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"
Anti-log can’t be stopped like Bavaro from Tecmo.
I whistle Koji Kondo while you listen to techno.
I never played a game that I can’t defeat.
Got Nintendo thumb while you got soars from spanking your meat.
You never stood a chance and you know that you’re whack son.
I’m the first person to TKO Tyson.
Sign up for lessons, I get paid by the hour.
I should be a consultant for Nintendo Power.
I be throwing words of God, driven heathens away, gawt!
I never lose a bass 'cause my fishing rod stays hot.
Ice climbing, grabbing carrots,
Perfect timing, no demerits.
Bitch I’m a natural,
Actual factual.
I see you at the arcade,
You gettin' played.
Name the game, the time, the place,
I'll throw your ass into a maze, bitch!
You came in boasting, now you’re crawling away.
You felt the wrath of the Le-Frost, Deep Blue aka.
I just cashed in a ten, and got a roll of quarters.
Won a high score on this game? Just place your order.
See my initials on the screen, they be S-T-D.
You can beat that game, but you can’t beat me.
'Cause I’m an old school fool and you know I’m cool,
Because I skate all day in a backyard pool.
I did a burnt and a handplant and got some air,
And did a big old grab while they sat and stared.
I can beat Shadowgate in 22 minutes
Without ever kicking the bucket once.
I can kick anybody's butt in MKIII
And that goes for all you chumps.
I can drink a whole bottle of whiskey
And straight up conquer Ninja Gaiden II.
I’m the master of 2-D fighting games
And you a Tetris playing fool.
I can kill Rygar in ten to twelve hits,
Because I know how to build my tone.
Don’t need no password for Castlevania 2
Because I’m straight falling into the zone.
Get all the items I need, while I’m smoking some weed
Because it’s all second nature to me.
Just like driving a car, I hit the dragon with a star
And grab the talisman; follow my lead.
I whistle Koji Kondo while you listen to techno.
I never played a game that I can’t defeat.
Got Nintendo thumb while you got soars from spanking your meat.
You never stood a chance and you know that you’re whack son.
I’m the first person to TKO Tyson.
Sign up for lessons, I get paid by the hour.
I should be a consultant for Nintendo Power.
I be throwing words of God, driven heathens away, gawt!
I never lose a bass 'cause my fishing rod stays hot.
Ice climbing, grabbing carrots,
Perfect timing, no demerits.
Bitch I’m a natural,
Actual factual.
I see you at the arcade,
You gettin' played.
Name the game, the time, the place,
I'll throw your ass into a maze, bitch!
You came in boasting, now you’re crawling away.
You felt the wrath of the Le-Frost, Deep Blue aka.
I just cashed in a ten, and got a roll of quarters.
Won a high score on this game? Just place your order.
See my initials on the screen, they be S-T-D.
You can beat that game, but you can’t beat me.
'Cause I’m an old school fool and you know I’m cool,
Because I skate all day in a backyard pool.
I did a burnt and a handplant and got some air,
And did a big old grab while they sat and stared.
I can beat Shadowgate in 22 minutes
Without ever kicking the bucket once.
I can kick anybody's butt in MKIII
And that goes for all you chumps.
I can drink a whole bottle of whiskey
And straight up conquer Ninja Gaiden II.
I’m the master of 2-D fighting games
And you a Tetris playing fool.
I can kill Rygar in ten to twelve hits,
Because I know how to build my tone.
Don’t need no password for Castlevania 2
Because I’m straight falling into the zone.
Get all the items I need, while I’m smoking some weed
Because it’s all second nature to me.
Just like driving a car, I hit the dragon with a star
And grab the talisman; follow my lead.
Lyrics submitted by iLL Ronald
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