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"
Dear charming kite
Do litely bite
The foggy fields, the lowing lanes
The rickety roads and the kneeling plains
Oh lazy light
With massive might
You down my dream of snowy cloth
Felt snapping white as albatross
Is bitten by the wind and rocks
Is hushed into the clary moss
Is ushered here to count his loss
My kite, pale cotton, willow cross
Take my tattered fist
It's like a catalyst
It's like a roiling, rising wall of 'Has it come to this?'
If this is medicine, whoa-oh
It tastes like medicine
Just help me get it in
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
Oh gnarly night
It's like a dogfight
It's like a cat fight
And if I could just hold you close to me, whoa-oh
I guess I'd hold you close to me
It's like a bull fight
And I say I'd give you a piece of my mind
But I'm giving you a piece of my mind
You blush-ing boy, how could you be so blind?
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite
Oh, oh
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
La da da, dee di
Look at my kite fly
Over foggy fields, the pungent pines
The verdant vales, and the vapid vines
And the thousand purple cups of wine
The tearing teeth and the four full tines
The crumpling feast and the dawdling dine
And you do
Get me off the floor
Stand there staring for a minute
Like you never saw a girl before
There is the door
At night the streets are like an open mouth
I head south
And you stand fair and square, and I stand there
Until the fall blots me out
There is no more
The cat and mouse to block the door
There is no more
Do litely bite
The foggy fields, the lowing lanes
The rickety roads and the kneeling plains
Oh lazy light
With massive might
You down my dream of snowy cloth
Felt snapping white as albatross
Is bitten by the wind and rocks
Is hushed into the clary moss
Is ushered here to count his loss
My kite, pale cotton, willow cross
Take my tattered fist
It's like a catalyst
It's like a roiling, rising wall of 'Has it come to this?'
If this is medicine, whoa-oh
It tastes like medicine
Just help me get it in
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
Oh gnarly night
It's like a dogfight
It's like a cat fight
And if I could just hold you close to me, whoa-oh
I guess I'd hold you close to me
It's like a bull fight
And I say I'd give you a piece of my mind
But I'm giving you a piece of my mind
You blush-ing boy, how could you be so blind?
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite
Oh, oh
Flying a kite, flying
A kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying a kite, flying a
Kite, flying a kite
Flying, flying a
Kite, oh whoa-oh
La da da, dee di
Look at my kite fly
Over foggy fields, the pungent pines
The verdant vales, and the vapid vines
And the thousand purple cups of wine
The tearing teeth and the four full tines
The crumpling feast and the dawdling dine
And you do
Get me off the floor
Stand there staring for a minute
Like you never saw a girl before
There is the door
At night the streets are like an open mouth
I head south
And you stand fair and square, and I stand there
Until the fall blots me out
There is no more
The cat and mouse to block the door
There is no more
Lyrics submitted by amina, edited by emily10213
Flying a Kite Lyrics as written by Joanna Newsom
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING
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I think it means that she is flying a kite.