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"
It's down to this
I've got to make this life make sense
Can anyone tell what I've done?
I miss the life
I miss the colors of the world
Can anyone tell where I am?
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Away from the sun again
Well, I'm over this
I'm tired of living and I'm dark
Can anyone see me down here?
The feeling's gone
There's nothing left to lift me up
Back into the world I know
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
To find my way back into the arms
That care about the ones like me
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Oh no, yeah, oh no
It's down to this
I've got to make this life make sense
And now I can't tell what I've done
Now again I found myself so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
To find my way back into the arms
That care about the ones like me
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Oh no, yeah
I'm gone
I've got to make this life make sense
Can anyone tell what I've done?
I miss the life
I miss the colors of the world
Can anyone tell where I am?
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Away from the sun again
Well, I'm over this
I'm tired of living and I'm dark
Can anyone see me down here?
The feeling's gone
There's nothing left to lift me up
Back into the world I know
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
To find my way back into the arms
That care about the ones like me
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Oh no, yeah, oh no
It's down to this
I've got to make this life make sense
And now I can't tell what I've done
Now again I found myself so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
'Cause now again I found myself so far down
Away from the sun that shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun
That shines to light the way for me
To find my way back into the arms
That care about the ones like me
I'm so far down
Away from the sun again
Oh no, yeah
I'm gone
Lyrics submitted by Desaparecida
Away from the Sun Lyrics as written by Matt Roberts Bradley Kirk Arnold
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i don't realy think he's "suicidal or some shit", at least he sees the problem! but i do agree, the song's good, the lyrics are good, the melody's good = fucking amazing song!