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 hear the sirens oh no
Coming to remind me to go
Silence is golden I know
Until the silence is known
And the plans were carried on
We were the victims all along
Is it true did the world stop turning
When the rain came down
When the rain came down on
Maitland Street
Would we drown in the sorrow
Of another defeat?
Will we be remembered if we
Don't get beat?
Got your head in the clouds
Your feet on the ground
Will we be remembered?
Will we be remembered?
Or lost in history
Of Maitland Street
Looking for an echo
Searchin' for somewhere to go
We found a place that we called home
But it was empty yeah
Yeah there was nobody there
And the clouds began to break
We tried to run but it was too late
Now it's done and you gotta move on
'Cause it's never gonna be the same
Doesn't anybody know?
What happened all those years ago?
Doesn't anybody know?
Is it true did the world stop turning
When the rain came down
Coming to remind me to go
Silence is golden I know
Until the silence is known
And the plans were carried on
We were the victims all along
Is it true did the world stop turning
When the rain came down
When the rain came down on
Maitland Street
Would we drown in the sorrow
Of another defeat?
Will we be remembered if we
Don't get beat?
Got your head in the clouds
Your feet on the ground
Will we be remembered?
Will we be remembered?
Or lost in history
Of Maitland Street
Looking for an echo
Searchin' for somewhere to go
We found a place that we called home
But it was empty yeah
Yeah there was nobody there
And the clouds began to break
We tried to run but it was too late
Now it's done and you gotta move on
'Cause it's never gonna be the same
Doesn't anybody know?
What happened all those years ago?
Doesn't anybody know?
Is it true did the world stop turning
When the rain came down
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So is Maitland Street an actual location and did something happent here? I dont follow east coast local politics.
wait, don't quote me on that. i could be wrong.
nonetheless, this song is about the september 11 attacks so i assume the world trade center was on maitland street.
Wrong!! The song's not about 9/11, I'm pretty sure its about a fire in Canada that happened on Maitland Street.
It's totally about 9/11, although like most songs, it incorporates and touches on other events that also fit into the metaphor. Chris said himself "My take on 9/11, for what it's worth." The WTC was not on "Maitland Street", so it's either a fictional location, or a street he came upon (I imagine in Oz, I live in NY, so) and liked the name enough to use it.
the twin towers were on maitland street. ;)