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"
Light a candle for the sinners
Set the world on fire
Anti choice and anti girl
I am the anti-flag unfurled
Anti white and anti man
I got the anti-future plan
Anti fascist, anti mod
I am the anti-music god
Anti sober, anti whore
never be enough of anti more
I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me
Now, it's your turn to see what I hate about me
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
Anti money, anti hate
Anti things I fucked and ate
Anti cop and anti fun
Here is my anti-President gun
Anti Satan, anti black
The anti world is on my back
Anti gay and anti dope
I am the faggot anti-Pope
I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me
Now, it's your turn to see what I hate about me
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Antichrist Superstar
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
This is where your faith ends
1996, 1996, 1996, 1996
Anti peace and anti life
Anti husband, anti wife
Anti song and anti me
I don't deserve a chance to be
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Antichrist Superstar
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
Set the world on fire
Anti choice and anti girl
I am the anti-flag unfurled
Anti white and anti man
I got the anti-future plan
Anti fascist, anti mod
I am the anti-music god
Anti sober, anti whore
never be enough of anti more
I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me
Now, it's your turn to see what I hate about me
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
Anti money, anti hate
Anti things I fucked and ate
Anti cop and anti fun
Here is my anti-President gun
Anti Satan, anti black
The anti world is on my back
Anti gay and anti dope
I am the faggot anti-Pope
I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me
Now, it's your turn to see what I hate about me
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Antichrist Superstar
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
This is where your faith ends
1996, 1996, 1996, 1996
Anti peace and anti life
Anti husband, anti wife
Anti song and anti me
I don't deserve a chance to be
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Antichrist Superstar
Anti people, now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
1996 Lyrics as written by Jeordie White Brian Hugh Warner
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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This was written much prior to 1996's election campaign. I always thought it was a reference to the year 1969, the year of Manson's birth and also the year the Charles Manson murders occurred, who I think was a big inspiration for the dominant theme on this album (also, perhaps coincidentally, Manson I believe once covered the song "If 6 was 9," which sort of goes with this "1996" becoming "1969"). Also, I believe the correct lyrics are "The Anti-World is at my back." I think this meaning is different from the other incorrect lyric. Here, the "Anti-World" means the "world" that is full of "anti-people," people who are against everything. "Anti-World" having the same meaning as the "sportsworld" or "newsworld." I think this is speaking particularly to Christianity though. Christianity is full of "Thou shalt not's" and Christians are typically "anti-life" in that they deny life in a very Nietzschean sense. They also deny the world, or the worldly. Manson is saying, just like Nietzsche said, that Christianity is really basically against everything that is actually "good," even life itself. They are supreme Nihilists. The "anti-world" be at his back means that he has put all that behind him, he has moved past it.