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"
If you talk to Symbol, tell her I've moved on
I'm ghosting her 'cause I want it to be over
We had our laugh, we had our smile
I guess I know that I'm wrong
If she asks, tell her I'm back at home
Mostly alone in disruptive thinking
Erasing plans, erasing us
I guess I know that I'm wrong
When things are too nice for too long
I lose myself, I lose my what's good
Want to lash out, want to blow things up again
I want to blow them up now
I want to blow them up again
When we made love, I gave you a pet name
That didn't mean I wanted you to be my dog
Needing someone is such a weakness
I guess I know that I'm wrong
When things are too nice for too long
I lose myself, I lose what's good
Want to scape, want to blow things up again
I want to blow them up now
I want to blow them up again
If you talk to Symbol, tell her I've moved on
I'm ghosting her 'cause I want it to be over
Needing someone is such a weakness
I guess I know that I'm wrong
I guess I know that I'm wrong
Thinking of you in the anarchist zone
Shooting rockets at a drone
Trigger bombs with your flip phone
Kissing girls of broken glass
Washing off the sarin gas
Kill the rats, close the gates
Erase the United States
From your head
From your head, your head
Alone again, with the letter never sent
And me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though anyone would hate to hear its song
I read the letter aloud and then burn it
Guess I know way too much now to unlearn it
Teach yourself how to make love and then earn it
(Teach yourself how to make love and then earn it)
See me spark a personality flair
Breeding a style nobody would wear
I'm such a mongrel, I don't really care
(I'm such a mongrel, I don't really care)
Thine eyes say "God, I'm not into this yet"
Thine eyes say "kitty fly into my net"
It's all being recorded, how could we forget
(It's all being recorded, how could we forget)
I've been in the cache where your memories are stored
It's shocking how little in life we're adored
If we weren't filming ourselves, we'd get bored
(If we weren't filming ourselves, we'd get bored)
There is no anger, no I'm not as fragile as before
I've decided not to be a voyeur of this war (hey!)
Alone again, with the letter never sent
And me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though been alone, don't ever send
At me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though anyone would hate to hear its song
I'm ghosting her 'cause I want it to be over
We had our laugh, we had our smile
I guess I know that I'm wrong
If she asks, tell her I'm back at home
Mostly alone in disruptive thinking
Erasing plans, erasing us
I guess I know that I'm wrong
When things are too nice for too long
I lose myself, I lose my what's good
Want to lash out, want to blow things up again
I want to blow them up now
I want to blow them up again
When we made love, I gave you a pet name
That didn't mean I wanted you to be my dog
Needing someone is such a weakness
I guess I know that I'm wrong
When things are too nice for too long
I lose myself, I lose what's good
Want to scape, want to blow things up again
I want to blow them up now
I want to blow them up again
If you talk to Symbol, tell her I've moved on
I'm ghosting her 'cause I want it to be over
Needing someone is such a weakness
I guess I know that I'm wrong
I guess I know that I'm wrong
Thinking of you in the anarchist zone
Shooting rockets at a drone
Trigger bombs with your flip phone
Kissing girls of broken glass
Washing off the sarin gas
Kill the rats, close the gates
Erase the United States
From your head
From your head, your head
Alone again, with the letter never sent
And me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though anyone would hate to hear its song
I read the letter aloud and then burn it
Guess I know way too much now to unlearn it
Teach yourself how to make love and then earn it
(Teach yourself how to make love and then earn it)
See me spark a personality flair
Breeding a style nobody would wear
I'm such a mongrel, I don't really care
(I'm such a mongrel, I don't really care)
Thine eyes say "God, I'm not into this yet"
Thine eyes say "kitty fly into my net"
It's all being recorded, how could we forget
(It's all being recorded, how could we forget)
I've been in the cache where your memories are stored
It's shocking how little in life we're adored
If we weren't filming ourselves, we'd get bored
(If we weren't filming ourselves, we'd get bored)
There is no anger, no I'm not as fragile as before
I've decided not to be a voyeur of this war (hey!)
Alone again, with the letter never sent
And me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though been alone, don't ever send
At me like a swan with a broken neck who keeps singing
Even though anyone would hate to hear its song
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
If You Talk to Symbol/Hostility Voyeur Lyrics as written by Kevin Barnes
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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