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"
Take me tenderly
if you could salivate
I would appreciate that
Could you, you could, you know
All that is good is so bad
This fat is teasing me
Does your appetite whet you
and let you forget your vows?
I wait on this chilly plate
trying to titillate
Tickle my raspberry nipples
so gingerly
You want me, I know
I can see by the greed in your eyes
There could have been others
but none of such sickening size
The sensation is sweet
But time passes so quickly
So why don’t you eat me?
Could you encircle me with lips
that a-quiver and drip for me?
I’m whipped and I’m stiff
and I want to be licked
There’s bits that taste quite sugary
Damn your piety!
What can you gain from cold restraint?
The strain that sings, it’s spilling like cream
How can you watch it turn?
Mmmmm
You want me, I know
I can see by the greed in your eyes
There could have been others
but none of such sickening size
The sensation is sweet
But time passes so quickly
So why don’t you eat me?
if you could salivate
I would appreciate that
Could you, you could, you know
All that is good is so bad
This fat is teasing me
Does your appetite whet you
and let you forget your vows?
I wait on this chilly plate
trying to titillate
Tickle my raspberry nipples
so gingerly
You want me, I know
I can see by the greed in your eyes
There could have been others
but none of such sickening size
The sensation is sweet
But time passes so quickly
So why don’t you eat me?
Could you encircle me with lips
that a-quiver and drip for me?
I’m whipped and I’m stiff
and I want to be licked
There’s bits that taste quite sugary
Damn your piety!
What can you gain from cold restraint?
The strain that sings, it’s spilling like cream
How can you watch it turn?
Mmmmm
You want me, I know
I can see by the greed in your eyes
There could have been others
but none of such sickening size
The sensation is sweet
But time passes so quickly
So why don’t you eat me?
Lyrics submitted by SophiaDear
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