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"
Breathe in, breathe out
Tell me all of your doubts
Everybody bleeds this way, just the same
Breathe in, breathe out
Move on and break down
If everyone goes away, I will stay
We push and pull
And I fall down sometimes
And I’m not letting go
You hold the other line
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Hold on, hold tight
If I’m out of your sight
And everything keeps moving on, moving on
Hold on, hold tight
Make it through another night
In every day there comes a song with the dawn
We push and pull
And I fall down sometimes
And I’m not letting go
You hold the other line
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Look left, look right
To the moon and the night
Everything under the stars is in your arms
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Tell me all of your doubts
Everybody bleeds this way, just the same
Breathe in, breathe out
Move on and break down
If everyone goes away, I will stay
We push and pull
And I fall down sometimes
And I’m not letting go
You hold the other line
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Hold on, hold tight
If I’m out of your sight
And everything keeps moving on, moving on
Hold on, hold tight
Make it through another night
In every day there comes a song with the dawn
We push and pull
And I fall down sometimes
And I’m not letting go
You hold the other line
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Breathe in and breathe out
Look left, look right
To the moon and the night
Everything under the stars is in your arms
Cause there is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
There is a light in your eyes, in your eyes
Lyrics submitted by noquinhas84
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I've hated every one of Mat Kearney's songs up to this point. It's a beautiful song. I think it's meaning is generally about how the singer is inspired and lifted up by another person and they are mutually there for each other. The other person's going through a hard time and he's just saying that it'll be okay and kind of talking about how that person makes him feel better and calms him down as well. They're just eachother's support systems (doesn't even have to be a romantic relationship) and he's just being there for another person. It's such a pretty song!
Well first of all Mat Kearney's music is freakin awesome. Go see him live if you dont think he's good.. he's got quite a bit of God given talent. But this song is symbolism. If you watch the music video, It's Mat (who died) and he's comforting this girl... it looked like a random girl to me. But that symbolized Jesus (God) always being there for us. And the girl felt Jesus' presence right then in her time of need.
Umm I basically agree with everyone else, about telling the girl that even if he's not with her, that everything will be ok. I mean the song does leave it open to pretty much whatever you want to interpret it as. At first I took it as they were boyfriend and girlfriend and she's kind of upset or they were fighting and he's telling her that everything's fine.
We push and pull And I fall down sometimes But I’m not letting go You hold the other line
I think that part is about they fight sometimes but that won't break them, he won't let go of her, because she's his other half.
However you interpret it, its a beautiful song. :D
Just saw this on Greys Anatomy. Such a beautiful song!
I love Mat Kearney... there's so much feeling in his voice. This song is amazing!
Heard on VH1 - awesome!
Normally I can't stand Mat Kearney's music, but I must admit, this is a really good song.
youtube.com/watch thats a link to the video. And if u wanna listen to another one of his great song's, listen to Nothing Left To Lose.
I'm not a fan of Mat Kearney at all, I just don't like his music's genre. But I LOVE this song! (Its my ringtone!) The lyrics are really loose, so really you can interpret this song almost any way you want. The first time I heard it, I thought it seemed like Kearney was singing to a girl he liked whose boyfriend just broke up with her. He's comforting her to tell her that he cares about her--
"If everyone goes away, I will stay"
He's also saying that he knows she can get through this and that she'll be OK--
"Everybody bleeds this way, just the same"
I know in the music video its about him dying, but like I said, the lyrics are open to interpretation.
This song makes me like sob. But its basically about what everyone else said.