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"
(Jonny 5)
What the fuck is that?
Barreling towards our Metropolis
From the deep water in the likeness of Lochness
Knockin' its noggin like a hockey stick hocking spit
Meltin' down the top of this planet like chocolates
Lava rocks slosh in his esophagus like lozenges
For every drop that drips down somebody
Starts talkin' shit
With the awkwardest sounds
The prophet says the opposite
We've got to stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
Elevate like geysers and rise like helium
Together Colorado show 'em how the west is really one
I'll rap till my finger's numb and leave your toes tinglin'
For heaven on earth slash blue planet kingdom come
I'm Jonny 5 but I act like Wall-E till the trash is sorted
Into more practicaler forms like stacks of quarters
I am I b bee surviving colony collapse disorder
Stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
(Brer Rabbit)
Aooooga, aooooga, booga, booga
Antichrist pulls up in a bad mini cooper
Fabulous doo and a vocab I woulda stayed in school for
Says he's overdue but was beach bummin' in Newport
So he says, what's new sport
I said, stoppin' you of course
He says, you have the better chance of slobbing the nob of a unicorn
I stuck around the cuneiform and told the spawn of Lucifer
The shoelessness of his backside we had a solution for
We rise at the end like a standing ovation
Lay it on thick for those with thin patience
Keep in touch with the good like holding
Newborn babies
All the while spittin' sicker than a mouth full of rabies
Our maybes are certain
No closing of curtains
Our maydays are milkshakes for the social still forming
From storming to norming to fighting to see a new day
(Jonny 5)
We stand for the Wii like Nintendo tennis
In the land of the free
Revolution is key quinoa lentils spinach
And we're about to change the game
Treat it like a scrimmage
Preach to the choir when the minister's finished
Speak and inspire like Dennis Kucinich
Reaching for hire like the apprentice
Leaving 'em red up and awe like dentists
Perking up antennas
It's worth a shot man tetanus
To overturn the sentence
Making records
Book worldwide
Like Guinness
Your witness
What the fuck is that?
Barreling towards our Metropolis
From the deep water in the likeness of Lochness
Knockin' its noggin like a hockey stick hocking spit
Meltin' down the top of this planet like chocolates
Lava rocks slosh in his esophagus like lozenges
For every drop that drips down somebody
Starts talkin' shit
With the awkwardest sounds
The prophet says the opposite
We've got to stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
Elevate like geysers and rise like helium
Together Colorado show 'em how the west is really one
I'll rap till my finger's numb and leave your toes tinglin'
For heaven on earth slash blue planet kingdom come
I'm Jonny 5 but I act like Wall-E till the trash is sorted
Into more practicaler forms like stacks of quarters
I am I b bee surviving colony collapse disorder
Stop, stop, stop the apocalypse
(Brer Rabbit)
Aooooga, aooooga, booga, booga
Antichrist pulls up in a bad mini cooper
Fabulous doo and a vocab I woulda stayed in school for
Says he's overdue but was beach bummin' in Newport
So he says, what's new sport
I said, stoppin' you of course
He says, you have the better chance of slobbing the nob of a unicorn
I stuck around the cuneiform and told the spawn of Lucifer
The shoelessness of his backside we had a solution for
We rise at the end like a standing ovation
Lay it on thick for those with thin patience
Keep in touch with the good like holding
Newborn babies
All the while spittin' sicker than a mouth full of rabies
Our maybes are certain
No closing of curtains
Our maydays are milkshakes for the social still forming
From storming to norming to fighting to see a new day
(Jonny 5)
We stand for the Wii like Nintendo tennis
In the land of the free
Revolution is key quinoa lentils spinach
And we're about to change the game
Treat it like a scrimmage
Preach to the choir when the minister's finished
Speak and inspire like Dennis Kucinich
Reaching for hire like the apprentice
Leaving 'em red up and awe like dentists
Perking up antennas
It's worth a shot man tetanus
To overturn the sentence
Making records
Book worldwide
Like Guinness
Your witness
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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