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"
Kitty came back home from on the island
But kitty came on home without a name
She and me's a history for violence
So I long, I burn to touch her just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Every single sense in me is heightened
There's nothing left inside to rearrange
Like a slave to history and science
I long, I burn to touch you just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Until the universe is done
And the course of time has run
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Don't let them get their way
Don't let them have their way
You're beautiful and so blase
So please don't let them have their way
Don't fall back into the decay
There is no law we must obey
So please don't let them have their way
Don't give in to yesterday
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
But kitty came on home without a name
She and me's a history for violence
So I long, I burn to touch her just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Every single sense in me is heightened
There's nothing left inside to rearrange
Like a slave to history and science
I long, I burn to touch you just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Until the universe is done
And the course of time has run
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Don't let them get their way
Don't let them have their way
You're beautiful and so blase
So please don't let them have their way
Don't fall back into the decay
There is no law we must obey
So please don't let them have their way
Don't give in to yesterday
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
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Astarte27: Well, in that case you can always give your e-mail address (because mine will be fixed soon, I think, I've told sb to help me) and can try to send you!!! Also it's always nice to talk to people with the same passion for Placebo as me. No one here likes Cebo (just my bff, who isn't obsessed with them as I am). Oh, and I have a GREAT collection of Placebo and Brian's photos, too... It would be great to share them... Oh, but only if that's OK with you!!!! My damn e-mail!! I've been very pissed with it these days. Nothing can work properly on my bloody computer!!! (that's all. Phew!)