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"
[Verse 1]
Well it was just
5 guys on a night out (Oh)
Looks like they could box your lights out
Insatiable hunger
Looking for the one they could take home right now
They're all getting salty
Wanna be sonic, but they're not fast enough
Wanna be that Mac Daddy
But this game of thrones is just too tough
You can't be the king if you taste like shit
The other 4 guys don't mind a bit
And these Randy Bo Bandy's are so demanding
Knock that pat flat but I'm still standing
Wendy's just another silly girl I knew but those days are all long gone
If you were right the first time then how could you be wrong?
[Chorus]
Oh, you're 23 years old now
Stick with what you know
The burger joint just down the road seems like the place to go
Oh, it's comfortable and inviting and it won't tell you lies
I want that bacon cheeseburger with those damn good fries
[Verse 2]
Well I was just
Feeling kinda greasy
Backstreets feels kinda sleazy
Prices hiked as high as your tights
And I can't help just feeling queasy
Thank God it's Friday
Said nobody ever as we all flew out the door
Acting up like a dairy queen and a size queen's always wanting more
KFC more like JFC
I wanna try something new to me
In with excitement, out with scoff
This disappointment can fudd ruck off
Annie might be fun, but I'll never shack
If I die before then of a heart attack
If there's never a first time
Then how can I come back?
[Chorus]
Oh, you're 23 years old now
Stick with what you know
The burger joint just down the road seems like the place to go
Oh, it's comfortable and inviting and it won't tell you lies
I want that bacon cheeseburger with those damn good fries
[Outro] x4
Have your burger however you like
No I don't mind, no I don't mind
I'm just looking for the right one for me
Don't care how it long it takes to find
However you like
No I don't mind, no I don't mind
I know she's the right one for me
Takes the stress away from the daily grind
Well it was just
5 guys on a night out (Oh)
Looks like they could box your lights out
Insatiable hunger
Looking for the one they could take home right now
They're all getting salty
Wanna be sonic, but they're not fast enough
Wanna be that Mac Daddy
But this game of thrones is just too tough
You can't be the king if you taste like shit
The other 4 guys don't mind a bit
And these Randy Bo Bandy's are so demanding
Knock that pat flat but I'm still standing
Wendy's just another silly girl I knew but those days are all long gone
If you were right the first time then how could you be wrong?
[Chorus]
Oh, you're 23 years old now
Stick with what you know
The burger joint just down the road seems like the place to go
Oh, it's comfortable and inviting and it won't tell you lies
I want that bacon cheeseburger with those damn good fries
[Verse 2]
Well I was just
Feeling kinda greasy
Backstreets feels kinda sleazy
Prices hiked as high as your tights
And I can't help just feeling queasy
Thank God it's Friday
Said nobody ever as we all flew out the door
Acting up like a dairy queen and a size queen's always wanting more
KFC more like JFC
I wanna try something new to me
In with excitement, out with scoff
This disappointment can fudd ruck off
Annie might be fun, but I'll never shack
If I die before then of a heart attack
If there's never a first time
Then how can I come back?
[Chorus]
Oh, you're 23 years old now
Stick with what you know
The burger joint just down the road seems like the place to go
Oh, it's comfortable and inviting and it won't tell you lies
I want that bacon cheeseburger with those damn good fries
[Outro] x4
Have your burger however you like
No I don't mind, no I don't mind
I'm just looking for the right one for me
Don't care how it long it takes to find
However you like
No I don't mind, no I don't mind
I know she's the right one for me
Takes the stress away from the daily grind
Lyrics submitted by hornedCapybara
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@hornedCapybara <br /> objectum-sexuality.org/<br /> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_sexuality