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"
The TV tells us to be scared
We'd make a difference if we cared
We put our lives all up for sale
We get our truth in the Daily Mail
It's madness
Get used to it
Another unit to be sold
Pig-love is all we'll ever know
So we're gonna live like animals
We're gonna live like animals
It's madness
It's gone to shit
And now the kids are opening their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So drink our blood like a parasite
For occupation, socialite
Just looking for another hit
Opinion's what you say it is
It's tragic
Could get used to it
So write your name as you come in
In case we want to kick you out
We're gonna make 'em build a wall
We're gonna live like animals
It's madness
It's gone to shit
If you're a something, don't ask for nothing
If you're a nothing, don't ask for something
If you're a something, don't ask for nothing
If you're a nothing, don't ask for something
And now the kids are opening up their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up
This ain't a dream
'Cause everything's exactly how it seems
And now the kids are opening their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up
This ain't a dream
'Cause everything's exactly how it seems
So wake up
We'd make a difference if we cared
We put our lives all up for sale
We get our truth in the Daily Mail
It's madness
Get used to it
Another unit to be sold
Pig-love is all we'll ever know
So we're gonna live like animals
We're gonna live like animals
It's madness
It's gone to shit
And now the kids are opening their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So drink our blood like a parasite
For occupation, socialite
Just looking for another hit
Opinion's what you say it is
It's tragic
Could get used to it
So write your name as you come in
In case we want to kick you out
We're gonna make 'em build a wall
We're gonna live like animals
It's madness
It's gone to shit
If you're a something, don't ask for nothing
If you're a nothing, don't ask for something
If you're a something, don't ask for nothing
If you're a nothing, don't ask for something
And now the kids are opening up their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up
This ain't a dream
'Cause everything's exactly how it seems
And now the kids are opening their eyes
And now the kids are starting up a fire
Dancing around, dancing around the light
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up, so wake up
So wake up
This ain't a dream
'Cause everything's exactly how it seems
So wake up
Lyrics submitted by BlueDiamondx3
Live Like Animals Lyrics as written by Dominic Alexander Roberto Craik Conor Mason
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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"The TV tells us to be scared" is referring to the mainstream media.
"Pig-love is all we know" is probably a jab at all the unpopular politicians that have been uncovered as corrupt, but almost certainly the president.
"Now the kids are starting a fire, dancing around, dancing around the light" This refers to all the protests that have been taking place in the last couple of years.
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@Larpskur _ YEP - that's exactly what I got out of it. LOVE this song. Great rif too :) "We get our truth from the daily mail" (fake news-haha) Write your name when you come in - in case we want to kick you out! (sound familiar) We're gonna make'm build a wall ... NEW US Anthem.. (ha)