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"
She walked by the ocean
And waited for a star
To carry her away
Feelin' so small
At the bottom of the world
Lookin' up to God
Tries to take deep breaths
To smell the salty sea
As it moves over her feet
The water pulls so strong
And no one is around
And the moon is looking down, sayin'
Rosie, come with me
Close your eyes and dream
The big ships are rollin'
And lightin' up the night
And she calls out, but they just her pass by
The waves are crashin'
But not making a sound
Just mouthing along, sayin'
Rosie, come with me
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes and dream
And waited for a star
To carry her away
Feelin' so small
At the bottom of the world
Lookin' up to God
Tries to take deep breaths
To smell the salty sea
As it moves over her feet
The water pulls so strong
And no one is around
And the moon is looking down, sayin'
Rosie, come with me
Close your eyes and dream
The big ships are rollin'
And lightin' up the night
And she calls out, but they just her pass by
The waves are crashin'
But not making a sound
Just mouthing along, sayin'
Rosie, come with me
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes and dream
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Rosie's Lullaby Lyrics as written by Daru Oda Norah Jones
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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