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"
Your legs walked your heart high
Your whole body is sprawling out.
Major view, wide.
I'm on a boulder over alpine tops
On peaking, I watched you cross the water
In my eye, your greys and blues were blonde.
Something that I held onto is leaving,
The shape to what I saw has slowly died,
You're higher on your hill
So your black cloud will come,
So your black cloud will come,
And press you to the ground,
The air will leave your chest
Your faith and where you're found,
You're finally standing still
And your fingers all go numb,
Get higher on your hill
So your big black cloud will come
Your big black cloud will come
See what happens?
Do you see what happens,
When big black death breathes on you with his breath?
I'm wild and woolly and a bloating bully,
I'll strike you down and then,
I'll strike you down again
Do you see what happens?
Do you see what happens
when I peel away your bark,
And stain your blue sky dark?
Your breath I take to live,
Your death I ache to give
So take it in and crumble,
Be smothered in my rumble,
A flash!
And thunder booms!
Our lack of wonder looms,
I'll press you to the ground,
Your fate from where you're found,
The way they share,
(The flesh we tear
So innocent of memory)
They feast,
We invite,
Each bite into our flight
Since we give our blood now into you
And feathers from skin begin.
I am the twilight on the porch
And he follows you,
(I began the falling.
Your hands gripping the table cloth.
Your eyes, only three years old)
The way they share
The memory you did wear
And now your song is inside them.
Your whole body is sprawling out.
Major view, wide.
I'm on a boulder over alpine tops
On peaking, I watched you cross the water
In my eye, your greys and blues were blonde.
Something that I held onto is leaving,
The shape to what I saw has slowly died,
You're higher on your hill
So your black cloud will come,
So your black cloud will come,
And press you to the ground,
The air will leave your chest
Your faith and where you're found,
You're finally standing still
And your fingers all go numb,
Get higher on your hill
So your big black cloud will come
Your big black cloud will come
See what happens?
Do you see what happens,
When big black death breathes on you with his breath?
I'm wild and woolly and a bloating bully,
I'll strike you down and then,
I'll strike you down again
Do you see what happens?
Do you see what happens
when I peel away your bark,
And stain your blue sky dark?
Your breath I take to live,
Your death I ache to give
So take it in and crumble,
Be smothered in my rumble,
A flash!
And thunder booms!
Our lack of wonder looms,
I'll press you to the ground,
Your fate from where you're found,
The way they share,
(The flesh we tear
So innocent of memory)
They feast,
We invite,
Each bite into our flight
Since we give our blood now into you
And feathers from skin begin.
I am the twilight on the porch
And he follows you,
(I began the falling.
Your hands gripping the table cloth.
Your eyes, only three years old)
The way they share
The memory you did wear
And now your song is inside them.
Lyrics submitted by PuppyPunk
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