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"
You'll walk unscathed through musket fire
No ploughman's blade will cut thee down
No cutlass wound will mark thy face
And you will be my ain true love
And you will be my ain true love
And as you walk through death's dark veil
The cannon's thunder can't prevail
And those who hunt thee down will fail
And you will be my ain true love
And you will be my ain true love
Asleep inside the cannon's mouth
The captain cries, 'here comes the rout!'
They'll seek to find me north and south
I've gone to find my ain true love
The field is cut and bleeds to red
The cannon balls fly 'round my head
The infirmary man may count me dead
When I've gone to find my ain true love
I've gone to find my ain true love
No ploughman's blade will cut thee down
No cutlass wound will mark thy face
And you will be my ain true love
And you will be my ain true love
And as you walk through death's dark veil
The cannon's thunder can't prevail
And those who hunt thee down will fail
And you will be my ain true love
And you will be my ain true love
Asleep inside the cannon's mouth
The captain cries, 'here comes the rout!'
They'll seek to find me north and south
I've gone to find my ain true love
The field is cut and bleeds to red
The cannon balls fly 'round my head
The infirmary man may count me dead
When I've gone to find my ain true love
I've gone to find my ain true love
Lyrics submitted by Joekubrick
You Will Be My Ain True Love Lyrics as written by Gordon Sumner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song makes me think of ture love. Its' from cold mountain, which i haven't seen but know some of the story, with two people who have been seperated because of war but still remain in love. They are fighting through death and combat to get to one another, never giving up and doing as much as they can to find each other.
It really fits the Cold Mountain story perfectly.
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oh yes i fforgot to tell that's my favourite song of all times.. :D
this song is gorgeous!!!!!! i love it
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This song is somewhat simple but really haunting, about love being strong enough to overcome anything even though the world has gone to hell and life very often just doesn't work out that way. It perfectly fits the heroine character in the movie and the kind of hope she holds onto but I think somehow still sort of conveys the darkness of the story.
This is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs made in recent years. Because of this, I would like to point out that the lyrics floating around on the internet aren't quite accurate.
They sing: 'No cutlass wound will mar thy face.'
As well as: 'They'll seek to bind me North and South.'
Is it possible to have these corrections made to the lyrics?
This song strikes like a thunderbolt. The woman tries to deliver her man to safety, and to her, by her blessings. The man speaks as a maelstrom overtakes him. The possibility hinted by the last verse that he is already dying, and that he has gone to find his true love in another world, adds to the haunting effect.