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"
Maze broken
She’s runnin’
Feet swollen
He’s commin’
She’s stolen
And before he even knows it she’s gone.
Tea cups sittin’ on the hollow tree stumps
He’s dumped, and can’t seem to swallow these lumps
The beat goes on…
Same fire
New passion
Old flame
Trade it in for a summer fling
There’s nothing like that sweet old song…
Tip over
Root the trees
Bend the leaves
Blend in with the open wound
The freeze frames keep him warm…
The day’s frost is scrapped off the weight loss
The new sign that says keep off
As he speeds off into the storm…
Out of sight the lighting strikes him twice
He’s peeking out on the pike and cheatin life
Pealing out on the lawn
Now he’s idling
His time is dwindling
In his mind he’s figuring out life’s about the little things
And his labyrinth
And all his magnificent can only keep the mike straps
The princess is innocent
She doesn’t belong…
(I never thought I’d miss you)
They had a ceremony where he put her in a bridle, the headstall…
She stopped to think for a minute, and in a split second went AWOL.
(I never thought I’d miss you)
He draws in the chin as in a expression of resentment or scorn
He’s pullin’ on the rains, the bridle, the shower the storm
The maze, the high tower, clouds are at war…
The rains, the bridle, the shower, the storm…
The maze, high tower, clouds are at war…
The rains, the bridle, the shower, the storm…
The maze, the high tower, clouds are at war, clouds are at war, clouds are at war…
(I never thought I’d miss you) – repeat 3x
She’s runnin’
Feet swollen
He’s commin’
She’s stolen
And before he even knows it she’s gone.
Tea cups sittin’ on the hollow tree stumps
He’s dumped, and can’t seem to swallow these lumps
The beat goes on…
Same fire
New passion
Old flame
Trade it in for a summer fling
There’s nothing like that sweet old song…
Tip over
Root the trees
Bend the leaves
Blend in with the open wound
The freeze frames keep him warm…
The day’s frost is scrapped off the weight loss
The new sign that says keep off
As he speeds off into the storm…
Out of sight the lighting strikes him twice
He’s peeking out on the pike and cheatin life
Pealing out on the lawn
Now he’s idling
His time is dwindling
In his mind he’s figuring out life’s about the little things
And his labyrinth
And all his magnificent can only keep the mike straps
The princess is innocent
She doesn’t belong…
(I never thought I’d miss you)
They had a ceremony where he put her in a bridle, the headstall…
She stopped to think for a minute, and in a split second went AWOL.
(I never thought I’d miss you)
He draws in the chin as in a expression of resentment or scorn
He’s pullin’ on the rains, the bridle, the shower the storm
The maze, the high tower, clouds are at war…
The rains, the bridle, the shower, the storm…
The maze, high tower, clouds are at war…
The rains, the bridle, the shower, the storm…
The maze, the high tower, clouds are at war, clouds are at war, clouds are at war…
(I never thought I’d miss you) – repeat 3x
Lyrics submitted by ScottXcore
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Well here goes I think this song sounds to me like Some guy didn't treat his wife that well so she ditched out on him. He chased after her but she's gone and now he realizes how much she meant to him.
I think the part about the tower and the princess is about him trying to keep her all cooped up like a trophy wife and the same with the bridle and headstall like he was just a prize stallion to him. Then the start is her taking off, the song is written non chronologically? I'm not so sure about the same fire new passion old flame traded in for a summer fling. anyone wanna help me out on this?
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