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"
Dear God, do you want to tear your knuckles down
And hold yourself?
Dear God, can you climb off that tree
Meat in the shape of a 'T'?
Dear God, the paper says
You were the King in the black limousine
Dear John and all the King's men
Can't put your head together again
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities
Take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic
So are your brains
Dear God, the sky is as blue
As a gunshot wound
Dear God, if you were alive
You know we'd kill you
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities
Take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic
So are your brains
And hold yourself?
Dear God, can you climb off that tree
Meat in the shape of a 'T'?
Dear God, the paper says
You were the King in the black limousine
Dear John and all the King's men
Can't put your head together again
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities
Take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic
So are your brains
Dear God, the sky is as blue
As a gunshot wound
Dear God, if you were alive
You know we'd kill you
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities
Take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic
So are your brains
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