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"
it's been so long since i've seen so many of our friends!
you say, the light is coming from up the night sky
reflect off the rise realize that we were
safe in each other for some time now
the new world sung whatever's come our way
sing out to whatever you believe in
sing out to bring it all out
now sing out to anyone to anything
or to everything at once
you're so ----
---------------
you're part of me
you're part of us
you're so far
you're so ----
you're part of me
you're part of everything
let's rock!
i look back and see these facial expressions upon your knees
and we ask ourselves too many questions
about what creation is and what it means
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
of everything that we found together
in times of trouble past the times of doubt
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
keep keepin' your head up and you'll see
that good things are on the horizon
sometimes i feel like i know
the answers to this constant flow
a continue of consistant confusion
not to be confused with fickle frustration
and i ask what is the meaning
of that word we use so loosely
it's a term we define too highly
in a center which we recieve and grieve so widely
in the end, when it's not going on, do we give up?
do we leave our concessions to mend something that's not to be taken lightly?
do we move on? we most past---
past the ugly, past the flask
success it's true what you make it
what we firmly define as being yours and mine
keep it going
yup
you're part of me
you're part of everything
i look back and see these facial expressions upon your knees
and we ask ourselves too many questions
about what creation is and what it means
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
of everything that we found together
in times of trouble past the times of doubt
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
keep keepin' your head up and you'll see
that good things are on the horizon
all i wanna do is spread love to you
over and again through every song that we do
this is the truth the audience
is here but not so near and
all i want to do is be a part of you
and this is the truth
it's not a fight it's just how it feels
it's right
you say, the light is coming from up the night sky
reflect off the rise realize that we were
safe in each other for some time now
the new world sung whatever's come our way
sing out to whatever you believe in
sing out to bring it all out
now sing out to anyone to anything
or to everything at once
you're so ----
---------------
you're part of me
you're part of us
you're so far
you're so ----
you're part of me
you're part of everything
let's rock!
i look back and see these facial expressions upon your knees
and we ask ourselves too many questions
about what creation is and what it means
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
of everything that we found together
in times of trouble past the times of doubt
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
keep keepin' your head up and you'll see
that good things are on the horizon
sometimes i feel like i know
the answers to this constant flow
a continue of consistant confusion
not to be confused with fickle frustration
and i ask what is the meaning
of that word we use so loosely
it's a term we define too highly
in a center which we recieve and grieve so widely
in the end, when it's not going on, do we give up?
do we leave our concessions to mend something that's not to be taken lightly?
do we move on? we most past---
past the ugly, past the flask
success it's true what you make it
what we firmly define as being yours and mine
keep it going
yup
you're part of me
you're part of everything
i look back and see these facial expressions upon your knees
and we ask ourselves too many questions
about what creation is and what it means
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
of everything that we found together
in times of trouble past the times of doubt
we've come a long way to find this
true love so let this remind us
keep keepin' your head up and you'll see
that good things are on the horizon
all i wanna do is spread love to you
over and again through every song that we do
this is the truth the audience
is here but not so near and
all i want to do is be a part of you
and this is the truth
it's not a fight it's just how it feels
it's right
Lyrics submitted by goblinbones
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