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"
(I need air)
Electrify my body
And you're making me feel like I'm so electric
Everything you do is making me blow-blow-blow
Don't know what to do about it
Can't seem not to live without it
All I wanna do is just know-know-know
You suffocate my mind
And now my atmosphere is crowded
And you being here is making me blow-blow-blow
You penetrate my space
And now I'm looking outta place
And you're making it hard for me, I need air
I breathe air
I breathe air
I breathe air
I breathe air
Kaleidoscope of colors that you bring to me
You're freaking out my energy
I'm losing and you're making me low-low-low
Don't know what to do about it, you and I can't live without it
All I wanna do is just go-go-go
You smother my emotions
Now I'm driving in your ocean
And I'm running and I'm feeling like I don't care
Penetrate my space
And now you're looking outta place
'Cause you're making this hard for me, I need air
I breathe air
I breathe air
And you're taking my air
I breathe air
I breathe air
Making my body so erotic
It's making my body so erotic
I breathe air
I breathe air
You penetrate my space
And now I'm looking outta place
And you're making it hard for me, I need air
I breathe air (I breathe air)
I breathe air
Yeah,
I breathe air
Can you feel it, yeah
I breathe air
And you're taking my air
Yeah,
Air
And you're taking my air
Yeah,
(I need air)
And you're taking my air
Electrify my body
And you're making me feel like I'm so electric
Everything you do is making me blow-blow-blow
Don't know what to do about it
Can't seem not to live without it
All I wanna do is just know-know-know
You suffocate my mind
And now my atmosphere is crowded
And you being here is making me blow-blow-blow
You penetrate my space
And now I'm looking outta place
And you're making it hard for me, I need air
I breathe air
I breathe air
I breathe air
I breathe air
Kaleidoscope of colors that you bring to me
You're freaking out my energy
I'm losing and you're making me low-low-low
Don't know what to do about it, you and I can't live without it
All I wanna do is just go-go-go
You smother my emotions
Now I'm driving in your ocean
And I'm running and I'm feeling like I don't care
Penetrate my space
And now you're looking outta place
'Cause you're making this hard for me, I need air
I breathe air
I breathe air
And you're taking my air
I breathe air
I breathe air
Making my body so erotic
It's making my body so erotic
I breathe air
I breathe air
You penetrate my space
And now I'm looking outta place
And you're making it hard for me, I need air
I breathe air (I breathe air)
I breathe air
Yeah,
I breathe air
Can you feel it, yeah
I breathe air
And you're taking my air
Yeah,
Air
And you're taking my air
Yeah,
(I need air)
And you're taking my air
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Ok well look, I really like how the song sounds, just great dubstep. But when you read the lyrics up here, you can tell straight away it sounds like a description of a blowjob, or similar highly sexual experience (lol).
"Everything you do is making me / Blow, blow, blow" "And you're making it hard for me / I need air" "Making my body so erotic"
I'm like - come on? so much better things to write about. Perhaps it wasn't written about a blowjob. Surely though they would realise what it sounds like and alter the lyrics a little. What a shame.