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"
[Intro: Klokateers chanting]
Searching. We must find him. (8x)
[Verse 1:Charles Foster Offdensen]
So much time has passed since Toki was taken. They left no trace of him. Of this, I’m not mistaken. This man, his abductor, with the silver face. A freakish deadly demon. A bastard a disgrace. Born and left alone, never knew his mother who was killed during birth but left him a brother. Together they would train and kill those that crossed their path. His Brother died in Mordhaus and now he blames the band so...
[Chorus:Klokateers](CFO)
We have our best men on it
What else are we supposed to do?
(We must track him, we must find him)We're trained to ex-filtrate him
(We must rescue him, we are running out of time.)They are so good, what can we do?
(We must track him, we must find him)We have our best men on it
(We must rescue him, we are running out of time.)What else are we supposed to do?
(Toki!)We're trained to ex-filtrate him
We know we must save his life! (If we don't hurry up then he just might die!)
[Verse 2:Elite Klokateer]
I report from the field information for thee
That we've hired the best man to find the abductee
He's the best tracker that is known around
And has exceptional equipment of sight and sound
(Other Klokateers)
He was raised by wolves, he can kill with his teeth
He can blend into shadows, he can hide in a tree
If he cannot find Toki, then nobody can...
[Elite]
I'm telling you sire, this is our man!
[CFO]
That's good! Where is he?
[Elite]
He's dead
[CFO]
Oh...throw him in the garbage
[Ishnifus Meaddle]
Don't throw him away, there's more we can do; the dead can sometimes talk and offer us a clue...
[Klokateer Medic]
Sire, there's a drive hid within this dead man's torso
We can play the video on the main computer console
[Magnus Hammersmith]
I see what you're doing and you're trying to kill me!
But I won't let that happen, cause I still got Toki!
If you send another man, we will kill her, and he
I'll be waiting here for Dethklok in the Depths of Humanity!
[Chorus]
(CFO)If we don't hurry up, then he just might die!
We must call off the search...
They have the upper hand
I've failed at my work...
And I've failed this band
[Ishnifus]
You mustn't worry, my friend...for you see there is an answer. I know what we have to do
[CFO]
(mutters)All right, let's hear it...
[Ishnifus]
Gentlemen, I must speak to you on behalf of The Church of the Black Klok
My words will never be as weighty as they are right now; this is a challenge for you
[Nathan Explosion]
I already don't like the sound of this
[Ishnifus]
Many years from now you'll know this moment was the one that proved your spirit
You must go in alone and save your brother--
[Nathan]
You mean co-worker
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]
You means rhythms guitarist!
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[Pickles the Drummer]
Not brother, BANDMATE
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[William Murderface]
Um, stop saying 'brother'; you're grossing us out, thank you
[Ishnifus]
You must be heroes
I await your decision...
Searching. We must find him. (8x)
[Verse 1:Charles Foster Offdensen]
So much time has passed since Toki was taken. They left no trace of him. Of this, I’m not mistaken. This man, his abductor, with the silver face. A freakish deadly demon. A bastard a disgrace. Born and left alone, never knew his mother who was killed during birth but left him a brother. Together they would train and kill those that crossed their path. His Brother died in Mordhaus and now he blames the band so...
[Chorus:Klokateers](CFO)
We have our best men on it
What else are we supposed to do?
(We must track him, we must find him)We're trained to ex-filtrate him
(We must rescue him, we are running out of time.)They are so good, what can we do?
(We must track him, we must find him)We have our best men on it
(We must rescue him, we are running out of time.)What else are we supposed to do?
(Toki!)We're trained to ex-filtrate him
We know we must save his life! (If we don't hurry up then he just might die!)
[Verse 2:Elite Klokateer]
I report from the field information for thee
That we've hired the best man to find the abductee
He's the best tracker that is known around
And has exceptional equipment of sight and sound
(Other Klokateers)
He was raised by wolves, he can kill with his teeth
He can blend into shadows, he can hide in a tree
If he cannot find Toki, then nobody can...
[Elite]
I'm telling you sire, this is our man!
[CFO]
That's good! Where is he?
[Elite]
He's dead
[CFO]
Oh...throw him in the garbage
[Ishnifus Meaddle]
Don't throw him away, there's more we can do; the dead can sometimes talk and offer us a clue...
[Klokateer Medic]
Sire, there's a drive hid within this dead man's torso
We can play the video on the main computer console
[Magnus Hammersmith]
I see what you're doing and you're trying to kill me!
But I won't let that happen, cause I still got Toki!
If you send another man, we will kill her, and he
I'll be waiting here for Dethklok in the Depths of Humanity!
[Chorus]
(CFO)If we don't hurry up, then he just might die!
We must call off the search...
They have the upper hand
I've failed at my work...
And I've failed this band
[Ishnifus]
You mustn't worry, my friend...for you see there is an answer. I know what we have to do
[CFO]
(mutters)All right, let's hear it...
[Ishnifus]
Gentlemen, I must speak to you on behalf of The Church of the Black Klok
My words will never be as weighty as they are right now; this is a challenge for you
[Nathan Explosion]
I already don't like the sound of this
[Ishnifus]
Many years from now you'll know this moment was the one that proved your spirit
You must go in alone and save your brother--
[Nathan]
You mean co-worker
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]
You means rhythms guitarist!
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[Pickles the Drummer]
Not brother, BANDMATE
[Ishnifus]
I mean brother...
[William Murderface]
Um, stop saying 'brother'; you're grossing us out, thank you
[Ishnifus]
You must be heroes
I await your decision...
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
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