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"
Divine inspiration
Total disillusion
Instant consecration
Mind and body fusion
Frontal assault
On the seven senses
Orgasmic waste
Eccentric and pretentious
KMFDM
Doing it again
A treat for the freaks
Truth or dare
Are you ready for this?
We don't care
Diefied dada
Hard but true
Godlike nonsense
Being thrown at you
We keep simple
Tough and outright
Easy to swallow
KMFDM light
KMFDM
Doing it again
A treat for the freaks
Truth or dare
How low can you go?
We don't care
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
(What we do for you, so good for you)
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
(What you do for me, so good for me)
X 2
One way or another, now or later
Bow down and worship the true creator
(Musik ist Macht
Eine ausgesprochene Verbindung von schlau und dumm
Geräuschsüchtigen wird unter immensem Druck und Leidenschaft größte Freude und Vertrauen abgesaugt
Der Heldenriff ist der Froschfresser
Der Rhythmus ein schöner Schwan
Die Worte ein Blutegel an deinem Gehirn
Keiner Macht für dich mehr)
Take a good plunge and out from the masses
Bend over backwards and kick some asses
(What we do for you, so good for you
What you do for me, so good for me)
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
(What we do for you, so good for you)
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
(What you do for me, so good for me)
KMFDM
Doing it again
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
Call 1-800 accept no imitation
KMFDM--one world, one nation
Total disillusion
Instant consecration
Mind and body fusion
Frontal assault
On the seven senses
Orgasmic waste
Eccentric and pretentious
KMFDM
Doing it again
A treat for the freaks
Truth or dare
Are you ready for this?
We don't care
Diefied dada
Hard but true
Godlike nonsense
Being thrown at you
We keep simple
Tough and outright
Easy to swallow
KMFDM light
KMFDM
Doing it again
A treat for the freaks
Truth or dare
How low can you go?
We don't care
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
(What we do for you, so good for you)
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
(What you do for me, so good for me)
X 2
One way or another, now or later
Bow down and worship the true creator
(Musik ist Macht
Eine ausgesprochene Verbindung von schlau und dumm
Geräuschsüchtigen wird unter immensem Druck und Leidenschaft größte Freude und Vertrauen abgesaugt
Der Heldenriff ist der Froschfresser
Der Rhythmus ein schöner Schwan
Die Worte ein Blutegel an deinem Gehirn
Keiner Macht für dich mehr)
Take a good plunge and out from the masses
Bend over backwards and kick some asses
(What we do for you, so good for you
What you do for me, so good for me)
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
(What we do for you, so good for you)
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
(What you do for me, so good for me)
KMFDM
Doing it again
In a world of deceit, open your eyes
Don't be afraid and you'll realize
Call 1-800 accept no imitation
KMFDM--one world, one nation
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I'm surprised no one has commented on this song yet. One of my favorites. It appears KMFDM is not all that popular at this site, bleh. I dislike the lines "What we do for you is so good for you, what you do for me is so good for me", it bothers after awhile. Besides that, great song!