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"
let's hear it for circuits
lines drawn in the earth
cut to scramble for ramble
little mouse hole to park your new car
and chew off our arms
with teeth we are losing from slow, comfy screwings
three cheers for the backseats
your legs pin that look in your eye
you'll never take me alive
this is what you are
you are what you are
let's hear it for mirrors
with the ghost image clearer
hip hip for the pig that religiously belts you undone
this little piggy had none
'cause god hates our country
she told me she wants me to sing out "he's female!"
three cheers for the gal in the sky
you'll never take me alive
this is what you are
you are what you are
this is what you are
do you know what it means to be doomed?
do you know what it means to be cursed?
when the blue eyes are washing their mouths in the south
you know they're hiding bodies north
did you know that we're sinking knee-deep?
did you nail down what you plan to keep?
when the poltergeist pushes his freight on your shore
you are done for
done for
done for
the caskets are coughing with quotable quoting
the graveyard is littered with loves who thought there was no doubt
the world could not live without
this is what you are
you are what you are
this is what you are
if I live through the day when the comet does come
I will write everyone down my list one by one
sharpen the axe
stomp the flames out on backs
I will be who you want me to be
I will be who you want me to be
do you know what it means to be doomed?
do you know what it means to be cursed?
when the blue eyes are washing their mouths in the south
you know they're hiding bodies north
did you know that your boot hills are stuck?
losing feet worth the rabbit's good luck
when the devil is resting his head on your door
you are done for
done for
done for
you are done for
done for
done for
did you know that you nurse a beehive?
come and get it
come take me alive
all the nooses are in it; a grizzly frontier
we will show this cruel world
we will show this cruel world we were here
lines drawn in the earth
cut to scramble for ramble
little mouse hole to park your new car
and chew off our arms
with teeth we are losing from slow, comfy screwings
three cheers for the backseats
your legs pin that look in your eye
you'll never take me alive
this is what you are
you are what you are
let's hear it for mirrors
with the ghost image clearer
hip hip for the pig that religiously belts you undone
this little piggy had none
'cause god hates our country
she told me she wants me to sing out "he's female!"
three cheers for the gal in the sky
you'll never take me alive
this is what you are
you are what you are
this is what you are
do you know what it means to be doomed?
do you know what it means to be cursed?
when the blue eyes are washing their mouths in the south
you know they're hiding bodies north
did you know that we're sinking knee-deep?
did you nail down what you plan to keep?
when the poltergeist pushes his freight on your shore
you are done for
done for
done for
the caskets are coughing with quotable quoting
the graveyard is littered with loves who thought there was no doubt
the world could not live without
this is what you are
you are what you are
this is what you are
if I live through the day when the comet does come
I will write everyone down my list one by one
sharpen the axe
stomp the flames out on backs
I will be who you want me to be
I will be who you want me to be
do you know what it means to be doomed?
do you know what it means to be cursed?
when the blue eyes are washing their mouths in the south
you know they're hiding bodies north
did you know that your boot hills are stuck?
losing feet worth the rabbit's good luck
when the devil is resting his head on your door
you are done for
done for
done for
you are done for
done for
done for
did you know that you nurse a beehive?
come and get it
come take me alive
all the nooses are in it; a grizzly frontier
we will show this cruel world
we will show this cruel world we were here
Lyrics submitted by heartinasling, edited by r74
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