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"
Everybody, it's time to choose
Are you gunning for the reds or the blues?
In the end it is the same old news
The one race we will always lose
They make promises designed to please
But with their hands on the number ten keys
They take it all back - god dammit who needs
Enemies with MPs like these?
They don't represent me and you
These idiots don't have a clue
Even if they started out strong and true
Those qualities don't make it through
Smug liars, seat buyers
This whole method is wrong, this whole sham is a song
And every ballot day we all sing along, Yes you!
If you put your tick in the box you're saying, I believe
That these people will tell the truth, not deceive,
That this system, it works and deserves my vote
Well I can't, cos I don't. A plague on both!
I thought it was a well-known fact,
How these degenerates act
Spending our money on maids and crack
Why d'you all look so taken aback?
Don't tell me that you really
Expected anything more from this contemptible core
Who get rich by keeping us poor? When you
You put your tick in the box you're saying, I believe
That these people will tell the truth, not deceive,
That this system, it works and deserves my vote
Well I can't, cos I don't. A plague on both!
Poll night left or right? A fake fight. By my oath, a plague on both your houses!
Are you gunning for the reds or the blues?
In the end it is the same old news
The one race we will always lose
They make promises designed to please
But with their hands on the number ten keys
They take it all back - god dammit who needs
Enemies with MPs like these?
They don't represent me and you
These idiots don't have a clue
Even if they started out strong and true
Those qualities don't make it through
Smug liars, seat buyers
This whole method is wrong, this whole sham is a song
And every ballot day we all sing along, Yes you!
If you put your tick in the box you're saying, I believe
That these people will tell the truth, not deceive,
That this system, it works and deserves my vote
Well I can't, cos I don't. A plague on both!
I thought it was a well-known fact,
How these degenerates act
Spending our money on maids and crack
Why d'you all look so taken aback?
Don't tell me that you really
Expected anything more from this contemptible core
Who get rich by keeping us poor? When you
You put your tick in the box you're saying, I believe
That these people will tell the truth, not deceive,
That this system, it works and deserves my vote
Well I can't, cos I don't. A plague on both!
Poll night left or right? A fake fight. By my oath, a plague on both your houses!
Lyrics submitted by Haunted Devil
A Plague On Both Your Houses Lyrics as written by Daniel Kavanagh Angus Cowan
Lyrics © Mute Song Limited
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