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"
If Stewart talked, what would he say?
Enough to keep you here ten more years
Where we zap ya with our 'therapy'
Throw the switch on your fantasies
With our little electric ring
Clamped around your love thang
Flash ya pictures, Clockwork Orange-style
Let's see what makes Stewart smile
Yow! Yow! Yow! Try not to expand
Yow! Yow! Yow! Don't trip the Plethysmograph
If the machine catches you erect
Ain't no way you're getting' outta here
Back to aversion therapy
As we watch our toys watch you
Flood your face with ammonia gas
And scent of rotting placentas
Little electric shock or two
This is how we cure you
Yow! Yow! Yow! Don't let it expand
Yow! Yow! Yow! Can't trick the Plethysmograph
Little girls and boys, Panties past their thighs
Try not to rise 3 strokes you're out!
Comely amputees scratch themselves for fleas
Down at Muscle Beach 3 strokes you're out
Grand Wizard Newt in a sailor suit
Dancing with a flute
3 strokes you're out!
Brazilian babes titties made of clay
Spread their waxy legs for Great Danes
Who invents this stuff? Do their kids join cults?
What do they fantasize to get themselves off
Wanna see child porn? Join the vice squad
In the name of correction we play with all we want
Nothing is private any more
Lie detectors were never this fun
Says the Attorney General Man
As he ends the morning prayer meeting
Back to his office for electronic ring
Clamps it on his sinful thang
Rewind the tape, lemme see some more
So I can feel my eagle soar
Yow! Yow! Yow! He's speaking in tongues
Yow! Yow! Yow! Now he can't shut it off
Yow! Yow! Yow! Crashing through the glass
Yow! Yow! Yow! Praise the Plethysmograph
Enough to keep you here ten more years
Where we zap ya with our 'therapy'
Throw the switch on your fantasies
With our little electric ring
Clamped around your love thang
Flash ya pictures, Clockwork Orange-style
Let's see what makes Stewart smile
Yow! Yow! Yow! Try not to expand
Yow! Yow! Yow! Don't trip the Plethysmograph
If the machine catches you erect
Ain't no way you're getting' outta here
Back to aversion therapy
As we watch our toys watch you
Flood your face with ammonia gas
And scent of rotting placentas
Little electric shock or two
This is how we cure you
Yow! Yow! Yow! Don't let it expand
Yow! Yow! Yow! Can't trick the Plethysmograph
Little girls and boys, Panties past their thighs
Try not to rise 3 strokes you're out!
Comely amputees scratch themselves for fleas
Down at Muscle Beach 3 strokes you're out
Grand Wizard Newt in a sailor suit
Dancing with a flute
3 strokes you're out!
Brazilian babes titties made of clay
Spread their waxy legs for Great Danes
Who invents this stuff? Do their kids join cults?
What do they fantasize to get themselves off
Wanna see child porn? Join the vice squad
In the name of correction we play with all we want
Nothing is private any more
Lie detectors were never this fun
Says the Attorney General Man
As he ends the morning prayer meeting
Back to his office for electronic ring
Clamps it on his sinful thang
Rewind the tape, lemme see some more
So I can feel my eagle soar
Yow! Yow! Yow! He's speaking in tongues
Yow! Yow! Yow! Now he can't shut it off
Yow! Yow! Yow! Crashing through the glass
Yow! Yow! Yow! Praise the Plethysmograph
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'whole rehabilitation process'<br /> Not to imply that it actually rehabilitates them...