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"
So you've seen I've gotten this far.
Please give me some place to hide.
I'm not trying to go there, so take me away.
Life sometimes pisses me off.
It's never a good trip for me
Every time I reach for love, it's taken away.
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is gay.
Give me some patience, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
There's nothing wrong wanting to be loved.
Is there something wrong with me?
For once in my life I'd like to be really set free.
Let me be me.
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is gay.
Give me some guidance, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Take me away.
Taken away.
Take me away.
Taken... away.
Something I get, I got to get home
Run, run, run, run, run, run running home
Where is my home...
...suck my dick...
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is day.
Give me some patience, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is day.
Give me some guidance, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Please give me some place to hide.
I'm not trying to go there, so take me away.
Life sometimes pisses me off.
It's never a good trip for me
Every time I reach for love, it's taken away.
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is gay.
Give me some patience, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
There's nothing wrong wanting to be loved.
Is there something wrong with me?
For once in my life I'd like to be really set free.
Let me be me.
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is gay.
Give me some guidance, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Take me away.
Taken away.
Take me away.
Taken... away.
Something I get, I got to get home
Run, run, run, run, run, run running home
Where is my home...
...suck my dick...
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is day.
Give me some patience, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Night! So I play.
Give me a sign this is day.
Give me some guidance, so I pray.
It's time to die. Is that what I want?
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky
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its a strange song....difficult or very abstract meaning...
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"Big black cock! That's what I call a jack and coke. Those little glasses they serve in Europe and everything. That's what I named it, big black cock. And that's another song about me dealing with the pressures of this album and how I, you know, I'm trying to kill myself, but you know? Do I really want to kill myself? Things I'm just questioning myself. Most of this is self-structured."
@mod7t9z730 nope hes got that all wrong fucking tweaker what does he know
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This is off Follow the Leader...not Life is Peachy...just saying
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Rad Song =]
this is only my opinion but i think it has to do with being jealous of sexual stamina. That is not the "official" meaning or anything just what it means to me.
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this is by far one of my favorite korn songs, or one of my favorite songs period. i love this song because it basically defines my life. whenever i find love it is somehow taken away, people wont let me be the way i want to be, and some times i just cant get a fucking break. its a song i listen to when i feel alone and depressed and i can just let it all out.
i know the true meaning, as the quote above states...but i see this song to be very wierd...its one of my favorites...it sounds good! but, it seems like he wants to kill himself but questions it, and wonders whether or not taking his life would be worth it. he says "Every time I reach for love, it's taken away." obviously this means that every time he tries to love someone (any kind of love, romance, family, friendship) soemhow they are taken from him. well, the band members still love him...his fans do...so i guess he knows this, but he is in so much pain that he feels this way even though its not true. oops...now im just rambling. hope it made some sense...