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"
A taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine
I dream of your first kiss, and then
I feel upon my lips again
A taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine
I will return, yes I will return
I'll come back for the honey and you
Yours was the kiss that awoke my heart
There lingers still, though we're far apart
That taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine
I will return, yes I will return
I'll come back (he'll come back)
For the honey (for the honey)
And you
I dream of your first kiss, and then
I feel upon my lips again
A taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine
I will return, yes I will return
I'll come back for the honey and you
Yours was the kiss that awoke my heart
There lingers still, though we're far apart
That taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine
I will return, yes I will return
I'll come back (he'll come back)
For the honey (for the honey)
And you
Lyrics submitted by Ice
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I don't really like this version. I like the tijuana sound of Brass version, which was later propelled to fame as the "4DJ" song on Chris Evans' breakfast show on Radio 1.
A cover, and a great one too. The vocal is so dramatic, it's really awesome.
Backround singing makes this song great, a good little sond after powerful do You Wanna Know a Secret.
If I'm not mistaken, this song has Paul singing both parts, am I not wrong? Someone let me know!
i read once that they didnt like having to record this song, so they would sing "a waste of money" instead of "taste of honey" when they were goofing around. any truth behind that?
I wonder if this song is about Mead. (Honey wine)
what albm is this from or is it a single?
Could be about a girl havin her monthlies... some pirates put out to the red sea and some people prefer just to return for the honey later.
Don't nail me down on this
Could be about a girl havin her monthlies... some pirates put out to the red sea and some people prefer just to return for the honey later.
Don't nail me down on this