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"
They call it KFC Cause it's not really chicken
Hot Cheetos for breakfast makes a young student sicken
Do you ever think someone's tricking you (x3 echo)
And the guy in the pulpit is a bigot and a liar
Some kid walks into my school and opens fire
Heard any good jokes lately? Cause we sure do need 'em
My punk band's called Operation Iraqi Freedom
[Chrous]
So what's it gonna be?
Are you real to me?
Or are you non-dairy creamer?
A new love is burning up in me
Cause 1 in 4 American girls has an STD
And you can buy yourself some implants
But you can't buy a soul, Threat Level Orange
With your chest puffed out, what are you so afraid about?
With your chest puffed out, what are you so afraid about?
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
What's it gonna be?
Are you real to me?
Or are you non-dairy creamer?
And two gay guys got married
And brought the family to it's knees
How did they blow us to smitherines
Just a couple of queens
How did they do it, I'm tellin' you now
They brought marriage to an end
And I found myself some culprits
It's two young gay
Republicans!
Young Gay Republicans
Young Gay Republicans
Young Gay Republicans
What's it gonna be? (what's it gonna be?)
Are you real to me? (are you real to me?)
Or are you non-dairy (non-dairy)
Creamer? (creamer)
What's it gonna be? (what's it gonna be?)
Are you real to me? (are you real to me?)
Or are you non-dairy (non-dairy)
Creamer?
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Hot Cheetos for breakfast makes a young student sicken
Do you ever think someone's tricking you (x3 echo)
And the guy in the pulpit is a bigot and a liar
Some kid walks into my school and opens fire
Heard any good jokes lately? Cause we sure do need 'em
My punk band's called Operation Iraqi Freedom
[Chrous]
So what's it gonna be?
Are you real to me?
Or are you non-dairy creamer?
A new love is burning up in me
Cause 1 in 4 American girls has an STD
And you can buy yourself some implants
But you can't buy a soul, Threat Level Orange
With your chest puffed out, what are you so afraid about?
With your chest puffed out, what are you so afraid about?
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
What's it gonna be?
Are you real to me?
Or are you non-dairy creamer?
And two gay guys got married
And brought the family to it's knees
How did they blow us to smitherines
Just a couple of queens
How did they do it, I'm tellin' you now
They brought marriage to an end
And I found myself some culprits
It's two young gay
Republicans!
Young Gay Republicans
Young Gay Republicans
Young Gay Republicans
What's it gonna be? (what's it gonna be?)
Are you real to me? (are you real to me?)
Or are you non-dairy (non-dairy)
Creamer? (creamer)
What's it gonna be? (what's it gonna be?)
Are you real to me? (are you real to me?)
Or are you non-dairy (non-dairy)
Creamer?
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished
Lyrics submitted by ohxcalifornia
Non-Dairy Creamer Lyrics as written by Tony Fredianelli Stephan Jenkins
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