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"
Life leaks from you fingertips
onto sparkling pavement
havent heard the news you stumble stuttering
confused
Helicopters line the sky
marching men are rolling by
babies in their baskets blankly stare through space
hey hey
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
Sirens sing over the streets
Chimpanzees are on TV
everybody's working waiting for the week
to end
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothing's left to hide
Ever since I first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
ive been blind
im running out of time
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothings left to hide
oh oh
onto sparkling pavement
havent heard the news you stumble stuttering
confused
Helicopters line the sky
marching men are rolling by
babies in their baskets blankly stare through space
hey hey
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
Sirens sing over the streets
Chimpanzees are on TV
everybody's working waiting for the week
to end
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothing's left to hide
Ever since I first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
ive been blind
im running out of time
Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothings left to hide
oh oh
Lyrics submitted by Aerion
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I'm surprised that I'm the only one who's posted o this song.
Probably because SM was down since their album came out. That's why barley anything from In Reverie has been commented on. Either way, this is definatly a favorite on their new album. I think it kind of speaks for itself. He's trying to find the "light", or the way even though everything is all dark. Bah, bad explanation. I need sleep.
"Life leaks from you fingertips onto sparkling pavement"
Almost a leak you can't control...
yeah great song. and i agree with savestheweez. definately about finding happiness and leaving the darkness/sadness behind. i think chris is turning into a hippie which isn't a bad thing.
This song would make great bumper music for Coast to Coast AM.
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This is the only song from in reverie i can stand. God, through being cool was soooo good, why have they gone downhill so much? SWYA was ok at best, but most of this album is just pathetic. Cmon guys. Don't do this to me.
I don't understand why everyone hates In Reverie. It was a good album. And just for your information, their new album is going to be a lot better because it's "Every scrap of Saves the Day sound ever recorded", so it will have a lot of old stuff on it (hints, things from the Through Being Cool and the Can't Slow Down time period).
yeah, In Reverie is a beautiful album. You didn't honestly believe that STD wouldn't change throughout all these years. It would have been very sad if they didn't.
anyway, I think this song is either about God or about having faith in politicians. But I really think it's about God. He refers to wars and working to earn a living and just stuff that's going on today. And then he says "But i'm driving in the dark towards you/ Not stopping 'till I catch the sunlight in my eyes." I mean, that's what people basically do when they believe in God.
ya this album is by far very new and different to the crap being played these days. i like it better than swya. anyways i think this song is about finding happiness when you're living in a depressed/sad state. i think chris has gotten very spiritual with this album and metaphors are everywhere on this album trying to find peace/happiness.
STD songs are always super difficult to figure out, to me anyway. I put In Reverie on hold for a long long long time, I bought it the second it came out, but am really just now actually LISTENING to it...we'll see what comes of this. They ARE my favorite band.