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"
We're busy touching till we're dizzy stupid. I am a puppy. A balloon and a happy accident. Missed she teaching me myths mistold. Hold me here dearest and turn me golden. And I watched you holding up the sun. I remember her saying, "this whole world is a waste of my time." And all I could say is, "I wish I had something to say." But we'll stand still long enough the sun will move around us. You can't look at the sky without looking right through it.
Lyrics submitted by PLANES, edited by Aragorn224
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this is the coolest song i've heard. "i remember her saying, "this whole world is a waste of my time." and all i could say is, "i wish i had something to say." i..... i don't know what to say.
just listening to cap'n jazz makes you cooler!
this song is so amazing. i will willingly admit to the fact that the emotion in it is so powerful it can make me cry sometimes. it's beautiful, and the words captivate me. everything about it screams me; sometimes i swear he wrote it for me.
Oh, awkwardness of young love and how unsure the whole world is when you're with someone you want.
busy touching til dizzy stupid? huh?
I've always though the whole segment ending with "I wish I had something to say" would be a great closing line for a movie or a novel. Most likely a movie. I wish someone had this idea too.
++|[ dear sweet cap'n jazz. ]|-- anytime you're with anyone looking at the sky, it's necessary to quote this. because I said so, and it'll make you a cool kid.
Cap'n jazz would have to be my favorite band. Tsucol said it best, that one line gets to me every time.
easily my favourite cap'n jazz song.
these lyrics kick awesome, the only thing i want to add is there is a Braid song called Capricorn that ends the same way, with "can't look at the sky, with out looking right through it." i know braid and cap'n jazz were somehow "connected" to eachother, but I think Bob Nanna of Braid took that line and even how its sung and put it in it Capricorn. Am i right?