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"
They turn the lights down low
In shadows hiding from the world
Only coming out when it gets cold
The seas part when they hit the floor
The voices carry on and out the door
And everything you touch turns into gold
Like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
A beating heart and a microphone
A ticking clock in an empty home
Still tells of these times so long ago
Even though I've come so far
I know I've got so far to go
And any day now I'll explode
Like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
And each and everyday, will lead into tomorrow
Tomorrow brings one less day without you
But don't wait up just leave the light on
'Cause all the roads that I might take
Will all one day lead back to you
And like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
In shadows hiding from the world
Only coming out when it gets cold
The seas part when they hit the floor
The voices carry on and out the door
And everything you touch turns into gold
Like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
A beating heart and a microphone
A ticking clock in an empty home
Still tells of these times so long ago
Even though I've come so far
I know I've got so far to go
And any day now I'll explode
Like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
And each and everyday, will lead into tomorrow
Tomorrow brings one less day without you
But don't wait up just leave the light on
'Cause all the roads that I might take
Will all one day lead back to you
And like the angel you are
You laugh creating a lightness in my chest
Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe)
That's when I got up and left
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28, edited by Belgarion262, HANREK, toonnytalhar, austinhenry
Like The Angel Lyrics as written by Joseph Principe Brandon Barnes
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rise Agaiant is my favorite band... why... cuz this singer as so much emotions in his voice... don't ya think??
I think its about the band being on tour and the singer being away from his girlfriend or wife.. Look at the whole second verse.. "A beating heart and a microphone" is probably how he feels while he's on stage.. "a ticking clock in an empty home" probably means that his house is empty why he's on tour. "and even though I've come so far, I know I've got so far to go and any day now I'll explode " After everything he's experienced with the band, the singer probably feels like he's still just beginning his journey and that he still has a long road ahead of him. "each and everyday it leads into tomorrow and tomorrow brings one less day without you but don't wait up just leave the light on cause all the roads that I might take will all one day lead back to you" This is about him telling his girlfriend or wife how much he misses her and that when their tour is over, he can come home to her..
That makes tons of sense only two lines bother me: your answers always maybe and that's when I got up and left). But other than those two lines it doesn't sound like he has any problem with her like everyone else is saying and this makes the most sense
At the end it's "your eyes they penetrate me (you never cease to amaze me) or at least thats what the CD booklet says.
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such a very very good song. i think its about an amazing woman in his life who he has been trying to get with for awhile and he knows shes into him but shes never sure. everyone around them is openly opposed to them being together so he eventually just gives up
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yea about a a guy who met a girl who seemed larger than life, but turned out she was only using him ...
I think this song is about a guy whose girlfriend is at a different time in her life and they no longer connect, but he knows that they are for each other so he hopes to get a second chance someday in the future. but he is also telling her not to wait for him. i love this song! but maybe I just see at as this cause my boyfriend just broke up with me...