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"
How you wanna tag my style
I am so superior
How you wanna hate a thing
When you are so inferior
How you wanna mess
How you wanna mess my spotless interior?
Let's just say
You are not the destroyer
Let's just say
[Incomprehensible]
I got my bright girl near me
She's so much taller
With a crisp endorsement
From the C.C.A.A. Booty Patrol
She's so meta
Reference Stendhal
Shares my strange urge
To smash a window in every house on our block
Delinquent days are here again
How you wanna tag my style
I am so superior
How you wanna hate a thing
When you are so inferior
How you wanna mess
How you wanna mess my spotless interior?
Let's just say
You are not the destroyer
Let's just say
[Incomprehensible]
I got my Georgie Fruit on
He's a dark mutation
For my demented past time
Giving replicators somewhere to go
But we're authentic
You can test my talons
Against your cursive body
The controller's spheres have disappeared and it hurts
Delinquent days are here again
It's like to disappear forever
I'm not afraid
There's two Gods for everyone
One, two Gods for the beasts
An hour dead
Deflects our eggs on latitude
0, 1 degree, I trusted you
No, don't explain
Moving in clipped tempos making
Sad dreams of the flag appearing
Crazy how the symbolism works
Don't look at them
I am so superior
How you wanna hate a thing
When you are so inferior
How you wanna mess
How you wanna mess my spotless interior?
Let's just say
You are not the destroyer
Let's just say
[Incomprehensible]
I got my bright girl near me
She's so much taller
With a crisp endorsement
From the C.C.A.A. Booty Patrol
She's so meta
Reference Stendhal
Shares my strange urge
To smash a window in every house on our block
Delinquent days are here again
How you wanna tag my style
I am so superior
How you wanna hate a thing
When you are so inferior
How you wanna mess
How you wanna mess my spotless interior?
Let's just say
You are not the destroyer
Let's just say
[Incomprehensible]
I got my Georgie Fruit on
He's a dark mutation
For my demented past time
Giving replicators somewhere to go
But we're authentic
You can test my talons
Against your cursive body
The controller's spheres have disappeared and it hurts
Delinquent days are here again
It's like to disappear forever
I'm not afraid
There's two Gods for everyone
One, two Gods for the beasts
An hour dead
Deflects our eggs on latitude
0, 1 degree, I trusted you
No, don't explain
Moving in clipped tempos making
Sad dreams of the flag appearing
Crazy how the symbolism works
Don't look at them
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"Du er'kke den som ødelegger fitta" roughly translates to "You are not the cunt destroyer", which could be an answer to the album title "Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?", if we assume that Hissing Fauna could be an euphemism for a vagina.
catchy yeah! i can't believe someone leaked the album! :D. i like colquelicot the best though.
this song is so ridiculous! haha. i love it.
i always heard 'you can test my talons' instead of talents, but i dunno..and also i heard 'cursed body' instead of cursive
brilliant song!! i love georgie fruit
i've got some corrections
Of montreal is my favorite band, i saw them in concert and i absolutely love every song and this one is very funky it reminds me of Prince, its my second favorite song on HFAYTD, i love how it ends with "don't look at them" it leaves me wanting moooore
after the second verse and after "oh, oh let's just say you are not the destroyer"
a girl says something and i can't make it out. anybody know what she is saying?
correction - smash a window in every house on our block
The Destroyer theory is interesting.
Who is Georgie Fruit? I've read it's a friend of Kevin's but is it a he or a she or what?
It reminds me of Pink Floyd at the "de Gaulle..." part. I thought he was saying "soul superior" as opposed to "so" but I'm probably wrong. So as to the meaning? I was thinking of a pompous celebrity...
Theres something that is really wierd with this, the girl in the song says "du er ikke den som ödelägger fitta" in norweigan, iam from sweden but swedes understand norweigan.
but the thing is that, "du er ikke den som ödelägger" is a translation of "you are not the destroyer" but fitta is a very obscene word for a womans vagina.
hahaaha thats so fucked up.