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"
You're the infection my friend
Disgusting right to the end
Didn't I know it then?
I knew it I knew it
You're basic but hard to define
Simple yet somehow sublime
Knew you will strike again
I knew it I knew it
(Chorus)
You're all that's wrong
With your dumbass psalm
Yet it's all that you will ever be
Nothing you can do
Cause that's all that you will ever be
Polished you shimmer when shined
But rotten and seething inside
Everyone falls for this
I knew it I knew it
Chorus
Ever be, never be, want to be mine
All to be, made to be, holding the son
Throwing it, breaking it, all by your crime
Sending you back to the place you once came
Leaving behind you
No one around you
Chorus
Ever be/never be/wannabe (Repeat)
You will never be (Repeat)
You want to be God (Repeat)
It's all God (Repeat)
It's all gone (Repeat)
Disgusting right to the end
Didn't I know it then?
I knew it I knew it
You're basic but hard to define
Simple yet somehow sublime
Knew you will strike again
I knew it I knew it
(Chorus)
You're all that's wrong
With your dumbass psalm
Yet it's all that you will ever be
Nothing you can do
Cause that's all that you will ever be
Polished you shimmer when shined
But rotten and seething inside
Everyone falls for this
I knew it I knew it
Chorus
Ever be, never be, want to be mine
All to be, made to be, holding the son
Throwing it, breaking it, all by your crime
Sending you back to the place you once came
Leaving behind you
No one around you
Chorus
Ever be/never be/wannabe (Repeat)
You will never be (Repeat)
You want to be God (Repeat)
It's all God (Repeat)
It's all gone (Repeat)
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Wonderful song... obviously about Head.
yeah, pretty much about head
pretty much bout head.....i respect what he did,cuz i'm christian myself,but he shouldn't go around giving korn a bad reputation,cuz korn gave him everything he has.it's JD saying that head is an obsessive christian,but that's all he'll ever be.
head is stupid. but he is a great guitarist
first let me say that jon is mistaken when he thinks that head is trying to be GOD, all he is trying to do is come closer to the GOD that created us all. hes not giving korn a bad rep, hes just being honest...his life, despite all the drugs, women, and fame was crap so he decided to make a change. i am a chritian, but i love korns music, and for the most part, jon's lyrics, but i dont like that he is dissing on head for doing what makes him happy.
I don't know why head left korn. Just because the other band members may have different views on life than him, doesn't mean he had to ditch em. Its not like Korn has ever openly dissed god or jesus or anything!
Freakin awseome song, gonna see them aug 15 - obviously aboot head. Is it me or at the end, its almost a zepplin kashmir feel to it?
Awesome Cd by KORN \m/
song is about head, cause heads music was 'talkin smack' about korn so this is korns retaliation song back to head. I thought Head was doing the right thing but as i look upon it he has no right saying or doing the things hes doing like above, korn has given head what he has today... and he needs to realize that and suck it up and fuck god.
First of all, I think the lyrics are more than likely "You're all that's wrong With your dumbass song" and not "You're all that's wrong With your dumbass psalm" one cuz it actually rhymes... and also because it isn't like Korn to come out and diss something like the bible so blatantly... theyre more respectful than that. Their problem is with head and not christianity!
Also if you buy the Deluxe version of the Cd and watch the dvd... when he sings that part without all the extra noise its easier to understand everything and it sounds (and looks, if you read his lips) much more like "song"