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"
The locust took over my brain
I'm not living for you
I'm just living
So chill with your guilt
You hope for sun, I want rain
We just tear down the walls
And the home that our jealousy built
You're not as pretty as you maybe think that you are
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
This pigment, it's starting to fade
We won't be living for long
So just fly with me, die with me babe
They all swim, while I drown
They just dig up the dirt
And then bury us in the ground
You're not as special as you maybe think that you are
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
Why is it I love you so much and all you do
Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Why is it I love you so much and all you do
Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
I'm not living for you
I'm just living
So chill with your guilt
You hope for sun, I want rain
We just tear down the walls
And the home that our jealousy built
You're not as pretty as you maybe think that you are
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
This pigment, it's starting to fade
We won't be living for long
So just fly with me, die with me babe
They all swim, while I drown
They just dig up the dirt
And then bury us in the ground
You're not as special as you maybe think that you are
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
Why is it I love you so much and all you do
Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Why is it I love you so much and all you do
Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
Its been watching you
Your slips and slurs and play on words
All fall from your mouth
Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
Lyrics submitted by hockeykid828
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The locust took over my brain I'm not living for you I'm just living So chill with your guilt You hope for sun, I want rain We just tear down the walls And the home that our jealousy built
You're not as pretty as you maybe think that you are
Its been watching you Your slips and slurs and play on words All fall from your mouth Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
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Its been watching you Your slips and slurs and play on words All fall from your mouth Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
Why is it I love you so much and all you do Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Why is it I love you so much and all you do Is hate, hate hate everything you've become
Its been watching you Your slips and slurs and play on words All fall from your mouth Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
Its been watching you Your slips and slurs and play on words All fall from your mouth Each mutter, rolling, dripping from your tongue
My plague's begun
[Official Lyrics from CD lyric sheet]
all right thanks i'll change it
here are some minor corrections:
*this PIGMENT is starting to fade. WE won't be living for long, so just fly with me; die with me, BABE. THEY ALL swim while i drown.
*your slips AND slurs and play on words all fall from your mouth.
*my PLAGUE'S begun.
He sings, "You're not as pretty as you maybe think that you are" and , "You're not as special as you maybe think that you are"
But then he goes...
"Why is it I love you so much and all you do Is hate, hate hate everything you've become"
Is he singing to 2 different people?