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"
my systems down
got an overload of hate
got a bad additude
i dont intend to change
ive had my fill
ive put my cards on the table
won't take it back
cause today i hate everything
i hate it all
hate my friends
hate this song
hate this bad additude
im sure youll hate it too
but i dont care
you know why? (why?)
cause when its over then you die (die)
no makin friends today
cause i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
trees hate the birds and the bees
got a sick fuckin mind
and no time for your kind
ill say again
lest i still question my friends
ill smile tomorrow
cause today i hate everything
i got a chip on my shoulder
and a monkey on my back
got a lot of things to say
and i think im gonna crack
cant buy a smile
off the worlds happiest man
no huggin trees today
cause i hate everything.
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck
i hate it all
i hate the winter, summer, spring,
i hate the fall
i hate the world, the birds
the flowers and the squirrels
i said before that today i hate everything
i got an itch i cant scratch
all these people on my back
make me sick
theyre all pricks
and your mother turns tricks
so bother me even
when i dont care what you say
dont need a hug
cause today i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck you... y'know what i mean.
got an overload of hate
got a bad additude
i dont intend to change
ive had my fill
ive put my cards on the table
won't take it back
cause today i hate everything
i hate it all
hate my friends
hate this song
hate this bad additude
im sure youll hate it too
but i dont care
you know why? (why?)
cause when its over then you die (die)
no makin friends today
cause i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
trees hate the birds and the bees
got a sick fuckin mind
and no time for your kind
ill say again
lest i still question my friends
ill smile tomorrow
cause today i hate everything
i got a chip on my shoulder
and a monkey on my back
got a lot of things to say
and i think im gonna crack
cant buy a smile
off the worlds happiest man
no huggin trees today
cause i hate everything.
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck
i hate it all
i hate the winter, summer, spring,
i hate the fall
i hate the world, the birds
the flowers and the squirrels
i said before that today i hate everything
i got an itch i cant scratch
all these people on my back
make me sick
theyre all pricks
and your mother turns tricks
so bother me even
when i dont care what you say
dont need a hug
cause today i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck you... y'know what i mean.
Lyrics submitted by alk3girl
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Great version of a great song,
i hate everything cept this song.... so fuckin great. i couldnt find lyrics for this so i listened to the song and typed them... the only part i wasnt sure of was the "ill say again lest i still question my friends" part. i dunno. great song though.
This is just a really awesome and over all bad ass song! It is just something to listen to get rid of anger.
it's 'must i still question my friends'
this is a really good song, i can relate to it a lot.
Why would a band that writes so many songs about how hate is terrible write a song like this? It sounds like hypocrasy to me. Quote from one of their songs ". . .till we put away out hate and we open our eyeys." Does anybody else see the irony here? Don't get me wrong, I love the Suicide Machines music (especially "destruction by definition") and i like their lyrics a lot, but not the lyrics in this song.
I think it's a joke song. I mean "I hate the squirrels?" It doesn't seem like it should be taken seriously to me.
I think the hate that the machines refer to in other songs is the hate against other people for color of their skin, ethnicity, gender, whatever.
but come on, everybody has their bad days and just hates everything and everyone and wants to be alone. i see no hypocrasy in being human.
I agree with 'rancidrocks' as I noticed that too. Their music sounds diferent as well as their message. Although, they're either being cynical and it's written from someone elses point of view, or it's the hate he feels towards the government, his boss, the machine, how futile life is, people with the same attitude as him etc....
Such a great song when you're pissed off and need to blow off steam. Actually, I really enjoy it when I'm in a great mood, too.
As other people pointed out the aparent hypocracy of this song compared to other songs of theirs, I'd say first it's probably not that same kind of hate and second that it could easily just be irony / sarcasm. I like it either way...
this song defines me
Actually, just to reinforce what I said before... I noticed that after the chorus, you can hear him scream "Fuck hate!" So I reckon by singing this song, they are just being ironic. He say's he hates everything... but be hates hate too.