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"
There's something in the way you people smell
Like you've got no soul at all
Fingers crawling with ringworm
Your sneer's a mating call
To lure in others of your breed
Spread that smug and slimy seed
Borrow quotes from the cultures you've crowded like weeds
Is your schedule sufficient tonight, you toad?
Hop another bar until the rooster crows
This song belongs to you and all your crew
This curse will sting the worse as it shall mark you
All Rise
I'd rather spend an hour giving birth
Then see how your eyes are glued
On everyone but the person you're talking to
And trapped between babushkas on a plane in a fraction of how lame
It is to watch you pump the poison through your veins
Is your schedule sufficient tonight, you crow?
"skwak" another song until your heart explodes
This song belongs to you and all your crew
This curse will sting the worse as it shall mark you
You'd probably think this means I give up on you
The saddest part is this is why I come
To watch and pray that I'm mistaken
And pray I'm not the only one
Not going to care about this, I know that this is hopeless
No one notices it
Not losing sleep over this
You people are unredeemable, indescribable, all but evil
You know very well what you are
Don't let 'em write you off
You wear your scars
I've had a few but not that many
But you're the only one who gives me good and plenty
Like you've got no soul at all
Fingers crawling with ringworm
Your sneer's a mating call
To lure in others of your breed
Spread that smug and slimy seed
Borrow quotes from the cultures you've crowded like weeds
Is your schedule sufficient tonight, you toad?
Hop another bar until the rooster crows
This song belongs to you and all your crew
This curse will sting the worse as it shall mark you
All Rise
I'd rather spend an hour giving birth
Then see how your eyes are glued
On everyone but the person you're talking to
And trapped between babushkas on a plane in a fraction of how lame
It is to watch you pump the poison through your veins
Is your schedule sufficient tonight, you crow?
"skwak" another song until your heart explodes
This song belongs to you and all your crew
This curse will sting the worse as it shall mark you
You'd probably think this means I give up on you
The saddest part is this is why I come
To watch and pray that I'm mistaken
And pray I'm not the only one
Not going to care about this, I know that this is hopeless
No one notices it
Not losing sleep over this
You people are unredeemable, indescribable, all but evil
You know very well what you are
Don't let 'em write you off
You wear your scars
I've had a few but not that many
But you're the only one who gives me good and plenty
Lyrics submitted by overoverme
No Soul Lyrics as written by Max Bemis James Mtume
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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