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"
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up
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Smack my bitch up
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Smack My Bitch Up Lyrics as written by Cedric Ulmont Miller Liam Howlett
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What the lyrics mean: Smack my bitch up (in slang – contrary to the explanation by many people) means to do something intensely, like being on stage (other possible explanations are reference to heroin use, attempts to generate shock value or just what it sounds like). As for what change my pitch up may mean, I have a few guesses, but am not sure at all – probably there’s no point at all in explaining lyrics like these.
I agree with trphg, the meaning of the song can vary, but this is a great party song as well. Also, the video rocks! Very creative.
"It sure as hell ain't sampled from 'an old Ultramagnetic MCs song' though " Err yes it is. Ultramagnetic MCs' Give the drummer Some - "Switch up, change my pitch up, smack my bitch up, like a pimp."
@Freddy Groover thanks for that Freddy. Listening to The Prodigy has kept me going through grim U.K. Lockdown in January 2021. Lots of the vocals in Prodigy records are Samples from hip hop tracks and old movies. I've got most into their early more Hardcore period tracks like Outa Space, Jericho, Charly. If you are American Freddy, you won't know that the sample in Charly is a old U.K. Child safety film which U.K. folks of a generation remember well. Charly has got a really heavy rhythm in The Alley Cat mix, general release single. Videos are on YouTube. I figured Smack may have been sampled off an old 'Blaxploitation' genre movie. Again what a rhythm going there? A friend who knows his rave/house music said The Prodigy were Hardcore before the music split into countless genres. Then they made Poison and pretty much made their very own path. Liam Howlett definitely a Prodigy as they were really young when putting out their early tracks. Lost their way until Invaders Must Die album.
@Freddy Groover hi Freddy, it is credited to UltraMagnetic MCs on the album sleeve notes.
yeah great video, one of their best songs live too
Ever since the first time I heard this song it always made me think of a girl and a guy who are together, and the guy is rather abusive and doesn't realize what he's got, and what a beautiful girl he's with. During the mideastern chanting type part in the song, I've always seen that as representation of the girl's beauty, and then once again there's "smack my bitch up", reaffirming that he doesn't even see it. Or doesn't care. Either way.. I'm strange.
Music videos are a visual representation of the audio of the song. The uncensored video is straight-up soft porn. Sex, drugs, girl-on-girl, Alchoholism, puking, and violence. My kind of video.
i saw the prodigy live in concery in sydney a few days ago, and during smack my bitch up Maxim at one point was humping the air and swinging his hand accros the front of his groin... this ahs lead me to believe that 'smack my bitch up' may mean to ahve like rough sex with your 'bitch' like do you get me haha... i dunno... sick song but i wonder what that air huimping was?
I'm amused by the fact that this song with 2 lines of lyrics that really don't mean much can generate this much discussion. It's kind of cool actually. I love you guys.
Anyway, last guy i asked said they were talking about their speakers, which seems to make sense, although he's hardly a reputable source.
I doubt this is the case but I always kinda thought of it being a reference to changing the pitch of a sample (Change my pitch up) and then having it sound more female, therfore (Smack my bitch up).
Personally, I find the juxtaposition of the lines interesting. "Change my pitch up" seems to be a term similar to a "Change of pace", but "Smack my bitch up" seems to be...falling back into the same old groove. So really the whole song is a contradiction in itself.
Or maybe it's just a really ravin' good dance song. (: