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"
(are you ready on the bass? organ? are you ready on guitar? shutup, shutup guitar!)
ow!
i'm gonna be short, tell you a story about a vice, lice and depravity
about the M.A.R.Q.U.I.S.D.E.S.A.D.E.
but first i'm gonna tell you what i started doing again today
you know what i started doing again today? "what?" lemme tell you...
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
according to me, mister marquis,
you mix up passion and cruelty cos passion extinguishes sympathy
and makes you cold and hard like me
stronger and stronger charms are needed to satisfy the passion and pain awakens nerves
when you lust in this fashion the pain of others also causes extraordinary excitation
and this cruelty shows your energy not your generation
horrible spectacle, execution, slaughter, disease and death
you aint tasted nothing 'til you got foetus on your breath
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
castration, masturbation, flagellation, come on, use your imagination
you may need lubrication for the appropriate preparation
so tighten up the thumbscrews, put on this evening gown
and no one leaves til their extremities are dragging on the ground
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
you wont get hungry, everything's swallowed
nothin goes to waste
cos once its been down your throat a few times it's not such a bitter taste
so come on, hit me one time and lets blaspheme my friend
get up get down get sideways aint no party and it never ends
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
ow!
i'm gonna be short, tell you a story about a vice, lice and depravity
about the M.A.R.Q.U.I.S.D.E.S.A.D.E.
but first i'm gonna tell you what i started doing again today
you know what i started doing again today? "what?" lemme tell you...
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
according to me, mister marquis,
you mix up passion and cruelty cos passion extinguishes sympathy
and makes you cold and hard like me
stronger and stronger charms are needed to satisfy the passion and pain awakens nerves
when you lust in this fashion the pain of others also causes extraordinary excitation
and this cruelty shows your energy not your generation
horrible spectacle, execution, slaughter, disease and death
you aint tasted nothing 'til you got foetus on your breath
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
castration, masturbation, flagellation, come on, use your imagination
you may need lubrication for the appropriate preparation
so tighten up the thumbscrews, put on this evening gown
and no one leaves til their extremities are dragging on the ground
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
you wont get hungry, everything's swallowed
nothin goes to waste
cos once its been down your throat a few times it's not such a bitter taste
so come on, hit me one time and lets blaspheme my friend
get up get down get sideways aint no party and it never ends
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
today i started slogging - again
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Today I Started Slogging Again Lyrics as written by Jim Thirlwell
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