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 took my car in to get it fixed
And I give the keys to some teethless hick
Who picks his nose and spits
I want him dead!
And later on I go to shop for clothes
And the sales clerk strikes a snotty pose
"Can I help you with those?"
I want him dead!
And every time I see that stuck up topless dancer
I only want her to grow old and die of cancer
Cause I wanna set a bonfire in her hair
See her fry in the electric chair
Cause that's how much I care
I want her dead!
And I ask myself well how can it be right
To wish these awful deaths on people day and night
But when I ask why that's the way that it must be
I only tell myself 'well better them than me'.
Cause it's not that I'm such an awful guy
Don't ask me cause I don't know why
But certain people must die
I want 'em dead!
Yeah, I wish they'd take a leap from a windowsill,
Or overdose on sleeping pills
Curiosity kills
I want 'em dead!
Everyone who's afraid to dance
And everyone who wears panters' pants
And the whole nation of France
I want 'em dead!
You better take a dive on a live grenade
Or slit your throat with a razor blade
I wish you'd all get aids
I want 'em dead!
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
They got a go
They got a go
They got a go
I want 'em dead!
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Don't know why they got a die
But I want them dead!
De-de-de-dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
I want 'em dead
DEAD!
And I give the keys to some teethless hick
Who picks his nose and spits
I want him dead!
And later on I go to shop for clothes
And the sales clerk strikes a snotty pose
"Can I help you with those?"
I want him dead!
And every time I see that stuck up topless dancer
I only want her to grow old and die of cancer
Cause I wanna set a bonfire in her hair
See her fry in the electric chair
Cause that's how much I care
I want her dead!
And I ask myself well how can it be right
To wish these awful deaths on people day and night
But when I ask why that's the way that it must be
I only tell myself 'well better them than me'.
Cause it's not that I'm such an awful guy
Don't ask me cause I don't know why
But certain people must die
I want 'em dead!
Yeah, I wish they'd take a leap from a windowsill,
Or overdose on sleeping pills
Curiosity kills
I want 'em dead!
Everyone who's afraid to dance
And everyone who wears panters' pants
And the whole nation of France
I want 'em dead!
You better take a dive on a live grenade
Or slit your throat with a razor blade
I wish you'd all get aids
I want 'em dead!
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
They got a go
They got a go
They got a go
I want 'em dead!
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Don't know why they got a die
But I want them dead!
De-de-de-dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
I want 'em dead
DEAD!
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I Want 'Em Dead Lyrics as written by J. Barron D. Thompson
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