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"
Accentuate the positive
Destroy all the negatives
Before the black mass media
Get a hold of them
Boy's been sniffing that frog powder
Drinking that genius juice
Shooting that monkey blood
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland
Devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat
Down in Zombieland
Machines always do just what you tell them to do
As long as you do what they say
Machines gonna stomp
To that devil beat in Zombieland
Look at that boy can't see nothing
Can't hear nothing
Just put him over there
All the tides in Zombieland
Are to oblivion
Sniffing that frog powder
Blowing that Egyptian bone
Settling like a fog
Speaking hieroglyphics
With his pistol and his pills
Phantom conjured to a dark mojo
You want to know but you don't know
You want to know but you don't know
Destroy all the negatives
Before the black mass media
Get a hold of them
Boy's been sniffing that frog powder
Drinking that genius juice
Shooting that monkey blood
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland
Devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat
Down in Zombieland
Machines always do just what you tell them to do
As long as you do what they say
Machines gonna stomp
To that devil beat in Zombieland
Look at that boy can't see nothing
Can't hear nothing
Just put him over there
All the tides in Zombieland
Are to oblivion
Sniffing that frog powder
Blowing that Egyptian bone
Settling like a fog
Speaking hieroglyphics
With his pistol and his pills
Phantom conjured to a dark mojo
You want to know but you don't know
You want to know but you don't know
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