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"
Now we're Anthrax and we take no shit
And we don't care for writing hits
The sound you hear is what we like
I'll steal your pop-tarts like I stole your
Socks!
No man, what's the matter with you?
I'll get it the next time, I mean it
Charlie, beat the beats, the beats you beat
The only thing harder's the smell of my feet
So listen up 'cause you might get dissed
Go drain the lizard or take a
Chair!
Damn, watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
We've got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
And ya think we got egos but we're just hams
Scott plays stick ball and likes to skate
Frank is never on time he's always
Sleeping!
"Late!"
Drink the drinks, the drinks they drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack, they offer joints
We don't do drugs, do you get our
Meaning!
"Point!" "Point!" Watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
For a heavy metal band raps a different way
We like to different and not cliche
They say rap and metal can never mix
Well all of them can suck our
Sexual organ in the lower abdominal area!
No man, it's "dicks!"
Master!
Fart the farts, the farts he farted
I pick my nose 'cause I'm retarded
Like El Duce says "smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt with your
Face!
"Toilet paper!" Yo, watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
So, as this rap is winding down
It's plain to see we wear the crown
You know Anthrax is number one
But we don't care, we just want to have
A festival!
"Fun" you stupid idiot!
We are the kings that all shout hell
We're like a diamond that is forever
And will remain the hardest ever
I'm so bad, it's a crime
And we don't care for writing hits
The sound you hear is what we like
I'll steal your pop-tarts like I stole your
Socks!
No man, what's the matter with you?
I'll get it the next time, I mean it
Charlie, beat the beats, the beats you beat
The only thing harder's the smell of my feet
So listen up 'cause you might get dissed
Go drain the lizard or take a
Chair!
Damn, watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
We've got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
And ya think we got egos but we're just hams
Scott plays stick ball and likes to skate
Frank is never on time he's always
Sleeping!
"Late!"
Drink the drinks, the drinks they drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack, they offer joints
We don't do drugs, do you get our
Meaning!
"Point!" "Point!" Watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
For a heavy metal band raps a different way
We like to different and not cliche
They say rap and metal can never mix
Well all of them can suck our
Sexual organ in the lower abdominal area!
No man, it's "dicks!"
Master!
Fart the farts, the farts he farted
I pick my nose 'cause I'm retarded
Like El Duce says "smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt with your
Face!
"Toilet paper!" Yo, watch the beat!
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step up sucker, understand
Don't you know,
I'm the man! I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
So, as this rap is winding down
It's plain to see we wear the crown
You know Anthrax is number one
But we don't care, we just want to have
A festival!
"Fun" you stupid idiot!
We are the kings that all shout hell
We're like a diamond that is forever
And will remain the hardest ever
I'm so bad, it's a crime
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
I'm the Man Lyrics as written by Daniel Alan Spitz Charlie L. Benante
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"??? We are the kings that all shout hell We're like a diamond that is forever And will remain the hardest ever"
is
"Mail the mail, the mail he mailed We are the kings that all shall hail We're like a diamond that is forever And will remain the hardest ever"
LMAO!!! This popped up on random lyric and I HAVE to download it!!!! It's HILARIOUS!
I heard this one on the radio and I love it, it's so funny and I think I love the retarded guy
It's great but that guy did the wrong lyrics
Well all of them can suck our..." "DICKS!" "Suck my motherfucking dick!"
Is wrong, its
Well all of them can suck our..." "Sexual organ located in the lower abdominal area" "No man, its dick!"
its as if the uncensored version from the I'm the man single and the extremely explicit version (live in otherwords) have been mixed in together
Great song tho :D
This is a great song,but its so different from what they usually do,i couldnt even guess that it was them except for the anthrax.Theyre great live if you get the chance to see them you should go.They can comand a crowd so fucking good.
How has no one commented on this yet?? The funniest song I have ever heard by FAR.
How has no one commented on this yet?? The funniest song I have ever heard by FAR.
This song is hilarious, "I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!" xD
1st Rap-Metal song I heard (well, after "walk this way"), but this one is all one band - Anthrax. Could be very interesting if they pursued this line. This song is about how proud they are, but they don't take them selves to seriously.