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 cancer came knocking
It was dressed to the nines
So I peeled back my skin
And I let it come inside
But it won't leave
Though the guests have gone
No, it pours a drink
And requests another song
Now it sleeps in between us
Splits and doubles in size
Apes my nuances of desertion
Lust and arrogant pride
And it drags me out of my head
And it drags me out of my head
The plague is now empowered
The plague is now empowered
The plague is now
My cancer waved torches
Broke the lock on my door
But I was powerless
To refuse it anymore
Is everyone comfortable?
Is everyone having a good time?
My friends are all vampires
Come to drain and transform
I keep the window cracked and the light on
Kept the leftovers warm
Maybe I make myself sick
Maybe I make myself sick
Make me give a damn
And I will be with you everywhere
I will open the sky
I will follow you into hell
Kill everyone in our way, yeah
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
It was dressed to the nines
So I peeled back my skin
And I let it come inside
But it won't leave
Though the guests have gone
No, it pours a drink
And requests another song
Now it sleeps in between us
Splits and doubles in size
Apes my nuances of desertion
Lust and arrogant pride
And it drags me out of my head
And it drags me out of my head
The plague is now empowered
The plague is now empowered
The plague is now
My cancer waved torches
Broke the lock on my door
But I was powerless
To refuse it anymore
Is everyone comfortable?
Is everyone having a good time?
My friends are all vampires
Come to drain and transform
I keep the window cracked and the light on
Kept the leftovers warm
Maybe I make myself sick
Maybe I make myself sick
Make me give a damn
And I will be with you everywhere
I will open the sky
I will follow you into hell
Kill everyone in our way, yeah
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21, edited by kylepopalis
Host Disorder Lyrics as written by Jordan Buckley Andy Williams
Lyrics © MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Correct lyrics from the booklet: My cancer came knocking. It was dressed to the nines. So I peeled back my skin and I let it come inside. But it won't leave, though the guests have gone. No, it pours a drink and requests another song. Now it sleeps in between us. Splits and doubles in size. Apes my nuances of desertion, lust and arrogant pride. And it drags me out of my head. And it drags me out of my head. The plague is now empowered. My cancer waved torches. Broke the lock on my door, but I was powerless to refuse it anymore. Is everyone comfortable? Is everyone having a good time? My friends are all vampires. Come to drain and transform. I keep the window cracked and the light on. Kept the leftovers warm. ...maybe I make myself sick. Make me give a damn and I will be with you everywhere. I will open the sky. Kill everyone in our way.
Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers. Open your heart to the snake oil peddlers.
"Make me give a damn and I will be with you everywhere. I will open the sky. Kill everyone in our way." Most romantic lines ever.
Snake oil peddlers are people who sell "medicine" but are fradulent and/or ineffective.
make me give a damn and i will be with you everywhere.<br /> i will open the sky.<br /> i will follow you into hell.<br /> kill everyone in our way.