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"
We hope you enjoy your stay
And it's good to have you with us
Even if it's just for the day
We hope you enjoy your stay
Outside, the sun is shining
It seems like heaven ain't far away
It's good to have you with us
Even if it's just for the day
And it's good to have you with us
Even if it's just for the day
We hope you enjoy your stay
Outside, the sun is shining
It seems like heaven ain't far away
It's good to have you with us
Even if it's just for the day
Lyrics submitted by foldsbaldwin
Enterlude Lyrics as written by Dave Brent Keuning Brandon Flowers
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I think obviously it's referencing to the hotel the album's name is based after, "We hope you enjoy your stay And it’s good to have you with us Even if it’s just for the day" as if the hotel's talking. But something else I noticed is that they went from, "Heaven aint close in a place like this." in STM, and in this they say, "It seems like heaven ain’t far away." There has to be a reference. This is an amazing song/intro.
btw, i haven't heard this on the album yet, just the VMA performance. I wont download the album.
this song makes me feel special its like you just checked into a hotel and then the killers are all there and theyre singing hoping that we enjoy the cd/our visit and yeah...the heaven thingy i think its like goodness is on its way because youre at samstown with teh killers and the killers equals luv =)
Sweet song. I like it; it's a good opening.
Good song. Gives the album a nice personal touch. The Killers have definitely found their sound.
I love this opener.
I didn;t understand why they didn't put it as the First Track?
it's like when you watch a TV program (or a film in some cases) and they show you like a small part, then they have the opening titles.
and then with exitlude they have the closing credits, and then another song, liek a wee snip that they sometimes have at the end of programs (hollyoaks for example)
It turns out that Brandon Flowers is a mormon and they believe that God is a person somewhere. This could make sense of lyrics like 'heaven ain't far away' and 'heaven ain't close in a place like this' from Somebody Told Me, because if God is out there then presumably heaven is a place that can be found on earth.
Brandon Flowers is morman?!