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"
Oh love, the moment that we live now
Will stay with me forever and ever and ever
Too good, you're too perfect for this world
A visitor, I wonder if you're from somewhere better
When they're calling all the angels to a great departure place
Leave us earthly creatures to our fates
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
When it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
Some nights I lie up and watch you sleep
And wonder what places and planets you dream on
Someday I'll come to an empty house
They'll call you back, the silence, celestial beckon
When they're calling all the angels to a great departure place
Leave us earthly creatures to our fates
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
When it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
They're imaginary people in a dream of seas and mountains
And the cities and the towns will all be gone
When they wake up, wake up
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
Before it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Before it's, before it's too late
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
Will stay with me forever and ever and ever
Too good, you're too perfect for this world
A visitor, I wonder if you're from somewhere better
When they're calling all the angels to a great departure place
Leave us earthly creatures to our fates
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
When it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
Some nights I lie up and watch you sleep
And wonder what places and planets you dream on
Someday I'll come to an empty house
They'll call you back, the silence, celestial beckon
When they're calling all the angels to a great departure place
Leave us earthly creatures to our fates
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
When it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
They're imaginary people in a dream of seas and mountains
And the cities and the towns will all be gone
When they wake up, wake up
I'll be running across the desert trying to find you on your way
Change your mind before they close the gates
Before it's too late, come home angel
(Come home angel)
Before it's, before it's too late
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
(Come home angel)
Come home angel
(Come home angel)
Angel don't go
Lyrics submitted by jhewitt127
Come Home Angel Lyrics as written by Dan Wilson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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wow.
i love this song.
Beautiful