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"
catching up in the basement that i call home.
dismantling discussions on a piss soaked telephone.
i'm all grown up. i've thrown up these feelings lots before. you're sitting in the park while i'm staring at the door enough self mutilation.
i've waterlogged and choked one hundred beers, another week ensconced in yellowsmoke
i'm no devil, i just have these demons keeping me awake, pushing on my go-leg, laughing at cut brakes. the corpse of my motivation hangs in the closet next to skeletons and(?)
Sleep all day, drink your life away its one step closer to the comfort of the grave. this coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass, rotting under yellow growing grass.
five in the chamber and i'm flying through the air.
i've tied my blindfold tightly, i'm cutting my hair.
i'm a bullet and a target, and i'm drenched in splattered blood.
i've learned my lesson one time but once isn't enough.
so dry your hands, wash 'em clean of me.
wave your victor's flag on your pile of debris
because when you die like a hero, you live like a slave.
i'd rather die to see it change than live and watch it stay the same where the corpses of my motivations hang on the gallows over-ripe with shit like colostomy bags (pie anyone?)
Sleep all day, drink your life away
its one step closer to the comfort of the grave.
this coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass, rotting under yellow growing grass.
there's a party in the woods
and a dance in city streets
and a rumble down the avenue of fifty thousand stomping feet.
and the fire is getting high, igniting sweaty powdered brows. and if he hasn't saved you yet,
he isn't gonna save you now,
Sleep all day, drink your life away
its one step closer to the comfort of the grave.
...and you're more beautiful than you were on the day that we first met. my angel of the not yet buried dead.
dismantling discussions on a piss soaked telephone.
i'm all grown up. i've thrown up these feelings lots before. you're sitting in the park while i'm staring at the door enough self mutilation.
i've waterlogged and choked one hundred beers, another week ensconced in yellowsmoke
i'm no devil, i just have these demons keeping me awake, pushing on my go-leg, laughing at cut brakes. the corpse of my motivation hangs in the closet next to skeletons and(?)
Sleep all day, drink your life away its one step closer to the comfort of the grave. this coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass, rotting under yellow growing grass.
five in the chamber and i'm flying through the air.
i've tied my blindfold tightly, i'm cutting my hair.
i'm a bullet and a target, and i'm drenched in splattered blood.
i've learned my lesson one time but once isn't enough.
so dry your hands, wash 'em clean of me.
wave your victor's flag on your pile of debris
because when you die like a hero, you live like a slave.
i'd rather die to see it change than live and watch it stay the same where the corpses of my motivations hang on the gallows over-ripe with shit like colostomy bags (pie anyone?)
Sleep all day, drink your life away
its one step closer to the comfort of the grave.
this coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass, rotting under yellow growing grass.
there's a party in the woods
and a dance in city streets
and a rumble down the avenue of fifty thousand stomping feet.
and the fire is getting high, igniting sweaty powdered brows. and if he hasn't saved you yet,
he isn't gonna save you now,
Sleep all day, drink your life away
its one step closer to the comfort of the grave.
...and you're more beautiful than you were on the day that we first met. my angel of the not yet buried dead.
Lyrics submitted by AsImMadeToSmile
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(?) ---> it has to be: '' bloody vampire fangs '' I love this song
you are correct. i don't even give three fucks that i'm seven years late on this reply.
This song starts out describing someone who just does not give a FUCK, but then shifts over to much deeper and meaningful subjects, such as going nowhere and messed up relationships. I love the brutal imagery of this song. It's awesome. I think everyone can relate to it in some way or another.
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