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"
My aggression gives me power in my
My weakest hour
Such an influential friend
My foe when I devour
See my red mist set, upon my pale blue eyes
I find it hard to discard, it's harder to disguise
But it ain't so bad
Just as long as I control it
Keep in my possession, my aggression when I hold it
I keep it to minimal
My Satanic subliminal
Yeah it helps getting paid
It helps me as a criminal
To earn my wage, I just apply my rage
I see the whites of his eyes
Release me from my cage
And there'll be no time to tame me while I'm under possession
I ask the lord for forgiveness I as I commit my aggression
I ask the lord for forgiveness as I commit my aggression
There's no excuses to be made but there's a valuable lesson
For all the moments you attack, when your enemy taunts you
Yeah, those people will come back, 'cause your enemy haunts you
It's aggression
I'm feeling violated under my skin
Forgive me lord for I'm committing no sin
It's either me or it's him
'Cause I don't wanna be no victim, victimized by a stranger
My defenses I erect under prominent danger
Please remember my temper is tender, when I crack
I fulfill all obligations to submit and subtract my opposition
I'm physically damaging
Anger managing
I'm playing God
I'm choosing who'll be living or vanishing
My profession is a product I refuse to be sold
A poet's words from a poet's mouth need to be told, of his aggression
Our God is a living man
Just an angel amongst many cynical hands
His son preached
"Turn the other cheek if you're touched"
I preach an "eye for an eye"
Turn my head and I look at the man, as he stands in a puddle of piss
See my aggression is a lesson, which he seems to of missed
So I'm gonna teach him the truth it can never be sold
A poet's words from a poet's mouth need to be told of his aggression
My weakest hour
Such an influential friend
My foe when I devour
See my red mist set, upon my pale blue eyes
I find it hard to discard, it's harder to disguise
But it ain't so bad
Just as long as I control it
Keep in my possession, my aggression when I hold it
I keep it to minimal
My Satanic subliminal
Yeah it helps getting paid
It helps me as a criminal
To earn my wage, I just apply my rage
I see the whites of his eyes
Release me from my cage
And there'll be no time to tame me while I'm under possession
I ask the lord for forgiveness I as I commit my aggression
I ask the lord for forgiveness as I commit my aggression
There's no excuses to be made but there's a valuable lesson
For all the moments you attack, when your enemy taunts you
Yeah, those people will come back, 'cause your enemy haunts you
It's aggression
I'm feeling violated under my skin
Forgive me lord for I'm committing no sin
It's either me or it's him
'Cause I don't wanna be no victim, victimized by a stranger
My defenses I erect under prominent danger
Please remember my temper is tender, when I crack
I fulfill all obligations to submit and subtract my opposition
I'm physically damaging
Anger managing
I'm playing God
I'm choosing who'll be living or vanishing
My profession is a product I refuse to be sold
A poet's words from a poet's mouth need to be told, of his aggression
Our God is a living man
Just an angel amongst many cynical hands
His son preached
"Turn the other cheek if you're touched"
I preach an "eye for an eye"
Turn my head and I look at the man, as he stands in a puddle of piss
See my aggression is a lesson, which he seems to of missed
So I'm gonna teach him the truth it can never be sold
A poet's words from a poet's mouth need to be told of his aggression
Lyrics submitted by bananahero
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