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"
Sending...
Recording...
Data - data - data
[ VERSE 1: Vex ]
My eyes snap flicks at a speed beyond a blink
Trapped thought, in these last days MC's are extinct
On the brink of a force never felt on the planet
GPS couldn't track it, and your lasers can't scan it
Yo, they ran it through test and left under assume
That if they kept me in gloom, I would meet sudden doom
But assumption leads men astray - watch me bloom
With consumption of your matter like photo memorex
So
[ CHORUS ]
Use your pupils as you move through the realm
Eyes the vision, memory is the film
Mondo and Vex bustin shots at the enemy
Click - it's the photographic memory (2x)
[ VERSE 2: Mondo ]
Foolish television sendin subliminal messages to my retina
I'm bettin ya that this gon' be the new medium of mind control
Peoples, we gon' check it, as the plot unfolds
Now TV is not a bad thing, but when my TV is misused by the wicked
Might it suffice to be labelled as a wicked device?
Escpecially since we the people that's like "they can eat pigs and rice"
Now what would happen if the wicked had my beats?
Then with they mind control, creepin at your peeps
That's dwellin on the streets would be sayin
What they didn't know was mind control - until they stop to listen
The same on reverse might seem idiotic
But don't front, fly beats and TV's are hypnotic
The proof is in my puddin, and my puddin ain't rotten
Just check yourselves - I got yo heads bobbin...
[ CHORUS ]
[ VERSE 3: Vex ]
My lens captures frames of faces with no names
Plus the people I know, around the globe I came
>From Alaska to the East Coast, and then overseas
As the brain take the walls dividin Germanies
I'm learnin these techniques, a music masterpiece
Scheitan want to plaster me, but can't desaster me
He's dastardly, but I'm fast, and he lacks the speed of light
Trapped on Earth to rule the darkness in the night
As I moveth in this tragic world of witchcraft and magic
My memory bust shots as if it's photographic
Use your pupils as you move through the realm
Word, eyes the vision, memory is the film
[ CHORUS ]
Click (click)
Click-click
Click, click, click
(Click)
Click, click-click
Click, click, click
(Click)...
The eye
Captures images
In speeds up to
99 frames per second
The iris
...light in fractions
To neuro-transmitters
In a...
Transfer thoughts
To the long-term memory
Recording...
Data - data - data
[ VERSE 1: Vex ]
My eyes snap flicks at a speed beyond a blink
Trapped thought, in these last days MC's are extinct
On the brink of a force never felt on the planet
GPS couldn't track it, and your lasers can't scan it
Yo, they ran it through test and left under assume
That if they kept me in gloom, I would meet sudden doom
But assumption leads men astray - watch me bloom
With consumption of your matter like photo memorex
So
[ CHORUS ]
Use your pupils as you move through the realm
Eyes the vision, memory is the film
Mondo and Vex bustin shots at the enemy
Click - it's the photographic memory (2x)
[ VERSE 2: Mondo ]
Foolish television sendin subliminal messages to my retina
I'm bettin ya that this gon' be the new medium of mind control
Peoples, we gon' check it, as the plot unfolds
Now TV is not a bad thing, but when my TV is misused by the wicked
Might it suffice to be labelled as a wicked device?
Escpecially since we the people that's like "they can eat pigs and rice"
Now what would happen if the wicked had my beats?
Then with they mind control, creepin at your peeps
That's dwellin on the streets would be sayin
What they didn't know was mind control - until they stop to listen
The same on reverse might seem idiotic
But don't front, fly beats and TV's are hypnotic
The proof is in my puddin, and my puddin ain't rotten
Just check yourselves - I got yo heads bobbin...
[ CHORUS ]
[ VERSE 3: Vex ]
My lens captures frames of faces with no names
Plus the people I know, around the globe I came
>From Alaska to the East Coast, and then overseas
As the brain take the walls dividin Germanies
I'm learnin these techniques, a music masterpiece
Scheitan want to plaster me, but can't desaster me
He's dastardly, but I'm fast, and he lacks the speed of light
Trapped on Earth to rule the darkness in the night
As I moveth in this tragic world of witchcraft and magic
My memory bust shots as if it's photographic
Use your pupils as you move through the realm
Word, eyes the vision, memory is the film
[ CHORUS ]
Click (click)
Click-click
Click, click, click
(Click)
Click, click-click
Click, click, click
(Click)...
The eye
Captures images
In speeds up to
99 frames per second
The iris
...light in fractions
To neuro-transmitters
In a...
Transfer thoughts
To the long-term memory
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