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"
Exercise the demon that is living up inside you
After all you think you've been through, just what have you been through
Try to get beside yourself this tearing at your insides
If you end up on the wrong side, always standing so strong
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
Something supernatural it seems it could possess you
No melevalance about you yeah that might not be true (might not be true)
How they kept you demonized the fucked up situation,
How you've killed off all the angels taking notice of you
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it
You're born to quit
Sharpe up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
GO on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it!
You're born to quit!
You've blown it!
(you've blown it, you've blown it!)
After all you think you've been through, just what have you been through
Try to get beside yourself this tearing at your insides
If you end up on the wrong side, always standing so strong
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
Something supernatural it seems it could possess you
No melevalance about you yeah that might not be true (might not be true)
How they kept you demonized the fucked up situation,
How you've killed off all the angels taking notice of you
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it
You're born to quit
Sharpe up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
GO on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it!
You're born to quit!
You've blown it!
(you've blown it, you've blown it!)
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Born to Quit Lyrics as written by Jeph Howard Quinn Allman
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simple really. very nihilistic perspective on those who stand up for their dreams ideals and beliefs and how they keep runnning in cycles in a "In a fight that's never-ending". and when they screw up, they are have "blown it" officially and are just "full of shit". born to quiet i.e. it was failure to begin with. good song.