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"
Put your hands up,
here comes the badman.
Give up your booty, spill your treasure,
cause you can't deny this pleasure.
Tough-talking sluts,
can't get enough.
Drug-snorting madman.
Animal, spit out your cocaine,
to numb the psychic pain.
We don't even know what we're feelin' again.
No blind animal actors in this game.
Oh, love love,
all kinds of love.
In this cock-cunt equation,
in this cock-cock equation,
in this cunt-cunt equation,
in this sweet-sweet elation.
To fill me.
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut might kill me!
Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.
Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.
So put your hands up,
here comes the badman.
Throw your panties on the floor,
and do what you came here for.
You've seen the stuff.
So give it up.
Come towards the sad man.
And the magic's still the sex,
From our human hand.
As if we didn't know what we're doing again.
Cry and love,
animal actors in this game.
No love,
no more toxic love.
In this cock-cunt equation,
in this cock-cock equation,
in this cunt-cunt equation,
in this sweet-sweet elation.
To fill me.
(Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.)
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut might kill me!
here comes the badman.
Give up your booty, spill your treasure,
cause you can't deny this pleasure.
Tough-talking sluts,
can't get enough.
Drug-snorting madman.
Animal, spit out your cocaine,
to numb the psychic pain.
We don't even know what we're feelin' again.
No blind animal actors in this game.
Oh, love love,
all kinds of love.
In this cock-cunt equation,
in this cock-cock equation,
in this cunt-cunt equation,
in this sweet-sweet elation.
To fill me.
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut might kill me!
Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.
Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.
So put your hands up,
here comes the badman.
Throw your panties on the floor,
and do what you came here for.
You've seen the stuff.
So give it up.
Come towards the sad man.
And the magic's still the sex,
From our human hand.
As if we didn't know what we're doing again.
Cry and love,
animal actors in this game.
No love,
no more toxic love.
In this cock-cunt equation,
in this cock-cock equation,
in this cunt-cunt equation,
in this sweet-sweet elation.
To fill me.
(Can't see the poison in your eyes.
Lick your tears and now we die.
It's fire, fire and ice.
Man, you've got me ruled.)
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut
This nut might kill me!
Lyrics submitted by effigyfilth
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