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"
You got me forced to crack my lids in two
I'm still stuck inside the rubber room
I gotta punch the clock that leads the blind
I'm just another gear in the assembly line-oh no
The noose gets tighter around my throat
But I ain't at the end of my rope
'Cause I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Get it?
A routine injection, a lethal dose
But my day in the sun ain't even close
There's no need to waste your prayers on me
You better mark my words 'cause I'm history, yes indeed
You might beg for mercy to get by
But I'd rather tear this thorn from my side
'Cause I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
They swallowed their daggers by turning their trick
They tore my intentions apart brick by brick
I'm sick of the jive
You talk verbal insecticide
They swallowed their daggers by turning their trick
They tore my intentions apart brick by brick
I'm sick of the jive
You talk verbal insecticide
I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
I said slave to the grind
Slave to the grind, slave to the grind
I'm still stuck inside the rubber room
I gotta punch the clock that leads the blind
I'm just another gear in the assembly line-oh no
The noose gets tighter around my throat
But I ain't at the end of my rope
'Cause I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Get it?
A routine injection, a lethal dose
But my day in the sun ain't even close
There's no need to waste your prayers on me
You better mark my words 'cause I'm history, yes indeed
You might beg for mercy to get by
But I'd rather tear this thorn from my side
'Cause I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
They swallowed their daggers by turning their trick
They tore my intentions apart brick by brick
I'm sick of the jive
You talk verbal insecticide
They swallowed their daggers by turning their trick
They tore my intentions apart brick by brick
I'm sick of the jive
You talk verbal insecticide
I won't be the one left behind
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
I said slave to the grind
Slave to the grind, slave to the grind
Lyrics submitted by thekronic420
Slave To The Grind Lyrics as written by Rachel Southworth David Michael Sabo
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it's about how life sucks and everyone's corrupt and racist and the people in power put their beliefs and preferences over what most need and you can't do a damn thing about it because they think you're inferior even though you're not but it doesn't matter because they have power, they fucking like it, and they don't want you to have it so you don't because they do.
Yeah woo! Conformism suxs goat
I think this is about not running in the rat race of moder life and letting it take control of you. You've got to do your own thing, be free and happy so you're not tied down and a slave to the modern capitalistic society - unless that makes you happy I suppose.
We're all slaves to the freakin' grind- we have to live by the timelines and expectations of those around us. This song is about breaking away from that and living your own life- something we can all take to heart.
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i remember when i was at my last job this girl said 'so its back to the grind' i didn't understand her. but basically working for a major corporation or under anyone your in the grind, its chewing you up and eating you and draining every life. this song means the only way your gonna get ahead of them is blow em or show em up.
Without going into great detail, Skid Row 's aural montage still portrays a stark, bleak world where no one merits trust, one's "friends" plot rapaciously against the others, and the economics of it all ( the rat race-ial slime ) will finally allow you to have your debt ( $28,000) paid off in 42 years paying the minimum cause it's all that's left after rent and utilities. That's the rat race, and if you depend on it for your survival, you'll never break free; you've become a slave to the grind of minimum wage and working for some real stinkers. If you aspire to prosperity, you need skills ( or marriage into that stratum) and a plan that can be a bit illegal during part of its execution ( just a very very little bit) and good timing. Good planning will take you farther in the long run of your ascencion ,and making good plans may require you to think and look at things differently, outside the box. Take that road that changes your life, and you are king of the world cause you refuse to be held down as a slave ,making other people rich at the cost of the years of your life you work for them instead of working those years for your profit.