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"
Why'd you take that away from me
Just one taste and I needed a little more of your sweet honey
I want you to feel my pain
I want you, don't walk away
I need you, the time is right
I need to hold you tight
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, now it's time to turn the page
Rejection, What the fuck did I do
Rejection, why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, you broke me in two
Rejection, Rejection
What the fuck did I do
What did I do to deserve the blame
Remember this, and don't forget my name
Handle this shit before I rope ya
I'm gonna slit your throat before I smoke ya
Bet it all - but you don't own me
You tried to punk me - but you don't know me
You tried to blow me off without no question
You better pray for divine intervention
You really didn't think I'd let you walk away from me
Just one more time, I need to feel your lips around this piece
If you could come my way, what could I do to make you stay
Then you could penetrate my life, then you'd rip me up inside
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, Why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, Now it's time to turn the page
Rejection, What the fuck did I do
Rejection, Why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, you broke me in two
Rejection, Rejection
Pushing and crushing me, down on my knees
Taking and breaking, and making me scream
I can't contain this, I'll make you all bleed
You've opened me up, now you'll feel my disease
In my suffering (stop)
Suffering (dying too)
Even in my suffering, I'll make you believe
You can't believe I'll make you disappear
Occurred to me, and then it became clear
Rejected me, oh no, I don't think so
I'll take you out quick, don't even blink ..so
You cut me up and hung me out to dry
Got your itch, like a bitch, you made me cry...but
Retribution, confusion, illusion
hairline fracture, multiple contusion
Don't walk away
Just run away
Just one taste and I needed a little more of your sweet honey
I want you to feel my pain
I want you, don't walk away
I need you, the time is right
I need to hold you tight
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, now it's time to turn the page
Rejection, What the fuck did I do
Rejection, why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, you broke me in two
Rejection, Rejection
What the fuck did I do
What did I do to deserve the blame
Remember this, and don't forget my name
Handle this shit before I rope ya
I'm gonna slit your throat before I smoke ya
Bet it all - but you don't own me
You tried to punk me - but you don't know me
You tried to blow me off without no question
You better pray for divine intervention
You really didn't think I'd let you walk away from me
Just one more time, I need to feel your lips around this piece
If you could come my way, what could I do to make you stay
Then you could penetrate my life, then you'd rip me up inside
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, Why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, I can't believe you're gone
Rejection, Now it's time to turn the page
Rejection, What the fuck did I do
Rejection, Why'd you have to walk away
Rejection, you broke me in two
Rejection, Rejection
Pushing and crushing me, down on my knees
Taking and breaking, and making me scream
I can't contain this, I'll make you all bleed
You've opened me up, now you'll feel my disease
In my suffering (stop)
Suffering (dying too)
Even in my suffering, I'll make you believe
You can't believe I'll make you disappear
Occurred to me, and then it became clear
Rejected me, oh no, I don't think so
I'll take you out quick, don't even blink ..so
You cut me up and hung me out to dry
Got your itch, like a bitch, you made me cry...but
Retribution, confusion, illusion
hairline fracture, multiple contusion
Don't walk away
Just run away
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40 below summer is one of the most awesome bands...This is one of my favorite songs, and it rawks of course. Means a lot to me, cause I was rejected by someone that i really cared about, but he's asking all these questions and not getting a reply so he's getting pissed off and is thinking that if he can't find the answers then he'll just have to take it out on someone.
Agree'ed :D
it sounds like he says "Rejection - I can't believe our luck Rejection - Why'd you have to walk away Rejection - I can't believe you're gone Rejection - Now it's time to turn the page Rejection - What the fuck did I do Rejection - Why'd you have to walk away Rejection - you broke me in two REJECTION - REJECTION " at least to me it does... :) i think all 40bs songs in step into the sideshow rock, i haven't heard the other cd so i don't know... but i guess it probably rocks too
is it just me or is some of the words screwed up?