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"
bajando de la montaña en seguida me puse a cantar una canción sin motivo pero tú te tenías que quejar y siempre estás así no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor y si me voy ya no sé cómo vas a poder decir que lo que hago es cosa tuya y yo sólo voy detrás a repetir lo que digas tú como el loro al dueño si todos saben que soy el que te enseña las historias de naves espaciales los tambores y los pasos de baile y en vez de estar nadando juntos en el fondo del mar en una hoguera con los cuentos de noche me querías quemar y siempre estás así no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor
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Bajando de la montaña, en seguida me puse a cantar Una canción sin motivo pero tu te tenÃas que quejar y siempre estás asà no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor y si me voy ya no sé cómo vas a poder decir que lo que hago es cosa tuya y yo sólo voy detrás a repetir lo que digas tú como el loro al dueño todos saben que soy el que te enseña las historias de naves espaciales los tambores y los pasos de baile y en vez de estar nadando juntos en el fondo del mar en una hoguera con los cuentos de noche me querÃas quemar y siempre estás asà no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor y siempre estás asà no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor y siempre estás asà no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor y siempre estás asà no puedes parar no puedes entender que quiero estar solo que no puedo ser como los demás que solo significa sin nadie alrededor
can someone translate to English please? this sound and vid is amazing!
coming down the mountain, suddenly i started to sing a song<br /> a song without motive, but you had to complain<br /> and you're always like this, you can't stop,<br /> you don't understand that i want to be alone,<br /> that i can't be like everyone else,<br /> that alone means with no one else around,<br /> and if i go i don't know how you're going to say,<br /> that what i do is your thing, and i only follow you to repeat,<br /> what you say like a parrot to it's owner,<br /> everyone knows i'm the one that shows you,<br /> the histories of spacious boats,<br /> the drums and the dance steps,<br /> and instead of swimming together in the ocean floor(or bottom of the ocean),<br /> you wanted to burn me while telling stories by a bonfire<br /> you're always like this, you can't stop,<br /> you don't understand that i want to be alone,<br /> that i can't be like everyone else,<br /> that alone means with no one else around.<br /> you're always like this, you can't stop,<br /> you don't understand that i want to be alone,<br /> that i can't be like everyone else,<br /> that alone means with no one else around.<br /> you're always like this, you can't stop,<br /> you don't understand that i want to be alone,<br /> that i can't be like everyone else,<br /> that alone means with no one else around.<br /> you're always like this, you can't stop,<br /> you don't understand that i want to be alone,<br /> that i can't be like everyone else,<br /> that alone means with no one else around.<br /> <br />
The Ruby Suns did a cover of this song (in English)