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"
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT
FROM HERE TO THOSE STARS
feathers on the sides
of my fingers
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT
FROM HERE TO THOSE
TREMBLING STARS
and the feathers so
fresh
and the nerves so
fresh
Do you swear
the breastbone
was bare
i saw it
and made my
escape
Do you have
any doubt
that he slept
in that bed
i can only repeat
i never saw
him
Better listen
before you fly
all over your
man
Better listen
before i spill
you in
if you could
turn on your
side
move your touch
to that hip
Easy now
easy now
it's a beautiful
night
Garcia
A cigarette
for the
prisoner
THAT RIBBON CRACK
LIKE THIS ONE AND
THIS ONE CRACK LIKE
THOSE OVER THERE AND
THOSE OVER THERE CRACK
LIKE THESE TWO
BRINGING THOSE STRUTTERS
BRINGING THOSE STRUTTERS
AND THAT ONE CRACKS
LIKE THESE DO AND
THESE DO JUST LIKE
THIS OVER HERE AND
THIS OVER HERE
And out on the rim
All the calcium planets
growing in
the darkness
All over the
body
The flapping body
clickety click
clickety
click
I have a greenlight
for fifty thousand
It was the month of
july
We had more in or
going out
You were responsible
for rolling stock
I acn only repeat
i never saw him
in bed
Do you know what
happened to most
of the children
She opened the
tent
to tame a morset
of air
before the sun
came up
FROM HERE TO THOSE STARS
feathers on the sides
of my fingers
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT
FROM HERE TO THOSE
TREMBLING STARS
and the feathers so
fresh
and the nerves so
fresh
Do you swear
the breastbone
was bare
i saw it
and made my
escape
Do you have
any doubt
that he slept
in that bed
i can only repeat
i never saw
him
Better listen
before you fly
all over your
man
Better listen
before i spill
you in
if you could
turn on your
side
move your touch
to that hip
Easy now
easy now
it's a beautiful
night
Garcia
A cigarette
for the
prisoner
THAT RIBBON CRACK
LIKE THIS ONE AND
THIS ONE CRACK LIKE
THOSE OVER THERE AND
THOSE OVER THERE CRACK
LIKE THESE TWO
BRINGING THOSE STRUTTERS
BRINGING THOSE STRUTTERS
AND THAT ONE CRACKS
LIKE THESE DO AND
THESE DO JUST LIKE
THIS OVER HERE AND
THIS OVER HERE
And out on the rim
All the calcium planets
growing in
the darkness
All over the
body
The flapping body
clickety click
clickety
click
I have a greenlight
for fifty thousand
It was the month of
july
We had more in or
going out
You were responsible
for rolling stock
I acn only repeat
i never saw him
in bed
Do you know what
happened to most
of the children
She opened the
tent
to tame a morset
of air
before the sun
came up
Lyrics submitted by Contristo
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
The Holocaust horror.