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"
He chased me through the rain
Honey, I'm going your way, I don't think so
You can chase me through the rain
And scream my name, a childish game
But I love to be young
And honey, I was never gonna change
And honey, you are never gonna change
But you love, don't you love it that way
Old stone
Ten thousand years and you're still on your own
Don't you love
Don't you love me that way
And if you swear that you're alright
I'm not gonna try and change your mind
?Cause the same night I dream that I lose you
I'll fall in love
Oh honey, don't let me walk away from this
If I'm trying to fuck up my own life
Then until I figure out why
I think it's best you keep your distance
Lest I fall in love
Old stone
Ten thousand years and you're still on your own
Don't you love
Don't you love me that way
He chased me through the rain
Honey, I'm going your way, I don't think so
You can chase me through the rain
And scream my name, a childish game
But I love to be young
Honey, I'm going your way, I don't think so
You can chase me through the rain
And scream my name, a childish game
But I love to be young
And honey, I was never gonna change
And honey, you are never gonna change
But you love, don't you love it that way
Old stone
Ten thousand years and you're still on your own
Don't you love
Don't you love me that way
And if you swear that you're alright
I'm not gonna try and change your mind
?Cause the same night I dream that I lose you
I'll fall in love
Oh honey, don't let me walk away from this
If I'm trying to fuck up my own life
Then until I figure out why
I think it's best you keep your distance
Lest I fall in love
Old stone
Ten thousand years and you're still on your own
Don't you love
Don't you love me that way
He chased me through the rain
Honey, I'm going your way, I don't think so
You can chase me through the rain
And scream my name, a childish game
But I love to be young
Lyrics submitted by abrelasorejas
Old Stone Lyrics as written by Laura Beatrice Marling
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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At a wild guess, this was not what Laura Marling was thinking of when she wrote this song, and I doubt that there are many others that think this, but to me, this song encapsules asexuality, or at least my own thoughts and feelings as an asexual.
"'Honey I'm going your way' / I don't think so" Allusion to the phrase "I don't bend that way", asexuality is kind of seen as an invisible persuasion, so people just assume one is straight/gay.
"Honey I was never gonna change" Asexuality is not (necessarily) a fluid thing, or a 'phase'.
"ten thousand years and your still on your own / don't you love me (/it) that way?" it = Is solitude the life you choose for yourself? me = romance is still possible within asexuality, but as an asexual I would not ever want a sexual relationship - I could fall in love, but I will not love 'you' that way.
"if you swear that you're alright / I'm not gonna try and change your mind" A sort of repetition that asexuality is not a phase/statement/choice - you can't just change your mind about it.
"Don't let me walk away from this / if I'm trying to fuck up my own life / and until I figure out why / I think it's best you keep your distance / lest I fall in love." The idea of a platonic relationship of sorts makes me feel this way: overthinking something like that (which I, at least, would definitely do!) would ruin it because no sane conclusion where something can work out happily, for example if the other person is sexual, would be thought out, because I would always feel like I am holding that person back or whatever. ie. "Don't let me back out of this before it has started, but at the same time it is best not to start at all, because I can't "figure out why" it would work and I don't want to come to depend on you too much and then ruin what we have."
Like I say, just my thoughts whenever I hear the song.
LOL. Asexual, huh. That's a new one:) Mr. Webster apparently changed the definition and didn't tell us.