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"
One nation under the gun
Where forward thinking is shunned
A morbid tradition
Of archaic value systems
Where violence justified
Is just another pride
Under the surface lies
A holy plastic empire
With guarded golden fences
Where misfortune
Shelters decisions
A pain wrought from blood flowing green
The myth of protection
Is a sick fascination
A culture of violence is what you are feeding
Fear is an heirloom
And hate is contagious
A nation of sadists is what you are breeding
It's everywhere
It's everywhere that you see
But who decides
If you watch or turn the other cheek
And only in your mind
Is it your given right to be armed to the teeth
It's a common disease
The only immunity is to disarm
This holy plastic empire disease
Where forward thinking is shunned
A morbid tradition
Of archaic value systems
Where violence justified
Is just another pride
Under the surface lies
A holy plastic empire
With guarded golden fences
Where misfortune
Shelters decisions
A pain wrought from blood flowing green
The myth of protection
Is a sick fascination
A culture of violence is what you are feeding
Fear is an heirloom
And hate is contagious
A nation of sadists is what you are breeding
It's everywhere
It's everywhere that you see
But who decides
If you watch or turn the other cheek
And only in your mind
Is it your given right to be armed to the teeth
It's a common disease
The only immunity is to disarm
This holy plastic empire disease
Lyrics submitted by ricoetc
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Soooo GOoD. The world is "kill crazy" and I hate it too.
I don't necessarily agree with the political inferences in this song, but our world is plagued by violence ad I think thats the message they're trying to get across. It doens't sound like they're in favor of gun control, which is what I thought when I first heard the song, but they're more or less talking about violence in general.
I think you got it backwards... I think it's talking about how the police can hide behind their guns... Second to last line- The only immunity is to disarm I think that says quite a bit.
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maybe its a pro-gun song :P
In my opiniion. It's a song about how much violence is influenced today.
Its clearly about the sickness and depravity of Conservative Ameri(k)an culture. Like patriot virus.
I think it's got something to do with anti-war and the conservative mindset
well conservative and anti-war are complete opposites. but i think it is about how the world is just a bit to violent and we need to disarm in order to achieve peace not just keep blowing the shit out of eachother.
This songs one of my favorite darkest hour songs
and Its about how violence is ruining the world and how disarming is a big step to world peace.
Which I agree with, Violence is really stupid