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"
I can see the chill in the air between us.
I can feel a winter coming we're frozen in our stares.
And we know there's a world outside
Of these insults and injuries
Maybe we're just too, afraid to be one.
The autumn sets a golden exit the winter is waxing
That cold sun will shed no more warmth into our living rooms.
Where we dream our dreams, where we wait for sleep.
Maybe we'll wake up with golden wings,
And fly over a city screaming, take me take me!
I woke up this morning to the silence of falling snow.
These graces of beauty have left me so cold.
I once had a heart, but hearts are like snowflakes
And snowflakes. one warm touch and they melt away
Maybe we'll get wings. maybe anything.
Just anything to set us free. maybe we'll wake up
A golden exit. must we always wait for sleep?
I can feel a winter coming we're frozen in our stares.
And we know there's a world outside
Of these insults and injuries
Maybe we're just too, afraid to be one.
The autumn sets a golden exit the winter is waxing
That cold sun will shed no more warmth into our living rooms.
Where we dream our dreams, where we wait for sleep.
Maybe we'll wake up with golden wings,
And fly over a city screaming, take me take me!
I woke up this morning to the silence of falling snow.
These graces of beauty have left me so cold.
I once had a heart, but hearts are like snowflakes
And snowflakes. one warm touch and they melt away
Maybe we'll get wings. maybe anything.
Just anything to set us free. maybe we'll wake up
A golden exit. must we always wait for sleep?
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