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"
who lives in a pinecone tangled in steel?
who talks to a pinecone alone?
hey hey hey hey
love letters and cell phones
filled up with dead codes to old homes
connect you to no one
a message for no one
scroll through the old ones
colleagues and cousins
obsessions and lovers who write
"hey hey hey hey"
scroll through the future
will you find another?
will you find another?
will you find a lawyer?
a teacher? a brother?
a healer? or what?
hey hey hey hey
i've got a message for you
from the monopines
shell trunk and poor disguise
i've got a message to no one
from the monopines
steel trunk shoots for the sky
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
i got a feeling that can never be
i got a feeling it can never be
that's my tendency
who lives on the nightstand
where you close your eyes?
after a soft good-bye
there's no dialtone to linger on
no mystery to unwind
i've got a message for you
from the monopines
shell trunk and poor disguise
i've got a message to no one
from the monopines
steel trunk shoots for the sky
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
i got a feeling that can never be
i got a feeling it can never be
the way you thought it would be
you thought it would be
you thought it would be
the words rumble under the thunder of the year's first storm
the words rumble under the thunder
the words rumble under the thunder of the year's first storm
the words rumble under the thunder
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
every blade of grass is a knife
breaking through earth on its way to the sky
in the atmosphere, words that missed their target ear
all colliding into flames
past the timberline, some urgent words of mine
are being mangled by their monopine
way past the highest cloud
words are slipping in and out
of a trick dimension
me and a box of wine
we're running out of time
to capture your attention
i want to hear you breathe
to know just what you need
come and connect me to you
i want to hear you breathe
come and connect me to you
come and connect me to you
who talks to a pinecone alone?
hey hey hey hey
love letters and cell phones
filled up with dead codes to old homes
connect you to no one
a message for no one
scroll through the old ones
colleagues and cousins
obsessions and lovers who write
"hey hey hey hey"
scroll through the future
will you find another?
will you find another?
will you find a lawyer?
a teacher? a brother?
a healer? or what?
hey hey hey hey
i've got a message for you
from the monopines
shell trunk and poor disguise
i've got a message to no one
from the monopines
steel trunk shoots for the sky
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
i got a feeling that can never be
i got a feeling it can never be
that's my tendency
who lives on the nightstand
where you close your eyes?
after a soft good-bye
there's no dialtone to linger on
no mystery to unwind
i've got a message for you
from the monopines
shell trunk and poor disguise
i've got a message to no one
from the monopines
steel trunk shoots for the sky
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
i got a feeling that can never be
i got a feeling it can never be
the way you thought it would be
you thought it would be
you thought it would be
the words rumble under the thunder of the year's first storm
the words rumble under the thunder
the words rumble under the thunder of the year's first storm
the words rumble under the thunder
don't wait to hear from me
brace your face for the fist of spring
every blade of grass is a knife
breaking through earth on its way to the sky
in the atmosphere, words that missed their target ear
all colliding into flames
past the timberline, some urgent words of mine
are being mangled by their monopine
way past the highest cloud
words are slipping in and out
of a trick dimension
me and a box of wine
we're running out of time
to capture your attention
i want to hear you breathe
to know just what you need
come and connect me to you
i want to hear you breathe
come and connect me to you
come and connect me to you
Lyrics submitted by bocmaxima
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yah i really doubt its that spiChel. this song is amazing. now that I know what a monopine is this song makes a lot of sense. really pretty lyrics to a really pretty song.