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"
Oh my God
Oh my goodness
Please
Please don't kill me
Please
Please
When it same, it same quickly, and it same with no warning
The end of the world none were left for the mourning
Except the ones who had gone underground
As the surface-dwellers died they could barely hear the sound
Maybe the human race had time to scream
As the blackness came to their blue-sky dream
Everything came to an end that night
And you would die of fright if you didn't die outright
It was just another day when the air burned away
And the sky was on fire and stayed that way
There was little left but somehow you survived
Though it was a couple hundred years til you could go outside
Dying all the time
Eating rocks and clay
Maybe you'd be happier
With your body burned away
Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
Did you ever have a nightmare and it turned into a dream
But then it went the other way and that time it made you scream
Did you ever take a life when it's pulsing red and hot
Then you wouldn't, then you would
Then you will, then you think you'd rather not
Have you ever felt you haven't when you found out that you had
Then you did then you didn't and it made you really mad
Have you been on the air but felt all alone
When you copied the curse and they drilled you like a drone
He's Mister Perfect
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
He's our mortal enemy, bringing death and no TV
He's Mister Perfect
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
He's a fucking a-hole and his head is gonna roll
Gazing into the future
What visions do I see?
Two unblinking eyes fucking staring back at me
His people call him perfect but I can see his fraud
The latest losing edition of the latest man-made God
It was quite a shock when you ran out of time
You thought you'd go to heaven where everything is fine
Because all that you lived for - it became a lie
But Mr. Perfect loves it cuz he lives for you to die.
He's coming through time to chop off my balls
Drain them of juice and nail them to the wall
Feeds on his followers
Wherever they are
But the ultimate feast is
When he dines on GWAR
Gives him the power to swallow the sun
Then he'll be all alone, then he'll be the only one
I swear defiance
And non-compliance
To the bloody black flag
Of the United State
of DEATH
And to the abyss
By which we stand
We defy you
We deny you
As you spread ignorance and futility to all
Oh my goodness
Please
Please don't kill me
Please
Please
When it same, it same quickly, and it same with no warning
The end of the world none were left for the mourning
Except the ones who had gone underground
As the surface-dwellers died they could barely hear the sound
Maybe the human race had time to scream
As the blackness came to their blue-sky dream
Everything came to an end that night
And you would die of fright if you didn't die outright
It was just another day when the air burned away
And the sky was on fire and stayed that way
There was little left but somehow you survived
Though it was a couple hundred years til you could go outside
Dying all the time
Eating rocks and clay
Maybe you'd be happier
With your body burned away
Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
Did you ever have a nightmare and it turned into a dream
But then it went the other way and that time it made you scream
Did you ever take a life when it's pulsing red and hot
Then you wouldn't, then you would
Then you will, then you think you'd rather not
Have you ever felt you haven't when you found out that you had
Then you did then you didn't and it made you really mad
Have you been on the air but felt all alone
When you copied the curse and they drilled you like a drone
He's Mister Perfect
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
He's our mortal enemy, bringing death and no TV
He's Mister Perfect
Mister P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P
Perfect!
He's a fucking a-hole and his head is gonna roll
Gazing into the future
What visions do I see?
Two unblinking eyes fucking staring back at me
His people call him perfect but I can see his fraud
The latest losing edition of the latest man-made God
It was quite a shock when you ran out of time
You thought you'd go to heaven where everything is fine
Because all that you lived for - it became a lie
But Mr. Perfect loves it cuz he lives for you to die.
He's coming through time to chop off my balls
Drain them of juice and nail them to the wall
Feeds on his followers
Wherever they are
But the ultimate feast is
When he dines on GWAR
Gives him the power to swallow the sun
Then he'll be all alone, then he'll be the only one
I swear defiance
And non-compliance
To the bloody black flag
Of the United State
of DEATH
And to the abyss
By which we stand
We defy you
We deny you
As you spread ignorance and futility to all
Lyrics submitted by syko_brat
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