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"
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Do you want a ride on my death machine?
Pump a dime in if you do
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah, I kill what I need
Yeah, I kill what I need
When I die won't you bury me?
'Cause I buried you, baby, deep in me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Cut it open
What's inside?
You drag me back there
Yeah, I want to know
Baby, I said I want to know
Never know, never know
Cut it open
Say pretty please
You'll drag it to the
Yeah, I want to know
Baby, I said I want to know
Never know, never know
And when I die, won't you bury me?
'Cause I buried you, baby, deep in me
Yeah, when you fall for the garbage man
You wind up in the garbage
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Do you want a ride on my death machine?
Pump a dime in if you do
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah, I kill what I need
Yeah, I kill what I need
When I die won't you bury me?
'Cause I buried you, baby, deep in me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Cut it open
What's inside?
You drag me back there
Yeah, I want to know
Baby, I said I want to know
Never know, never know
Cut it open
Say pretty please
You'll drag it to the
Yeah, I want to know
Baby, I said I want to know
Never know, never know
And when I die, won't you bury me?
'Cause I buried you, baby, deep in me
Yeah, when you fall for the garbage man
You wind up in the garbage
Lyrics submitted by ShiverForMe, edited by scottdoesntknow628
Berry Lyrics as written by Courtney M Love Caroline Rue
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Lyrics correction- 'Do you wanna ride on my death machine Fucking died in if you love'='Do you wanna ride on my death machine, who Fucking died and made you the-' 'I kill what I mean Yah I kill what I meet'= 'ye I kill what I name, ye I kill what I name/made'... When I die wont you berry me Coz I buried you baby Deep in me...brilliant line, kinda ironic
this song is so great, but them lyrics are way off
this song IS great. good lyrics. i love courtneys voice in this. so powerful.
This is a really good song. One of the best of the first Hole album. It's hard to explain what it's about but roughly I always interpreted as being about someone who doesn't really care, maybe a boyfriend who doesn't really care but the other person is infaturated with them and doesn't see what a loser they are. Yeah, basically someone who finds themselves attracted to assholes and likes to hang around people who aren't as good as them.
Suicide.
I think it's about sex ("ride on my death machine", "buried deep in me"). I always found the last two lines intriguing.
I think this song is about prostitution and deadly STDs, probably AIDS (it was written during a time when the HIV virus was a death sentence). Viruses look like berries and, as parasites, they kill what they need. The prostitute is the death machine offering sex for money, with viruses buried deep inside her that will cause her death and maybe infect others ("When I die, won't you bury me? Cause I buried you, baby, deep in me" meaning she speaks to the man who transmitted her the deadly virus). "Cut it open" means she is doing the HIV test, "I wanna know", and "now I know" - now she knows she is HIV positive, and that she caught the deadly virus from the garbage man.