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"
I was hanging on by a little thread.
Just minutes before I was on a mountain.
I screamed "I can see all."
The ground broke from the sound.
It was all built on nothing.
And the pretty lights down below
Begged me to just let go;
To let myself be condemned;
To start again
I opened up my aching hands.
I went down like an avalanche.
I took with me the things I found.
I used them to help slow me down,
And start again.
Chorus:
Caution: The solid ground that you
Are on will slide from under you.
Just minutes before I was on a mountain.
I screamed "I can see all."
The ground broke from the sound.
It was all built on nothing.
And the pretty lights down below
Begged me to just let go;
To let myself be condemned;
To start again
I opened up my aching hands.
I went down like an avalanche.
I took with me the things I found.
I used them to help slow me down,
And start again.
Chorus:
Caution: The solid ground that you
Are on will slide from under you.
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I think this song pretty obviously describes how quickly one can go from being "on top of the world" to "rock bottom". The chorus explains it perfectly. They're saying "Be careful, one twist of fate could destroy your comfortable stability". Definitely a warning to be heeded.
the way teh guitars are played, swirling and whining, really gives u the impression (if u close ure eyes) that u r indeed on a mountain, so high, so cold, so alone...the wind whistling round your head. amazing
Not everything is what it seems. If you depend too much on something, the next thing you know it slips from underneath your feet and leaves you with nothing. I would love to know what it was that influenced them to write this song.
rieve makes an excellant point. This song does an excellant job putting you right on the mountain. very good song
I was sure i heard this on an all covers punk radio show, but i cant seem to find any original version. hmm.
Just when you think everything is fine, something gets fucked up and you're back to sqaure one again.
I feel stupid for saying that before. XD
I think its about a person who thought they knew everything (I can see all), only to find out that they were all lies (It was all built on nothing). I dont know what it is that was all a lie that the band is singing of, perhaps a person or Girlfriend that betrayed them, or maybe a deeper connotation like theyre meaning of life.
oh yeah, kudos chuckhoge ,think u got the main interpretation down