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"
While the crowd is waiting for the final kiss
The one which allows them to sleep well
We walk along a wrong path
The one which will lead us to a wrong place
We need hints
Before we get tired
But we need hints
Before we get tired
Now we need hints before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track
We need hints
Before we get tired
We need hints
Before we get tired
Now we need speed before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track
The one which allows them to sleep well
We walk along a wrong path
The one which will lead us to a wrong place
We need hints
Before we get tired
But we need hints
Before we get tired
Now we need hints before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track
We need hints
Before we get tired
We need hints
Before we get tired
Now we need speed before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track
Lyrics submitted by mrpeachum
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Not every song is about Jesus people! The song to me is about choosing the right path in life before the "final kiss" goodnight..."the one which allows you to sleep well" comes along. To be on the right path means to live your life well and be a good person. To know this you must look for "hints" along the way before you get too far down the wrong path and "lose pace"...meaning you don't know your way back to the right path or you come to the end of your life and have not lived the way you intended.
Can't believe there's no comments on this. I think it's gorgeous. I'm not sure what it means but I love it.
this is one of my favorite songs on the album, his voice has a completely tone on this song. it still has that same haunting quality, but its nice to hear the full capacity of his voice.
this might be wrong but i've always thought of it as needing a 'hint' from God to know that 'we're on the right track' and that he really exists 'before we get tired' i.e. lose faith and give up? I think the first stanza might be referring to all the people who have lost faith and turn to other things 'which allow them to sleep well' and the 'wrong path' is all the wrong places we look for hope or some way to get by...? I'm not an ardent Christian or anything but it's just what the lyrics suggest
I reckon you might be on to something Replica, the final kiss could be Judas kissing Jesus and betraying him. Jesus made some people feel uneasy, right or wrong. They wanted him gone. This was the wrong thing to do. The wrong path etc... thus, I love you.
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I know this isn't a lyric comment, but this is probably one of the most difficult song to play on the guitar I know. And clearly the hardest on this album.
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i didnt see a religious theme in this song at all. to me it describes when your 'getting intimate' with someone. how you need a hint to whether the other person wants the same thing you do. i like how it changes from 'we need hints before we get tired' to 'we need speed before we get tired', or maybe i just have a dirty mind.
"While the crowd is waiting for the final kiss The one which allows them to sleep well"
Like the end of a movie - the happy ending in a fantasy setting e.g. play/movie etc.
"We walk along a wrong path..."
It's happy endings of what we see or what we want, and the relative ease that always seems to be the case in movies and dramas, versus what real life is like.
This song to me sounds like it's like a cry for help, or atleast a need for acknowledgment in a period of pain/growth. If we don't get that, if there's no respite in the pain, then we give up and become the crowd waiting for the final kiss, just so we can sleep well hoping that some day that this will happen to us, instead of us making it happen.
This is a song of the ideal (2 lines) versus the real (14 lines) hard work needed for life/relationships/desires to be fulfilled.
We are all here on Earth, until the kiss of death allows us to sleep forever. We live a wordly existence, heading down a path shrowded in darkness, towards a sure end. We need help along the way. We need encouragement to stay motivated. We need someone to guide us in our decisions, example-setters and advice-givers.
We are all here on Earth, until the kiss of death allows us to sleep forever. We live a wordly existence, heading down a path shrowded in darkness, towards a sure end. We need help along the way. We need encouragement to stay motivated. We need someone to guide us in our decisions, example-setters and advice-givers.