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"
Sex, death sex death sex death
When I go to the show all I see on the screen is a stream of pure vulgarity
I wrote down a note, I complained for a day to the House of Representatives
They laughed in my face, they said "Son, you're a one-in-a-million minority"
The name of the game is to titillate the brain, stimulate the immorality
I was so offended as I sat for three hours
It was mental cruelty, I was so shocked
Just a little more flesh
Just a little more blood
Little closer to the edge
A little deeper in the mud
I'll never be the same
Sex, death and money, sonny, makes this wicked world go round
Sex, death and money, it's the Gospel here in Dragontown
Sex, death and money, honey, grease the wheels and make them fly
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna fry
Stuck my nose in the door, ended up on the floor in the middle of an nudie show
She danced on my lap, acoupla hundred dollars later I was up on a morals rap
I was so offended as I sat for three hours
It was mental cruelty, I was so shocked
Just a little more flesh
Just a little more blood
Little closer to the edge
A little deeper in the mud
I'll never be the same
Sex, death and money, sonny, grease the wheels and make them fly
Sex, death and money, that is why we all are gonna..
That is why we all are gonna fry
That is why we all are gonna fry
(Sex, death, sex, death,seax, death)
Sex, death and money, it's the Gospel here in Dragontown
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna fry
(Sex, death, sex, death, sex, death, sex..)
When I go to the show all I see on the screen is a stream of pure vulgarity
I wrote down a note, I complained for a day to the House of Representatives
They laughed in my face, they said "Son, you're a one-in-a-million minority"
The name of the game is to titillate the brain, stimulate the immorality
I was so offended as I sat for three hours
It was mental cruelty, I was so shocked
Just a little more flesh
Just a little more blood
Little closer to the edge
A little deeper in the mud
I'll never be the same
Sex, death and money, sonny, makes this wicked world go round
Sex, death and money, it's the Gospel here in Dragontown
Sex, death and money, honey, grease the wheels and make them fly
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna fry
Stuck my nose in the door, ended up on the floor in the middle of an nudie show
She danced on my lap, acoupla hundred dollars later I was up on a morals rap
I was so offended as I sat for three hours
It was mental cruelty, I was so shocked
Just a little more flesh
Just a little more blood
Little closer to the edge
A little deeper in the mud
I'll never be the same
Sex, death and money, sonny, grease the wheels and make them fly
Sex, death and money, that is why we all are gonna..
That is why we all are gonna fry
That is why we all are gonna fry
(Sex, death, sex, death,seax, death)
Sex, death and money, it's the Gospel here in Dragontown
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna
Sex, death and money, sonny, that is why we all are gonna fry
(Sex, death, sex, death, sex, death, sex..)
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