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 only meat that will touch these lips of mine is human
Hope you consider that animals feel pain the same as we
Barbaric slaughter so you can put meat on the table to feed yourself
I hope you choke yourself to death on the very first bite
We are accountable, we are the choices that we make
And there's no reason for cruelty towards those that can't
Defend themselves, well, it's obscene that someone gets fat
From the pain and suffering of the innocent and defenseless
It's grotesque, a twisted burlesque
A gruesome Halloween, all the cruelty that I've seen
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
Always remember that gluttony precedes a fall
Kangaroo killers Adidas, battery farms just to feed us
Animals under the blade just another hide for the skin trade
It's grotesque, a twisted burlesque
A gruesome Halloween, all the cruelty that I've seen
Grotesque, grotesque, grotesque and we're all to blame
Grotesque, grotesque, grotesque, we should hang our heads in shame
Hope you consider that animals feel pain the same as we
Barbaric slaughter so you can put meat on the table to feed yourself
I hope you choke yourself to death on the very first bite
We are accountable, we are the choices that we make
And there's no reason for cruelty towards those that can't
Defend themselves, well, it's obscene that someone gets fat
From the pain and suffering of the innocent and defenseless
It's grotesque, a twisted burlesque
A gruesome Halloween, all the cruelty that I've seen
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
Always remember that gluttony precedes a fall
Kangaroo killers Adidas, battery farms just to feed us
Animals under the blade just another hide for the skin trade
It's grotesque, a twisted burlesque
A gruesome Halloween, all the cruelty that I've seen
Grotesque, grotesque, grotesque and we're all to blame
Grotesque, grotesque, grotesque, we should hang our heads in shame
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Grotesque Lyrics as written by Wayne Hussey
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