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"
They knew all along
They're not dumb, they were so wrong
She's not always fun
Hate it now, call when I'm done
Pieces fell in place
Puzzles suck, laugh in my face
Turn and swing the pace
I'll give this, keep the good waist
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Crazy TV dreams might be true
Not what it seems
Food and cavities, chewing words
Tear at the seams
He don't feel so good, don't feel bad
Not that he should
I don't feel so good, don't feel bad
Not that I should
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Did you ever listen? Did you ever listen?
Did you ever listen? Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Did you ever listen? Did you ever listen?
Did you ever listen? Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out
They're not dumb, they were so wrong
She's not always fun
Hate it now, call when I'm done
Pieces fell in place
Puzzles suck, laugh in my face
Turn and swing the pace
I'll give this, keep the good waist
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Crazy TV dreams might be true
Not what it seems
Food and cavities, chewing words
Tear at the seams
He don't feel so good, don't feel bad
Not that he should
I don't feel so good, don't feel bad
Not that I should
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Did you ever listen? Did you ever listen?
Did you ever listen? Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Head is on, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Metronome, I want out
I'm alone and I'm an easy target
Did you ever listen? Did you ever listen?
Did you ever listen? Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out, get out
Get out, get out
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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the song was first recorded in 1991, so it's not likely that these ideas are correct. it could maybe be about grohl's stint in scream. also, 'head is on' could be referring to the drum head.
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