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"
A un passo da Gerusalemme
E a solo un miglio dalla luna
Sotto un cielo di milioni di stelle
Ho il cuore perso in un pianeta lontano
Che gira intorno e cade giù
Con archi di tristezza
Io muoio per te
Muoio per te
E se il mio regno diventa sabbia
E cade in fondo al mare
Io muoio per te
Muoio per te
From the dark secluded valleys
I heard the ancient songs of sadness
But every step I thought of you
Every footstep only you
Every star a grain of sand
The leavings of a dried up ocean
Tell me, how much longer?
How much longer?
C'è una città nel deserto e riposa
La vanità di un antico re
Ma la città riposa in pezzi
Dove il vento urla all'avvoltoio
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition
It would make a prison of my life
If you became another's wife
Che i miei nemici siano liberi
Io cado e sono qui
Che muoio per te
Muoio per te
And I have never in my life
Felt more alone than I do now
Although I claim dominions
Cosa sono qui?
Sono niente così
Non ci sono vittorie
Nelle nostre storie
Senza amor
A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And though a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
Che gira intorno e cade giù
Con archi di tristezza
Io muoio per te
I'm lost without you, I'm lost without you
And though you hold the keys to ruin
Of everything I see
With every prison blown to dust
My enemies walk free
I regni miei di sabbia che
Che vanno in fondo al mare
I'm about you
Muoio per te
E a solo un miglio dalla luna
Sotto un cielo di milioni di stelle
Ho il cuore perso in un pianeta lontano
Che gira intorno e cade giù
Con archi di tristezza
Io muoio per te
Muoio per te
E se il mio regno diventa sabbia
E cade in fondo al mare
Io muoio per te
Muoio per te
From the dark secluded valleys
I heard the ancient songs of sadness
But every step I thought of you
Every footstep only you
Every star a grain of sand
The leavings of a dried up ocean
Tell me, how much longer?
How much longer?
C'è una città nel deserto e riposa
La vanità di un antico re
Ma la città riposa in pezzi
Dove il vento urla all'avvoltoio
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition
It would make a prison of my life
If you became another's wife
Che i miei nemici siano liberi
Io cado e sono qui
Che muoio per te
Muoio per te
And I have never in my life
Felt more alone than I do now
Although I claim dominions
Cosa sono qui?
Sono niente così
Non ci sono vittorie
Nelle nostre storie
Senza amor
A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And though a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
Che gira intorno e cade giù
Con archi di tristezza
Io muoio per te
I'm lost without you, I'm lost without you
And though you hold the keys to ruin
Of everything I see
With every prison blown to dust
My enemies walk free
I regni miei di sabbia che
Che vanno in fondo al mare
I'm about you
Muoio per te
Lyrics submitted by sillybunny
Muoio Per Te Lyrics as written by Gordon Sumner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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