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 sea of waves we hug the same plank
(Saw your end)
Just as I'd rehearsed over in my brain
(Saw your end)
The waves suck you in and you drown
If like, you should sink down beneath
I'll swim down, would you?
You?
You hang the anchors over my neck
(Saw your end)
I liked it at first but the more you laughed
The crazier I came
The waves suck you in then you drown
If like, you'd just stay down with me
I'll swim down with you
Is that what you want?
You
Is that what you want?
Wave
Wave
Inside
If like, you should stay down beneath
I'll swim down
Would you?
Is that what you want?
Would you?
Is that what you want?
With you?
You
Escape
Below
Escape
Below
(Saw your end)
Just as I'd rehearsed over in my brain
(Saw your end)
The waves suck you in and you drown
If like, you should sink down beneath
I'll swim down, would you?
You?
You hang the anchors over my neck
(Saw your end)
I liked it at first but the more you laughed
The crazier I came
The waves suck you in then you drown
If like, you'd just stay down with me
I'll swim down with you
Is that what you want?
You
Is that what you want?
Wave
Wave
Inside
If like, you should stay down beneath
I'll swim down
Would you?
Is that what you want?
Would you?
Is that what you want?
With you?
You
Escape
Below
Escape
Below
Lyrics submitted by poolhallXjunkie, edited by orestes16, blacknred
Cherry Waves Lyrics as written by Chi Cheng Abran Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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