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"
Tell me something I don't know
Show me something I can't use
Push the button, connect the goddamned dots
Live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
Commodity sodomy glass autonomy
Promise everything take it all away
Give it a rest
You're lying through your teeth
You're lying through your teeth
Who, what, which, why, who
When did you say the earth would stop turning?
When did you say we would all start burning?
When should I make a pledge?
Should I listen to the voices in my head?
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Who am I trying to impress?
Who could care less?
Tell me something I don't know
Show me something I can't use
Push the button, connect the goddamned dots
Live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
Commodity sodomy glass autonomy
Promise everything take it all away
Give it a rest
You're lying through your teeth
You're lying through your teeth
Who, what, which, why, who
When did you say the earth would stop turning?
When did you say we would all start burning?
When should I make a pledge?
Should I listen to the voices in my head?
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Who am I trying to impress?
Who could care less?
Tell me something I don't know
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TV II Lyrics as written by William Fredrick Rieflin Michael R Scaccia
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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CONNECT THE GODDAMNED DOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I seriously think they just invited in some homeless guy with .... er, I'll just say issues, and gave him a microphone. Maybe someone with a sign that says "The end is nigh". I'm kidding but the lyrics are unsettling. They remind me of instability. If it was meant to be about that, I don't know. The "voices in my head" line seems to go along with that idea. "Connect the goddam dots" seems like a plea to put the pieces together and see the underlying truth and that's a symptom of some mental health conditions.
Edit: Just a small moment that I just had to point out. If you listen closely, just before the drummer plays the blast beat of all blast beats, you can hear 4 taps of a drumstick on drumstick. A count in. Maybe that's only funny to musicians. But they didn't really need a count in there. It's just funny at that speed. I can't explain why but it is.
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