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"
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Calling all the demons, this is the season
Next stop is therapy
We're the retarded and the brokenhearted
The season of misery
Here's to the wasted
I can almost taste it
The rejects and waste of times
Gonna take it further
Get away with murder
And no one here is getting out alive
Here's to all God's losers
Ra da da da de
The bottom-feeder's frenzy
Here's to all blood suckers
Sing along with me
'Cause we don't say no scream 1, 2, 3
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Hey
We're too old to be misbehaved
We sold our souls and so ashamed of ourselves
So we wait for Miss Judgment Day
Write me a letter and send it to my grave
All fucked up beyond intervention
Fuck the world this is my revolution
Long lost souls and livin' in cages
I'm on a bender
It's one for the ages
I've got the urge to binge and surge
The tables turn to crash and burn
Juliana homicide
Make my demons come to life
Julianna homicide
Why won't you be my blushing bride
Chop me a line of my best friend's ashes
Dust to dust, when the red lights flashes
What the fuck does "OK" stand for,
When the afterlife is nothing worth dying for?
I've got the urge to binge and surge
The tables turn to crash and burn
Julianna homicide
Make my demons come to life
Oh, Julianna homicide
Oh, why won't you be my blushing bride, alright!
Wow
California's burning to the ground
And Julianna walks on holy ground
Where there's smoke there's fire
Burning out of the lights
'Cause California's burning down tonight
Tonight!
Calling all demons, this is the season
Next stop is therapy
We're the retarded and the brokenhearted
The season of misery
Here's to the wasted
I can almost taste it
The rejects and waste of times
Gonna take it further
Get away with murder
And no one here is getting out alive
Here's to all God's losers
Ra da da da de
The bottom-feeder's frenzy
Here's to all blood suckers
Sing along with me
'Cause we don't say no scream 1, 2, 3
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Calling all the demons, this is the season
Next stop is therapy
We're the retarded and the brokenhearted
The season of misery
Here's to the wasted
I can almost taste it
The rejects and waste of times
Gonna take it further
Get away with murder
And no one here is getting out alive
Here's to all God's losers
Ra da da da de
The bottom-feeder's frenzy
Here's to all blood suckers
Sing along with me
'Cause we don't say no scream 1, 2, 3
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Yeahhh, yeah, yeah
Hey
We're too old to be misbehaved
We sold our souls and so ashamed of ourselves
So we wait for Miss Judgment Day
Write me a letter and send it to my grave
All fucked up beyond intervention
Fuck the world this is my revolution
Long lost souls and livin' in cages
I'm on a bender
It's one for the ages
I've got the urge to binge and surge
The tables turn to crash and burn
Juliana homicide
Make my demons come to life
Julianna homicide
Why won't you be my blushing bride
Chop me a line of my best friend's ashes
Dust to dust, when the red lights flashes
What the fuck does "OK" stand for,
When the afterlife is nothing worth dying for?
I've got the urge to binge and surge
The tables turn to crash and burn
Julianna homicide
Make my demons come to life
Oh, Julianna homicide
Oh, why won't you be my blushing bride, alright!
Wow
California's burning to the ground
And Julianna walks on holy ground
Where there's smoke there's fire
Burning out of the lights
'Cause California's burning down tonight
Tonight!
Calling all demons, this is the season
Next stop is therapy
We're the retarded and the brokenhearted
The season of misery
Here's to the wasted
I can almost taste it
The rejects and waste of times
Gonna take it further
Get away with murder
And no one here is getting out alive
Here's to all God's losers
Ra da da da de
The bottom-feeder's frenzy
Here's to all blood suckers
Sing along with me
'Cause we don't say no scream 1, 2, 3
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
We're carried away, carried away, carried away
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