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"
If I did, meant not to
If I said, thought I not
Touching hands with the whiteness of your mouth
Quiet inside, I figure this is our place to be
Tall, just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find its head
But if there's a glitch
You're an osterich
You've got your head in the sand
Husky glow, the moon has no
Saddening retrogrey
Monkeycage, did they lit the lamp at night
All our bears, swimming in the green covine
They're not safe
Fall, like ledbetter eyes
You choose a stance to hypnotize
It is mice, you know?
It leaves them to grow
It's such a magical life
Tall just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find ts head
But if there's a glitch
You're an osterich
You've got your head in the sand
Fall, like ledbetter eyes
You choose a stance to hypnotize
It is mice, you know?
It leaves them to grow
It's such a magical life
Animals of many kinds
I'm surrounded by
Animals of many kinds
I'm surrounded by
If I said, thought I not
Touching hands with the whiteness of your mouth
Quiet inside, I figure this is our place to be
Tall, just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find its head
But if there's a glitch
You're an osterich
You've got your head in the sand
Husky glow, the moon has no
Saddening retrogrey
Monkeycage, did they lit the lamp at night
All our bears, swimming in the green covine
They're not safe
Fall, like ledbetter eyes
You choose a stance to hypnotize
It is mice, you know?
It leaves them to grow
It's such a magical life
Tall just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find ts head
But if there's a glitch
You're an osterich
You've got your head in the sand
Fall, like ledbetter eyes
You choose a stance to hypnotize
It is mice, you know?
It leaves them to grow
It's such a magical life
Animals of many kinds
I'm surrounded by
Animals of many kinds
I'm surrounded by
Lyrics submitted by Vezo
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