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"
Standing on a beach somewhere
Looking for something to see
As the beach rolls in, I swear
It's bringing something to me
Baby, one day I'll have what I want:
Someone to stand next to me
But until then, I'll just wait and watch
As the pull rolls into me
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby
Beach foam, beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Standing on a shore somewhere
Looking for something to be
As the beach rolls in, I swear
It's bringing something to me
Baby, one day I'll have what I want
Baby, one day I'll follow the stream
But until then I'll just wait and watch
As the pull rolls into me
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby
Beach foam, beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Beach foam baby, beach foam
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Looking for something to see
As the beach rolls in, I swear
It's bringing something to me
Baby, one day I'll have what I want:
Someone to stand next to me
But until then, I'll just wait and watch
As the pull rolls into me
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby
Beach foam, beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Standing on a shore somewhere
Looking for something to be
As the beach rolls in, I swear
It's bringing something to me
Baby, one day I'll have what I want
Baby, one day I'll follow the stream
But until then I'll just wait and watch
As the pull rolls into me
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby
Beach foam, beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Beach foam baby, beach foam
Beach foam baby
Midnight baby, midnight baby
Midnight
Lyrics submitted by shirtsleeves, edited by Art93
Beach Foam Lyrics as written by Samuel Thompson Herring John Gerrit Welmers
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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