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"
Why don't you go
Photograph everything that ever passed in time (time)
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs
Vanishing hereditary lines (lines)
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Nature based beings
Will survive apocalyptic days of now
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Of it all
Run away with me now
Run away with me now
My life
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all
Why don't you go
And photograph everything that ever passed in time (time)
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
When you see that honking antelope
Secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Of it all
Run away with me now
Run away with me now
My love
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?
Photograph everything that ever passed in time (time)
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs
Vanishing hereditary lines (lines)
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Nature based beings
Will survive apocalyptic days of now
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Of it all
Run away with me now
Run away with me now
My life
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all
Why don't you go
And photograph everything that ever passed in time (time)
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
When you see that honking antelope
Secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all
Of it all
Run away with me now
Run away with me now
My love
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?
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Why don't you go Photograph everything that ever passed in time Indigenous traces Trouble Shes languishing heditary lies Poets gone wild On the muse Prophets are destroying the dao
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Nature based beings Work for apocalyptic days of now Poets gone wild On the muse Prophets are destroying their bough
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Run away with me now Run away with me now Alive When you are the cause of the world thats gone wrong Nature will survive us, even gods, after all
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thats the best i could do and i see it as either the Dao Or the Dow jones, but i think the Dao makes much more sense