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"
There's some kind of light
At the end
When touching the edge of her skin
(Edge of her skin)
Once so hard to speak now so easy to play around
Catching your eye you know
That eye that slapped you in your face
Calls you a puppy
Well, how do you say I was hypnotized
Hypnotized
My words, they pour
Like children to the playground
Children to the playground
You make me smile
Some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
Could you be the one that's not afraid to look me in the eye?
I swear I would collapse if I would tell how I think you fell
From the sky
My words, they pour
Like children to the playground
Children to the playground
You make me smile
Some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
It's the feeling I get
My palms with sweat
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget
I'm stuck in this spin
Why does it begin
By touching the edge of her skin
It's the feeling I get
My palms with sweat
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget
I'm stuck in this spin
Why does it begin
By touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh, oh, ah
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh, oh, ah
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh
At the end
When touching the edge of her skin
(Edge of her skin)
Once so hard to speak now so easy to play around
Catching your eye you know
That eye that slapped you in your face
Calls you a puppy
Well, how do you say I was hypnotized
Hypnotized
My words, they pour
Like children to the playground
Children to the playground
You make me smile
Some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
Could you be the one that's not afraid to look me in the eye?
I swear I would collapse if I would tell how I think you fell
From the sky
My words, they pour
Like children to the playground
Children to the playground
You make me smile
Some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
It's the feeling I get
My palms with sweat
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget
I'm stuck in this spin
Why does it begin
By touching the edge of her skin
It's the feeling I get
My palms with sweat
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget
I'm stuck in this spin
Why does it begin
By touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
There's some kind of light at the end
Stoned, forgetful, and then
I'm drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh, oh, ah
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh, oh, ah
Wow, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, oh
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The thought of a girl makes him extremely excited. Either him and here were once in a relationship or he wanted to be in a relationship with her. But either way it was hard for him to express how he felt, all he knew is that it was unexplainable. He says I swear I would collapse If I would tell how I think you fell From the sky. He is to nervous to tell her he thinks she is an angel.
He caught her eye and she caught his and they feel into puppy love and were hypnotized.
The only way he can explain how he feels is that he feels as excited as a child going to a playground. He is stuck in this playground reliving every moment they shared or every moment he wants to share with her. Then every once in a while he tries to escape this "dream". That is what he means by -- There's some kind of light at the end Stoned, forgetful-every once in a while he gets to the point where he can forget, but something reminds him of her-and then he's drinking what used to be sin and touching the edge of her skin-he is savoring what felt would feel too good, but it is wrong, she may be in some other relationship, but all he wants to do is remember touching her or to do it in the first place.
He says he is stuck in this spin, meaning he is stuck in these thoughts and they are never ending.
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