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"
I saw a white finger on a barbed wire fence
I knew it was dangerous but I took the risk
And yes it was sweet so sweet to eat
Now see how the flesh is pricked and bleeds
Yeah, it bleeds it bleeds, see how it bleeds
It bleeds, see how it bleeds
I saw a little baby crawling down the street
I said hey come over here baby
Cause you look beautiful to eat
I said come over, dear
You know what I'll do
Well I'll make you my mirror
Of the things that I chew
Little Yum-Yab little Yum-Yab
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab come slash your wrist
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab gimme a kiss
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab come slash your wrist
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab gimme a kiss
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out, ah-out
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
I'll blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out, ah-out
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Now blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Now blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
I knew it was dangerous but I took the risk
And yes it was sweet so sweet to eat
Now see how the flesh is pricked and bleeds
Yeah, it bleeds it bleeds, see how it bleeds
It bleeds, see how it bleeds
I saw a little baby crawling down the street
I said hey come over here baby
Cause you look beautiful to eat
I said come over, dear
You know what I'll do
Well I'll make you my mirror
Of the things that I chew
Little Yum-Yab little Yum-Yab
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab come slash your wrist
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab gimme a kiss
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab come slash your wrist
We are the wild we are the risk
Come little Yum-Yab gimme a kiss
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out, ah-out
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
I'll blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out, ah-out
And blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Now blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
Now blow your brains ah-out, ah ah-out
Ah-out
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