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"
You say that you're leaving
Well that comes as no surprise
Still I kinda like this feeling
Of being left behind
This ain't nothing new to me
Well it's just like going home
It's kind of like those sunsets
That leave you feeling so stoned
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
Never thought this could happen
But somehow, the feeling's gone
You got sick of the pattern
And I got lost in this song
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
And out in the middle of Lake Ontario
The same snow is falling
On the deep silent water
The great dark wonder
Into the waves of my heart
Into the waves of my heart
Well that comes as no surprise
Still I kinda like this feeling
Of being left behind
This ain't nothing new to me
Well it's just like going home
It's kind of like those sunsets
That leave you feeling so stoned
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
Never thought this could happen
But somehow, the feeling's gone
You got sick of the pattern
And I got lost in this song
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
Hey hey I guess it hasn't hit me yet
I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head
I stand transfixed before this streetlight
Watching the snow fall on this cold December night
And out in the middle of Lake Ontario
The same snow is falling
On the deep silent water
The great dark wonder
Into the waves of my heart
Into the waves of my heart
Lyrics submitted by DHMachine31
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Lake Superior, actually.
Awesome song about dealing with the end of a relationship and the sort of delayed reaction, or disbelief that often accompanies it, or just simply not wanting to believe that the love is over.
oohh yes...definitly a song written from experience... one of my top 5 BR songs....
How many other songs have Lake Ontario in it?
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This song makes me happy, it always picks me up when I'm feeling sad.
Wonderful song, very uplifting I love it!
One more song by Greg Keelor involving his love of disillusionment. He'd almost prefer to be disillusioned that be happily in love, then again that's Blue Rodeo! Great song.
perfect song to the last ten months of my life.I guess it hasn't hit me yet.and to hellfirecan another song with lake ontario named in it is "the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald".it went down the same year you were born.my dad was on that ship.
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Oops at double posting. Yes, I do know it mentions essentially every lake. This one just has more of a purpose. ;)