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"
Long after midnight, on a night like this
I'd sit by my black light and dream of your kiss
Pulsating music filled my room and my head
And I dreamed what it'd be like to have you in my bed
I'm your best nightmare
And then it happened, you were in my arms
Your lips on my throat your hands on my, on my
Two bodies together the intimate sin
The pain and the pleasure could do mortals in
How could you know what I'm thinking of
To me lust can be as beautiful as love
Here tonight, your pure heart and soul
Untainted passion should have no control
She asked me if I
I told her the truth
I said I'm sorry it takes me longer than you
She smiled and blushed and continued to grind
And promised to make me go out of my mind
returning her promise she came to a halt
Licking my lips I tasted her salt
Then she sat up and gasped and clutched at her breast
I thought she was coming I'd never have guessed that
As she grew pale, as white as a flower
She collapsed to the floor and was dead in an hour
I'm your best nightmare
I'd sit by my black light and dream of your kiss
Pulsating music filled my room and my head
And I dreamed what it'd be like to have you in my bed
I'm your best nightmare
And then it happened, you were in my arms
Your lips on my throat your hands on my, on my
Two bodies together the intimate sin
The pain and the pleasure could do mortals in
How could you know what I'm thinking of
To me lust can be as beautiful as love
Here tonight, your pure heart and soul
Untainted passion should have no control
She asked me if I
I told her the truth
I said I'm sorry it takes me longer than you
She smiled and blushed and continued to grind
And promised to make me go out of my mind
returning her promise she came to a halt
Licking my lips I tasted her salt
Then she sat up and gasped and clutched at her breast
I thought she was coming I'd never have guessed that
As she grew pale, as white as a flower
She collapsed to the floor and was dead in an hour
I'm your best nightmare
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I'm guessing its about sex?
The song is about a guy who has fantasized about sleeping with a certain girl (most likely a very moral unreachable girl) for quite some time. I take it that she loves him, and he does not love her back, from lyrics like: She asked me if I... I told her the truth I said "I'm sorry it takes me longer than you" & To me lust can be as beautiful as love
so... he gets his wish to sleep with her, and while they're going at it, she tells him she's going to make him go crazy and then falls over dead. My guess would be (and I know this is digging into the song a little too much) that she probably took something to off herself, because he only lusted for her and it broke her heart, and she wanted him to feel the pain she did.
honestly this song has no deep life meanings, unless you want to buy into the lyricist having had something similar to this actually happen to him.
I am thinking that this song is about sex and fantasies um no doubt, but the chick ends up choking on his penis or cum or something cuz of
"...And promised to make me go out of my mind Returning her promise she came to a halt Licking my lips I tasted her salt Then she sat up and gasped..."
but she likes it and it was her cuase of death so yet it was good and yet a nightmare, but she just wanted to please him for she loved him.
or she died out of his mind for she was jsut a fantasy.
But Besides all that it is a wonderful song.
the song is about dreaming about the perfect girl that you've always wanted and dreamed about. finnaly, he gets this girl, but as soon as he finds her, she dies on him, which is why its his "best nightmare".
I don't know that this song has any deep meaning . . . I think it's supposed to be a little funny. I mean, superficially it's basically about a guy killing a girl with sex.
'She asked me if I... I told her the truth I said "I'm sorry it takes me longer than you"'
A previous user connected these lyrics with love, but to me this song is all about lust ("To me lust can be as beautiful as love"), and these particular lyrics refer to coming during sex. Dirty, I know. ;) Anyway, he's "your best nightmare" because he's a good lay only his sex will kill ya!
Jeez, Sean has stated that this song is a simple fun Edward Gorey-like story about a girl who dies during sex. I mean, that's pretty obvious from the lyrics.