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"
and students the thing to remember about church and state is...
you gotta keep em seperated!!
don't try to pray in the classroom
you can't be spreading your faith
they trun our classroom into an athiest vacuum
while they're seperating church from state
they can't stand God so they took Him out
started back in 62 and look at us now
they warn that government and God just don't mix
you're gonna have to stop, have to stop, have to stop,have to stop, hey!
hey man, you talkin about your faith? take him out!
you got to keep em seperated!
hey! there's been a rise
in murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray!
now it's sex, drugs, and violence
the american way
crumble the morals and the government fails
once God's ousted, it's a matter of fate
we're going down the same path as others before
everyone from sadam to the USSR
they never ever see til it's finally too late
you gotta find your own hope, find your own hope, find your own faith!
hey man is this what's left for me? where to now?
you gotta keep em motivated!
hey! when they all grow up to be criminals
you gotta keep em incarcerated!
hey! hope you don't mind
murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray
one two three four
the moral is the same because it's happened before
go to second Chronicals and turn to the Lord
in 7 verse 14 He says
if My people pray
they're finally gonna know hope, finally know hope, finally know faith
hey man! there's nothing to believe
where to now?
you gotta keep em educated!
Hey! and the kids grow up to be
Animals
you gotta keep em all sedated!
hey! hope you don't mind
murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray!
you gotta keep em seperated!!
don't try to pray in the classroom
you can't be spreading your faith
they trun our classroom into an athiest vacuum
while they're seperating church from state
they can't stand God so they took Him out
started back in 62 and look at us now
they warn that government and God just don't mix
you're gonna have to stop, have to stop, have to stop,have to stop, hey!
hey man, you talkin about your faith? take him out!
you got to keep em seperated!
hey! there's been a rise
in murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray!
now it's sex, drugs, and violence
the american way
crumble the morals and the government fails
once God's ousted, it's a matter of fate
we're going down the same path as others before
everyone from sadam to the USSR
they never ever see til it's finally too late
you gotta find your own hope, find your own hope, find your own faith!
hey man is this what's left for me? where to now?
you gotta keep em motivated!
hey! when they all grow up to be criminals
you gotta keep em incarcerated!
hey! hope you don't mind
murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray
one two three four
the moral is the same because it's happened before
go to second Chronicals and turn to the Lord
in 7 verse 14 He says
if My people pray
they're finally gonna know hope, finally know hope, finally know faith
hey man! there's nothing to believe
where to now?
you gotta keep em educated!
Hey! and the kids grow up to be
Animals
you gotta keep em all sedated!
hey! hope you don't mind
murder, rape, teenage pregnancies, and suicides
hey! come out and pray!
Lyrics submitted by samfrenzy15
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they have a point , schools in america are going downhill and yeah they are a parody band like weird al, why can't christians have the same thing?
I'm not sure, believe the actual lyrics should be "Everyone from SODOM to the USSR". As in, the city God utterly destroyed for its immorality.