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're carving a statue of snow and you're the only one who knows how
You've got your own indecipherable language to use now
You're bending the laws of science like bending bars of steel
But your arrogance lacks confidence and betrays the way you feel
The way you feel
Running through your hands
You've built a brand new wall, recycled from before you were born
You're a noble, first-time trailblazer one path that's been well worn
So, what new ways to pout did you devise while skipping class? In the end, your actions are erased by the sands of the hourglass
The hourglass
Running through your hands
So hold on tight to what is sacred
And don't let go
Cherish everything that's precious
And don't let go
Running through your hands
Times are hard, but you're the one you must define
Self-destruct or "let it shine"
Times are hard, but you're the one who's got to know, you're carving statues out of snow
You're not different, you're just like me
We're the same
You're not different, you're just like me
We're the same
And you're ok
You've got your own indecipherable language to use now
You're bending the laws of science like bending bars of steel
But your arrogance lacks confidence and betrays the way you feel
The way you feel
Running through your hands
You've built a brand new wall, recycled from before you were born
You're a noble, first-time trailblazer one path that's been well worn
So, what new ways to pout did you devise while skipping class? In the end, your actions are erased by the sands of the hourglass
The hourglass
Running through your hands
So hold on tight to what is sacred
And don't let go
Cherish everything that's precious
And don't let go
Running through your hands
Times are hard, but you're the one you must define
Self-destruct or "let it shine"
Times are hard, but you're the one who's got to know, you're carving statues out of snow
You're not different, you're just like me
We're the same
You're not different, you're just like me
We're the same
And you're ok
Lyrics submitted by SantanicoPandemonium
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