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"
Devil's got a cut, like a slit in a cattles calf
Dollar sign snakes, I'm all in the damned
Godless, fearless of the flood
Or the blood of the coming spring
Something is shedding its scales
Crying from the heat of the light
Or the empty shell on the stage
And cash is a poor man's money
And cash is a poor man's money
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Open your mouth, love
Like a gutted church
My goat horns are napalm trees
And a crown of thorns is hard to swallow
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
You say "God", I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Say, say, say 10
Say, say, say 10
Dollar sign snakes, I'm all in the damned
Godless, fearless of the flood
Or the blood of the coming spring
Something is shedding its scales
Crying from the heat of the light
Or the empty shell on the stage
And cash is a poor man's money
And cash is a poor man's money
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Open your mouth, love
Like a gutted church
My goat horns are napalm trees
And a crown of thorns is hard to swallow
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
You say "God", I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
Cocaine and Abel, I don't baptize whores
I'm a legend, I'm not a fable
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You should pray now
Is it above or is it below?
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
You say "God" and I say "Say 10"
Say, say, say 10
Say, say, say 10
Say, say, say 10
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
SAY10 Lyrics as written by Tyler Lee Bates Brian Hugh Warner
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Pretty sure it's "Gash is a poor man's money" Like vagina.
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