say.
Nothing, you say?
I cannot hate you.
Why should I bother?
I never felt anything anyway.
Dark in the bedroom
Why did you bother?
You never saw eachother,
why should you see me now?
The child can't do anything right.
Oh, why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
You took these eyes, set them in deep...
I just repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you reap.
You set this flesh up on these bones
...what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
Clean off this plastic baby.
I'm through with patience.
I'll wait no longer.
You never waited for me anyway.
This thing inside me,
it's growing stronger.
It's going to tear.
Tear until it sees the light of day.
The child can't do anything right.
But why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
Clean... the... mind...
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
I'm through with patience
I'll wait no longer
You never waited for me anyway.
This thing inside me
is growing stronger,
I'ts going to tear...
Tear until it sees the light of day.
The child can't do anything right.
But why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
You set these eyes deep in this face.
And I just repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
You put this flesh up on these bones.
I just repeat what you said.
Baby repeat what you said.
Make me repeat what you said.
I just repeat what you said.
The story you told still rings in my head.
The young men came down,
down to the river, to wash their hands of the mud.
The young men came down,
down to the river, to wash their hands of the blood.
See all the young men come down,
after the stoning, to wash their hands of the mud.
To wash off the mud,
To wash off the blood.
Repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Women came down,
down to the lakeside, to wash their legs of the blood.
See all the women come down,
after the birthing, to wash their legs of the blood.
I saw the women go down,
down to the water, to wash their legs of the blood.
The blood... The blood.
You just repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
Oh, just repeat what you said.
Repeat what you said.
You just repeat what you said.
Clean the mind off this plastic baby.
Keep still Child.
I'm washing your insides away.
That's a good boy.
You know we love you.
Lyrics submitted by BeautifulDisaster
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