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"
Don't you dare
Interrupt the white house ball,
Were living scared
It's in foreign fields the soldiers fall
Ooh la la la
Snatch em in the prime, go ahead that's fine, that's fine
Just go drill for grease
Like a diamond thief
There mamas will be alright
Just give em time,
Go get you money right
You wont loose no sleep tonight
Nominate your kids I think they'd prove your theory right
Would you watch them die
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Look up look up,
See a dead man walking,
See his baby face
Hey lets duplicate a few,
Ooh la la la la
That don't mean much to you
If you need some help,
Send some hippies in to help you think more than you do
Hows about another line or two,
To pick u up, pick u up
While your people drown
I hope your happy and you sleep so great at night
While the lovers cry
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
How many lives will you sacrifice,
Will you ever be satisfied
If in god you trust,
Can't you hear him still
I ain't no preacher but
Thou shalt not kill
Govermental, confusion
Govermentalist, delusion
Govermental confusion
A bunch of govermentalist, it's delusion
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
Govermental, confusion
Govermentalist, delusion
Govermental confusion
A bunch of govermentalist, it's delusion
And all that were left with is a hand full of nothing,
Hand full of nothing
That's all that I got
Hand full of nothing
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
Interrupt the white house ball,
Were living scared
It's in foreign fields the soldiers fall
Ooh la la la
Snatch em in the prime, go ahead that's fine, that's fine
Just go drill for grease
Like a diamond thief
There mamas will be alright
Just give em time,
Go get you money right
You wont loose no sleep tonight
Nominate your kids I think they'd prove your theory right
Would you watch them die
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Look up look up,
See a dead man walking,
See his baby face
Hey lets duplicate a few,
Ooh la la la la
That don't mean much to you
If you need some help,
Send some hippies in to help you think more than you do
Hows about another line or two,
To pick u up, pick u up
While your people drown
I hope your happy and you sleep so great at night
While the lovers cry
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
How many lives will you sacrifice,
Will you ever be satisfied
If in god you trust,
Can't you hear him still
I ain't no preacher but
Thou shalt not kill
Govermental, confusion
Govermentalist, delusion
Govermental confusion
A bunch of govermentalist, it's delusion
Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water,
Coming up with nothing every time
How come we ain't getting any closer
Tryna find the truth behind the lies
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
Govermental, confusion
Govermentalist, delusion
Govermental confusion
A bunch of govermentalist, it's delusion
And all that were left with is a hand full of nothing,
Hand full of nothing
That's all that I got
Hand full of nothing
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
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Governmentalist Lyrics as written by Hayley Carline Connor Reeves
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