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"
Shape shifting high and a haunting eye
Falling plastic and paper demons!
No trace of time I'm branded sly
I am you ghost master baby free me!
All you know is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
All you know is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
My sinister sounds sweep the grounds
Still born I lie beneath it
I throw it away the freaks all stay
Deformed and laughing screaming!
All you know, is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
All you know, is alone
You love my Phantom Stranger!
A wretched heart in the dark decay, dominate forever
Destroy the things you and see if I remember
All you know, is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
Down you go, all alone
You love my Phantom Stranger!
Falling plastic and paper demons!
No trace of time I'm branded sly
I am you ghost master baby free me!
All you know is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
All you know is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
My sinister sounds sweep the grounds
Still born I lie beneath it
I throw it away the freaks all stay
Deformed and laughing screaming!
All you know, is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
All you know, is alone
You love my Phantom Stranger!
A wretched heart in the dark decay, dominate forever
Destroy the things you and see if I remember
All you know, is alone
You see a Phantom Stranger!
Down you go, all alone
You love my Phantom Stranger!
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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My favorite Zombie song. :)
The more I read the lyrics to this song, the more I think it is about a character in the Dragonlance series of books. His name is Raistlin Majere, and the references to being sly, destroying things that are loved, and the freaks (Live Ones) really fit him.
While I don't think the song was meant to be about Raistlin, I kind of agree...it would seem like the song way be about him in an off sort of way...
Could be that last one (Rob doesn't strike me as a Dungeons and Dragon kinda guy, cool as that idea is), though looking at it he could be writing about himself. "Shapeshifting high and a haunted eye" if you've ever seen Rob's artwork, both of those lines apply to it, usually strangely metaporphosed demons and other haunting figures. The second verse speaks of sinister sounds sweeping the grounds (which Rob does indeed make) though he's not really famous. A lot of people know his name, but he doesn't get mobbed like Ozzy or KoRn, so he kind of lies beneath his own fame. He throws away everything that made him famous, but still his fans stay. This is kinda repeated in the third verse, where he destroyed the things we love (White Zombie and their musical style), but sure of his fans loyalty ad his own skill that he won't need to cling to his old glory, or "see if I remember".
I am not sure what the song is about but I just found out the other day that The Phantom Stranger is a comic book charachter I think you can find it on wikipedia
Does anyone know what the latin in the very beginning means? If indeed it's latin at all? I've always been curious about that.
The part in the beginning is indeed Latin. I'm not sure of what it says, but I do know that it is a funeral rite performed on one's grave before being buried.
Rob Zombie not a D&D kind guy? LOL!
The beginning of the song is a 300+ year old Latin requiem read durning the burial of murder victims:
Latin:
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant anima eius et animae omnium fidelium defunctorum per misericordium dei requiescant in pace.
English:
Rest eternal grant them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. To rest the being and the soul, wholly faithful in death, in the prescence of mercy may they rest in peace.
Just wanted to correct ajdimarc...<br /> The latin part of the song is from the Catholic latin requiem for the dead.<br /> <br /> The first 2 lines are translated correctly, however, the last line in that bit is actually: <br /> "Anima eius et animae ominium fidelium defunctorum per Die misericordiam requiescant in pace."<br /> <br /> Which means:<br /> "May his soul, and the souls of all the departed faithful, by god's mercy, rest in peace."