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"
Shimmering traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, banishing the darkest night
Waiting for traveling light
Though the sun has yet to appear
Inkling faint perception is near
Bloodied, battered in the dew
Leaves and trees are calling you
Waiting for traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
It knows no time, it knows no bounds
Coming clear beneath the clouds
Destination here and now
I behold traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
She knows no time, she knows no bounds
Waves of light are traveling
Cloak of night unraveling
I believe in traveling light
Shimmering, traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, I'll see her tomorrow night
Waiting for my traveling light
Shimmering traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, banishing the darkest night
Waiting for traveling light
Though the sun has yet to appear
Inkling faint perception is near
Bloodied, battered in the dew
Leaves and trees are calling you
Waiting for traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
It knows no time, it knows no bounds
Coming clear beneath the clouds
Destination here and now
I behold traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
She knows no time, she knows no bounds
Waves of light are traveling
Cloak of night unraveling
I believe in traveling light
Shimmering, traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, I'll see her tomorrow night
Waiting for my traveling light
Glimmering, glistening, banishing the darkest night
Waiting for traveling light
Though the sun has yet to appear
Inkling faint perception is near
Bloodied, battered in the dew
Leaves and trees are calling you
Waiting for traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
It knows no time, it knows no bounds
Coming clear beneath the clouds
Destination here and now
I behold traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
She knows no time, she knows no bounds
Waves of light are traveling
Cloak of night unraveling
I believe in traveling light
Shimmering, traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, I'll see her tomorrow night
Waiting for my traveling light
Shimmering traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, banishing the darkest night
Waiting for traveling light
Though the sun has yet to appear
Inkling faint perception is near
Bloodied, battered in the dew
Leaves and trees are calling you
Waiting for traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
It knows no time, it knows no bounds
Coming clear beneath the clouds
Destination here and now
I behold traveling light
Shimmering, traveling by
Magical waves just under the sky
She knows no time, she knows no bounds
Waves of light are traveling
Cloak of night unraveling
I believe in traveling light
Shimmering, traveling light, echoing love at first sight
Glimmering, glistening, I'll see her tomorrow night
Waiting for my traveling light
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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