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"
Where are you annoying little bugger?
Oh I'm gonna find you!!!
Get over here!
Aha! There you are! Hehe.
Shit.
You're on a roll, you're on a streak, another day, another week
You've set your goal on letting dreams beat-up reality
The word is out and on the streets, the world keeps coming after me
I lose my touch and feed my fears “Crazy meals upstairs they creep”
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates .
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Won't let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Let go!
Another night, another fight, your head-locked squeezed between a vice
You know it's wrong but feels so right, let go and let me remind you
When on your own and on your knees, another night, another feat
You meant you'd go by letting love reach out and set you free
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates .
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Just let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Well, well I'll be damned!
That's right it's me, the bug in you who just loves to chew the brains right out of your head.
I know how you are and know exactly what you do to make you crawl into that dark, deep, depressive mode and then crush you like a grape, just the way I like it.
Watch me, watch out.
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Unleash me
Well here we go again. I'm on the groove and I'm chiseling my way.
Not a minute too soon, through your heart and soul, where there's a big black hole which happens to be the trademark of my love.
And if you dare try to fix it or decide to resolutely repaint it and embellish its illicit content, I'll trap rally-up and make sure I mess it all up for ya'.
Unleash me
Gotcha!
Oh I'm gonna find you!!!
Get over here!
Aha! There you are! Hehe.
Shit.
You're on a roll, you're on a streak, another day, another week
You've set your goal on letting dreams beat-up reality
The word is out and on the streets, the world keeps coming after me
I lose my touch and feed my fears “Crazy meals upstairs they creep”
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates .
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Won't let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Let go!
Another night, another fight, your head-locked squeezed between a vice
You know it's wrong but feels so right, let go and let me remind you
When on your own and on your knees, another night, another feat
You meant you'd go by letting love reach out and set you free
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates .
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Just let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Well, well I'll be damned!
That's right it's me, the bug in you who just loves to chew the brains right out of your head.
I know how you are and know exactly what you do to make you crawl into that dark, deep, depressive mode and then crush you like a grape, just the way I like it.
Watch me, watch out.
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Unleash me
Well here we go again. I'm on the groove and I'm chiseling my way.
Not a minute too soon, through your heart and soul, where there's a big black hole which happens to be the trademark of my love.
And if you dare try to fix it or decide to resolutely repaint it and embellish its illicit content, I'll trap rally-up and make sure I mess it all up for ya'.
Unleash me
Gotcha!
Lyrics submitted by HDS
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