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"
confess, tied to a stretcher
no longer animal
red white and blue, choking on peace
your suicide, his politics
nay misery
my country needs this freedom
to contradict your humanness
meow meow meow meow
la la
now we are safe
now we are safe
you'll never know how you've made us safe
and your son grows to kill us all
we say thank you complicity
your daughter grows to kill us all
and we say thanks to ease our shame
no longer animal
red white and blue, choking on peace
your suicide, his politics
nay misery
my country needs this freedom
to contradict your humanness
meow meow meow meow
la la
now we are safe
now we are safe
you'll never know how you've made us safe
and your son grows to kill us all
we say thank you complicity
your daughter grows to kill us all
and we say thanks to ease our shame
Lyrics submitted by monogon
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hmm... too bad Jamie Stewart wasn't in or a part of cLOUDDEAD.
yeah, i just read that whole explanation by Benladen there... and, i imagine, the experience was pretty much equivalent to interpreting hieroglyphics...
in other words, it was a big ol' mind f*ck.