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"
She's a zombie baby
Dead ringer in my head
And now we're rollin'
We're empty playin'
Hey! Wow!
Hey, yeah, like a zombie breathin'
Hey, yeah, been thinkin' of you life
Hey, yeah, like a desert monkey
Hey, yeah, we go down inside
Wow! Like a creep or solar center
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, like your hands on my back and
Hey, yeah, be a bigman or bleed
Hey, yeah, like a days last moment
Hey, yeah, give me what I need
Wow! Like a baby sister
Wow! Ooh, a dark creep lover
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Yeah, get a load of this, gonna get away
One hell beast shot over me, yeah
Gonna bleed from like, a shrapnel wound
I wasn't made to suffer, huh!
Shootin' on the run, gonna wreck 'em
Yo, you can't just dump 'em
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, it's alone in my head
Hey, yeah, and I think of the past
Hey, yeah, I'm a dirty mouth
Hey, yeah, because I'm alive and
Wow! People's sole possession
Wow! Ooh, a dirty little witch
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Dead ringer in my head
And now we're rollin'
We're empty playin'
Hey! Wow!
Hey, yeah, like a zombie breathin'
Hey, yeah, been thinkin' of you life
Hey, yeah, like a desert monkey
Hey, yeah, we go down inside
Wow! Like a creep or solar center
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, like your hands on my back and
Hey, yeah, be a bigman or bleed
Hey, yeah, like a days last moment
Hey, yeah, give me what I need
Wow! Like a baby sister
Wow! Ooh, a dark creep lover
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Yeah, get a load of this, gonna get away
One hell beast shot over me, yeah
Gonna bleed from like, a shrapnel wound
I wasn't made to suffer, huh!
Shootin' on the run, gonna wreck 'em
Yo, you can't just dump 'em
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, it's alone in my head
Hey, yeah, and I think of the past
Hey, yeah, I'm a dirty mouth
Hey, yeah, because I'm alive and
Wow! People's sole possession
Wow! Ooh, a dirty little witch
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead
Yeah, yeah, yeah
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