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"
Lying naked
-- Alone
On the bathroom floor
Evacuating pain
Fear ... no MORE!
-- And I can't get his scent off of me
I.
She wants to be messiah
Without the crucifixion
She wants to fuck Delilah
Without Samsons intervention
She wants to be a deity
And rule us everyday
And punish the whores of your wish gods
And the martyrs that they slay
She wants to see galaxies,
All the planets and the stars
She wants to be a fallen angel
Without their swollen scars
[chorus]
And unclean
Unclean
Fillthee
And I can't get his scent off of me
II.
She wants to free the kingdom
And be worshipped by the earth,
She wants to be the prophet
For 10 times whut she's worth,
She wants to break free from eve
And leave them all behind,
To be born again in the thrill of sin
& revive her dying mind,
She wants to stand
& rape the king,
Slaughter the daughter
Kill everything,
Burn the world
Let her soul be free,
Ignite the nebulas
Of eternity.
[chorus]
[bridge]
- don't touch me there
- oooh I'm really SCARED
- kill the need in me
- And I'll remain.... UNCLEAN!!!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
NO!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
WHY SHOULD I BE AFRAID?
IT'S NOT THE 1ST TIME I'VE TASTED PAIN!!
RUN! RUN!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
-- Alone
On the bathroom floor
Evacuating pain
Fear ... no MORE!
-- And I can't get his scent off of me
I.
She wants to be messiah
Without the crucifixion
She wants to fuck Delilah
Without Samsons intervention
She wants to be a deity
And rule us everyday
And punish the whores of your wish gods
And the martyrs that they slay
She wants to see galaxies,
All the planets and the stars
She wants to be a fallen angel
Without their swollen scars
[chorus]
And unclean
Unclean
Fillthee
And I can't get his scent off of me
II.
She wants to free the kingdom
And be worshipped by the earth,
She wants to be the prophet
For 10 times whut she's worth,
She wants to break free from eve
And leave them all behind,
To be born again in the thrill of sin
& revive her dying mind,
She wants to stand
& rape the king,
Slaughter the daughter
Kill everything,
Burn the world
Let her soul be free,
Ignite the nebulas
Of eternity.
[chorus]
[bridge]
- don't touch me there
- oooh I'm really SCARED
- kill the need in me
- And I'll remain.... UNCLEAN!!!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
NO!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
WHY SHOULD I BE AFRAID?
IT'S NOT THE 1ST TIME I'VE TASTED PAIN!!
RUN! RUN!
AND I CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME!
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Great version of a great song,
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and she is NOT the antichrist. or anti-mary. she has her own beliefs separate from christianity. if you dont believe in god, you dont believe in jesus, and if something doesnt exist to you, how can you be the exact opposite of that? explain.
no fear of god=no fear of satan
Oteps father raped her I think he mighta been a religious fanatic or something... anywayz, i guess that wat am tryin 2 say in the verses iz about wat she WANTED wen she was a kid and still innocent be4 her father violated her a basicly made her feel like she was nothing, just dirt and he polluted her in a way that she can never get rid of... or am I talkin a load of S*#t???
by screamindeamons on 03-11-2003 @ 08:54:06 PM "and she is NOT the antichrist. or anti-mary. she has her own beliefs separate from christianity. if you dont believe in god, you dont believe in jesus, and if something doesnt exist to you, how can you be the exact opposite of that? explain.
no fear of god=no fear of satan"
I just want to add, that in history, not to be confused with withcraft, that satanists were formed as an anti-Christian movement. It is there that Christians developed the idea of the devil worshippers and lumped them in with Wicca (or witchcraft), taking in the Wiccan God of the Hunt (who had horns) as the Christian devil.
Wouldn't it be just crazy to someday find out that the devil was merely conceived from the imagination of men?
Otep definately saves. What is wrong with you people, you always need a crucifixtion or a case history. Get saved Get Otep!
SPREAD OTEP! TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THEM!
emptyness...can not fill the void...feel so dirty from evilness of the world......so filthy...fill thee.
this is a nice song from otep! but i was disgusted when i bought their CD, only 5 songs?! whut?!
THIS song shows their anti-mary ideas the "she" is mary
i think OTEP SHAMAYA is a muslim
wow.....brilliant :|
I love this song and Otep is FIT
is otep blonde? don't see too many blond muslims these days....anyway, i love this song.
Otep isn't muslim.<br /> She only studies ancient egypt.<br /> She is either taoist or wiccan.<br /> I can't remember which.