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"
We're globetrotters only smoking guns are hotter
Stick in the Mojo you scream and holler
Better tap out before we break that collar
Rules out the window like N.W.O.
Imagine this Indian reservation
You trust total annihilation
Scalping that ass from head to toe
Hanging the carcass up after every show
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
You're my best friend before we enter the stage
Hear the first note note bust like a 12-gauge.
Yo listen we are on a different mission you think we're in.
You think we're a standing competition
Mr. Estate is down with first circle
Break full time and ????????
Step on the ??? for the ???????
Break ya off somethin' like Evander Holyfield!
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
When I enter the stage we enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
All I see is red
When I enter the stage a 30-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
When I enter the stage we enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
All I see is read
30-minute homicidal rage
We enage in acts of rampage.
Stick in the Mojo you scream and holler
Better tap out before we break that collar
Rules out the window like N.W.O.
Imagine this Indian reservation
You trust total annihilation
Scalping that ass from head to toe
Hanging the carcass up after every show
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
You're my best friend before we enter the stage
Hear the first note note bust like a 12-gauge.
Yo listen we are on a different mission you think we're in.
You think we're a standing competition
Mr. Estate is down with first circle
Break full time and ????????
Step on the ??? for the ???????
Break ya off somethin' like Evander Holyfield!
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
When I enter the stage we enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
A 90-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
We enage in acts of rampage.
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
Take my rage
Go and setup your head (?)
All I see is red
When I enter the stage a 30-minute homicidal rage
All I see is read
When I enter the stage we enage in acts of rampage.
All I see is red
All I see is read
30-minute homicidal rage
We enage in acts of rampage.
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