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"
We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip
Be sure to buy a record and don't forget to tip
The Gothic Archies are we, with whom you should not mess:
The Apogee and Zenith of gothicarchieness
We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip
Be sure to buy a T-shirt, and then you will be hip
Are The Gothic Archies we? Oh, are we ever they!
In fact, it is a myst'ry how anyone could say
We're not The Gothic Archies (pip, tentacles, and death)
We love to kill such people by squeezing out their breath
Are we The Gothic Archies? Be careful what you say
(You are The Gothic Archies, ta-ra-raboom-de-ray)
Oh, the archiesAy othicGay heTay, areAy eWay)
Illiantbray yricistlay an'tcay ouyay eesay?
Tho gothic we are archie, tho archie we are goth
No satan-worshippers we, we worship Yog-Sothoth!
Be sure to buy a record and don't forget to tip
The Gothic Archies are we, with whom you should not mess:
The Apogee and Zenith of gothicarchieness
We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip
Be sure to buy a T-shirt, and then you will be hip
Are The Gothic Archies we? Oh, are we ever they!
In fact, it is a myst'ry how anyone could say
We're not The Gothic Archies (pip, tentacles, and death)
We love to kill such people by squeezing out their breath
Are we The Gothic Archies? Be careful what you say
(You are The Gothic Archies, ta-ra-raboom-de-ray)
Oh, the archiesAy othicGay heTay, areAy eWay)
Illiantbray yricistlay an'tcay ouyay eesay?
Tho gothic we are archie, tho archie we are goth
No satan-worshippers we, we worship Yog-Sothoth!
Lyrics submitted by delial
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The Weird sentences at the end are secret language. By Changing some letter's places you can solve it.. i have solved this much : We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip Be sure to buy a record and don't forget to tip
The Gothic Archies are we, with whom you should not mess: The Apogee and Zenith of gothicarchieness
We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip Be sure to buy a T-shirt, and then you will be hip
Are The Gothic Archies we? Oh, are we ever they! In fact, it is a myst'ry how anyone could say
We're not The Gothic Archies (pip, tentacles, and death) We love to kill such people by squeezing out their breath
Are we The Gothic Archies? Be careful what you say (You are The Gothic Archies, ta-ra-raboom-de-ray)
Oh,We are The Gothic Archies The Arcy Goay ay, ay ay) Illiantbaoy yriistlayayay can't you say?
The gothic we are archie, the archie we are goth No satan-worshippers we, we worship Yog-Sothoth!