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"
Emotive, unstable
You're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices
But it's the choices that make us who we are
Go your own way, even seasons have changed
Just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed, you've seemed to ignore the prayers
That have already come about
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
Backing away from the problem of pain
You never had a home
You've been misguided, you're hiding in shadows
For so very long
Don't you believe that you've been deceived?
That you're no better
Than the hair in your eyes
It never disguised what you're really thinking of
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
This is the correlation between salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
I'll guide your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you
In and out of the dark
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
You're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices
But it's the choices that make us who we are
Go your own way, even seasons have changed
Just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed, you've seemed to ignore the prayers
That have already come about
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
Backing away from the problem of pain
You never had a home
You've been misguided, you're hiding in shadows
For so very long
Don't you believe that you've been deceived?
That you're no better
Than the hair in your eyes
It never disguised what you're really thinking of
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
This is the correlation between salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
I'll guide your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you
In and out of the dark
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in
Lyrics submitted by roux89, edited by lovemetal23, Mactire, Broken_and_Hollow, Skoobasteve24
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I think the right lyrics are "Backing away from the problem of pain, you never had a home You’ve been misguided, you're hiding in shadows. For so very long. Don't you believe that you've been deceived? That you're no better than... The hair in your eyes, it never disguised what you're really thinking of"
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i have to agree with rival cycle. after i read these lyrics i got goosebumps. to me the lyrics that stand out the most are: "This is the correlation of salvation and love. Don't drop your arms. I'll guard your heart. With quiet words I'll lead you in and out of the dark"
God is salvation and love and it's saying how to never stop worshiping Him. "Don't drop your arms" A method of worshiping is by raising your arms. Also, God guards out heart as we wait for that one soulmate out there. God also speaks lightly to us, whispering. He is also the light of the world and will lead us out of the dark.
That's what that means to me.
to me "with quiet words i'll lead you in" refers to prayer, quiet words with god, lead you into heaven or as it is in the song, lead you out of dark places...
With quiet words, I'll lead you in and out of the dark
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