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"
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Amassing barriers
I oughtta know
For I've taken pulls until it's aerial
And yes contest with the best monetary order
You get the daughter
You can murder it
If you've heard of it
Or you've purchased it in the showroom
But that's not part of it
Or at least not part of the book 'cause I've read it
And as for the film I've seen it
Oh and I mean it
I am the prodigal son of involuntary order
Or shit I taught 'em
On a strange man from a strange land
Near Japan trots a dog of war
Who is sorting overzealous razorwire wristbands
And he's the bees knees
And if he sneezed please oversee this slight oversight for which he'll fight
Granted tonight's the night
And if you feel it well then alright
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Conceptual continuity
Driven stewardly
I'm through with thee
My focus on the parody is new to me
You're digging holes like you've forgotten how to swim
And taking orders like you're my daughter
I like the night if you like the night
I love the night if there's a general on my right
Boy what have you become? You've become undone
And boy I've been there
A coward in the face of what you stood for
I'm dirt poor and still I've stood more
'Cause tonight's the night and if you feel it alright, well
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Well...
I never eat the stomach, no
Because you never know
What's your prey's prey and what's its sign
Astrological, anatomical, in the name of art
Hosannah's form
Lipstick on the collar of a wed man
Comical.
Mystery travels in pairs
I ride sidecar
And I love company
And where is the daybreak from this daterape?
Please step back as I placate
History's mystery fizzling sizzling shimmering glicering glistening in the light
You'll get your rocks off but you can't stop girl tonight
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Amassing barriers
I oughtta know
For I've taken pulls until it's aerial
And yes contest with the best monetary order
You get the daughter
You can murder it
If you've heard of it
Or you've purchased it in the showroom
But that's not part of it
Or at least not part of the book 'cause I've read it
And as for the film I've seen it
Oh and I mean it
I am the prodigal son of involuntary order
Or shit I taught 'em
On a strange man from a strange land
Near Japan trots a dog of war
Who is sorting overzealous razorwire wristbands
And he's the bees knees
And if he sneezed please oversee this slight oversight for which he'll fight
Granted tonight's the night
And if you feel it well then alright
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Conceptual continuity
Driven stewardly
I'm through with thee
My focus on the parody is new to me
You're digging holes like you've forgotten how to swim
And taking orders like you're my daughter
I like the night if you like the night
I love the night if there's a general on my right
Boy what have you become? You've become undone
And boy I've been there
A coward in the face of what you stood for
I'm dirt poor and still I've stood more
'Cause tonight's the night and if you feel it alright, well
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Well...
I never eat the stomach, no
Because you never know
What's your prey's prey and what's its sign
Astrological, anatomical, in the name of art
Hosannah's form
Lipstick on the collar of a wed man
Comical.
Mystery travels in pairs
I ride sidecar
And I love company
And where is the daybreak from this daterape?
Please step back as I placate
History's mystery fizzling sizzling shimmering glicering glistening in the light
You'll get your rocks off but you can't stop girl tonight
Would I lie to you?
Yeah I'd like to
Over and over
Over and over
Stand there laughing
But what for?
Lyrics submitted by inverse_paradise, edited by Ozpl
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