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"
Come back home when you've learned to sparkle
All alone in the sky
Come back when you don't feel so awful
Show us all how to shine
Cause we love you
And we care about you
But we need you
To tell us the truth
Cause we want you
To really pull through this time
Oh, Oh, Oh
Get your head in the mix
Take your medicine on time
Get your head in the mix
You're gonna feel better in no time
At all, in no time at all
Come back home when you've learned to sparkle
Is it scary out there?
Come back when you don't feel so awful
We really wish you were here
When the visiting hours are over
And there's nobody left there to hold you
Remember Friday will be here soon
You're coming home
You're coming home again
Sparkle!
All alone in the sky
Come back when you don't feel so awful
Show us all how to shine
Cause we love you
And we care about you
But we need you
To tell us the truth
Cause we want you
To really pull through this time
Oh, Oh, Oh
Get your head in the mix
Take your medicine on time
Get your head in the mix
You're gonna feel better in no time
At all, in no time at all
Come back home when you've learned to sparkle
Is it scary out there?
Come back when you don't feel so awful
We really wish you were here
When the visiting hours are over
And there's nobody left there to hold you
Remember Friday will be here soon
You're coming home
You're coming home again
Sparkle!
Lyrics submitted by littleRoom
Sparkle! Lyrics as written by Michael Viola
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Okay, this a song that confused me more than I want to admit. I LOVE this song and play it all the time, but I just didn't get what it meant. I would listen to the lyrics and wonder why a song that seemed to be about the singer's concern for a loved one who, perhaps, may have been recovering in a mental hospital (they needed to 'get [their] head in the mix') sounded so hollow and flippant. There was a sort of dissonance between the lyrics (which sound caring) and the tone and some of the lyrics (which don't make the singer sound all that concerned.) I also didn't get why it matters whether they sparkled~ or not... where did that come from?
But then I thought about a different meaning: maybe the song is about a stage parent or an uncaring manager. It sounds like a situation this parent or manager find themselves in if their charge/performer, their money maker, is overtaxed and so burnt out that they needed serious help. They've been recovering, but are reluctant to get back into the swing of things because their life is so stressful - maybe thanks to the singer's pushiness. The parent/manager in the song acts like they're concerned and want them to get better, but they don't care all that deeply about the person who needs help. They just want them to take their medicine and get on with their life, and mostly because of what the recovering person can do for them.
Basically, I think it's about a selfish, imperceptive person who isn't as worried about a person who depends on them as they could be and don't realize that it's their own behavior that's really hurting the other person. This is probably a HUGE stretch, and maybe I'm reading the song completely wrong, but that's just what makes sense to me.