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"
Jason, you're too fucking metal man
Too metal for your own good
You guys want some more don't ya
we're just getting warmed up now man
how about some more old shit from kill em all eh
you don't mind if we speed it up some huh?
So, we need to see some action out there if you fucking don't know by now
makes us feel real fucking good
so, uh, get your dancing shoes on.
you know the words follow me motherfucker
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash)
hey man, I need to see some action out there
come on you pussies!
yeah, you guessed it, it's whiplash
one two four three two and a half
Late at night all systems go
come to see the show
We do our best, you're the rest
You make it real you know
There is a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash) yeah whiplash
Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring, make it bleed
Make it fucking sore
In a frenzied madness
With your leather and your spikes
Heads are bobbing all around
It is hot as hell tonight
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
what is it? (Whiplash )
it's fucking whiplash
Here on the stage the Marshall noise
Is piercing through your ears
It kicks your ass kick your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to maim and kill
'Cause this is what we choose
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash) yeah, give it to me one time
hey hey hey (hey hey hey hey) yeah, here we go
yeah whiplash. get it and fuck em up
The show is through the metal is gone
It is time to hit the road
Another town, another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop we will never quit
'Cause you're Metallica
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
hey hey (hey hey hey hey hey)
yeah
thank you Mexico city, we'll see you around
good night from Metallica
thank you!
Too metal for your own good
You guys want some more don't ya
we're just getting warmed up now man
how about some more old shit from kill em all eh
you don't mind if we speed it up some huh?
So, we need to see some action out there if you fucking don't know by now
makes us feel real fucking good
so, uh, get your dancing shoes on.
you know the words follow me motherfucker
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash)
hey man, I need to see some action out there
come on you pussies!
yeah, you guessed it, it's whiplash
one two four three two and a half
Late at night all systems go
come to see the show
We do our best, you're the rest
You make it real you know
There is a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash) yeah whiplash
Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring, make it bleed
Make it fucking sore
In a frenzied madness
With your leather and your spikes
Heads are bobbing all around
It is hot as hell tonight
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
what is it? (Whiplash )
it's fucking whiplash
Here on the stage the Marshall noise
Is piercing through your ears
It kicks your ass kick your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to maim and kill
'Cause this is what we choose
Adrenaline starts to flow
thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
(Whiplash) yeah, give it to me one time
hey hey hey (hey hey hey hey) yeah, here we go
yeah whiplash. get it and fuck em up
The show is through the metal is gone
It is time to hit the road
Another town, another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop we will never quit
'Cause you're Metallica
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
hey hey (hey hey hey hey hey)
yeah
thank you Mexico city, we'll see you around
good night from Metallica
thank you!
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@Testahead What are you talking about they are doing so well right now with so many tours and new songs they aren't going to for a long time