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"
Oftimes you'll find me raving, sometimes you'll find me sick
To wake me up this morning you hit me with a brick
Can I help it if I am rather thick?
Maybe we can chill you out by chopping off your dick!
Sister and brother, hate one another
You really are pathetic, and you call me a slut
Then you walk around all day with midgets up your butt!
At least the midgets like me, they like my disease
Well, maybe there's hope for you, but first get on your knees
Hey, wait a minute!
I don't want it to hurt
Then you will learn nothing man, so grovel in the dirt
Sister and brother, kill one another
Brother and sister, back off mister
I don't know where to begin,
but I'll try not to lie because lying is a sin
What do you know of sin?
I taught you about sin when the sun was dim
But what of my power?
What about it?
There's no pussy in your tower
I could have any women that I want!
The fact that you rape them is nothing to flaunt
Oh... well uh you got me there,
But wait a minute
But what of my sword?
What of the comet?
And the roaring horde?
I'm getting bored
Maybe if you got off drugs,
you wouldn't get ignored
Then you could achieve erection
You might even find that it helps with your inflection
Now I'm getting mad!
So what? I can still kick your ass!
All of you men, you talk a good game
You must plan it out cause you all sound the same
You huff and you puff, you "act" out so mean
You serve better purpose as seeding machines
But something it stops you from finding the door
I have to admit it, girls frustrate me more!
Well, hey there Slimey,
I think I got your point
Now will you please untie me?
Well that can be arranged, you pay for the pain
Now find something to buy me!!!
Sister and brother, stuck with each other
Brother and sister, back off mister!
To wake me up this morning you hit me with a brick
Can I help it if I am rather thick?
Maybe we can chill you out by chopping off your dick!
Sister and brother, hate one another
You really are pathetic, and you call me a slut
Then you walk around all day with midgets up your butt!
At least the midgets like me, they like my disease
Well, maybe there's hope for you, but first get on your knees
Hey, wait a minute!
I don't want it to hurt
Then you will learn nothing man, so grovel in the dirt
Sister and brother, kill one another
Brother and sister, back off mister
I don't know where to begin,
but I'll try not to lie because lying is a sin
What do you know of sin?
I taught you about sin when the sun was dim
But what of my power?
What about it?
There's no pussy in your tower
I could have any women that I want!
The fact that you rape them is nothing to flaunt
Oh... well uh you got me there,
But wait a minute
But what of my sword?
What of the comet?
And the roaring horde?
I'm getting bored
Maybe if you got off drugs,
you wouldn't get ignored
Then you could achieve erection
You might even find that it helps with your inflection
Now I'm getting mad!
So what? I can still kick your ass!
All of you men, you talk a good game
You must plan it out cause you all sound the same
You huff and you puff, you "act" out so mean
You serve better purpose as seeding machines
But something it stops you from finding the door
I have to admit it, girls frustrate me more!
Well, hey there Slimey,
I think I got your point
Now will you please untie me?
Well that can be arranged, you pay for the pain
Now find something to buy me!!!
Sister and brother, stuck with each other
Brother and sister, back off mister!
Lyrics submitted by iampunk
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