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"
I wish you could've been a fly on the wall
When I was 12 years old
Crying over my homework
I would've slit my wrist if it wasn't for
Rock and roll
Rock and roll
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I put a curse on you
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
I'd rather be a dandy
Than another boring girl
With an acoustic guitar
With an acoustic guitar
Lemuria rising
Lemuria rising
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I mean what I say
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I mean what I say
In the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti
We do what we do
In the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti
We do what we do
Lois baby
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
I put a curse
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
When I was 12 years old
Crying over my homework
I would've slit my wrist if it wasn't for
Rock and roll
Rock and roll
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I put a curse on you
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
I'd rather be a dandy
Than another boring girl
With an acoustic guitar
With an acoustic guitar
Lemuria rising
Lemuria rising
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I mean what I say
In the spirit of Kenneth Anger
I mean what I say
In the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti
We do what we do
In the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti
We do what we do
Lois baby
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
Lois baby
This is for you
I think I'll call you
Virginia Woolf
I put a curse
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
I put a curse on you
Lyrics submitted by vacantskies
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