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"
Chorus:
Mother Mary, Mother Mary.
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power.
Mother Mary,
Please answer my prayers,
I want to run free,
And I need you to be there.
I'm going to take some chances
I never took before,
I've got to live my life,
And I'm gonna risk it all.
I look to the sky,
And suddenly I know,
I've made up my mind,
I'm never letting go.
It's the power I want,
It's the power I need,
To make me run,
To make me see for real.
It's the power I want,
To let me do what I feel,
To make me run,
To make me be for real.
Unlike a miracle,
Or a wish upon a star,
The power to be me,
Is all I need to start,
To do things I'll never regret,
And to leave the rest behind.
Chorus x 2
You're the one to only help me,
The only one, so help me, help me,
Give it to me, to me, to me,
Oh Mother Mary,
Please, please, please, please,
Please just help and watch me shine,
Then watch the power, make me fly away.
Mother Mary, Mother Mary.
Chorus x 3
Mother Mary, Mother Mary.
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power,
I want the power.
Mother Mary,
Please answer my prayers,
I want to run free,
And I need you to be there.
I'm going to take some chances
I never took before,
I've got to live my life,
And I'm gonna risk it all.
I look to the sky,
And suddenly I know,
I've made up my mind,
I'm never letting go.
It's the power I want,
It's the power I need,
To make me run,
To make me see for real.
It's the power I want,
To let me do what I feel,
To make me run,
To make me be for real.
Unlike a miracle,
Or a wish upon a star,
The power to be me,
Is all I need to start,
To do things I'll never regret,
And to leave the rest behind.
Chorus x 2
You're the one to only help me,
The only one, so help me, help me,
Give it to me, to me, to me,
Oh Mother Mary,
Please, please, please, please,
Please just help and watch me shine,
Then watch the power, make me fly away.
Mother Mary, Mother Mary.
Chorus x 3
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