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"
Come on, force it down
I'm imagining
Come on, force it down
I'm imagining
Imaging a place where homes are built on frames
And where they plant new bulbs along our graves
With the fall each year
With the fall each year
Each year
And if you think you might
Yes, but if it's not so bright
But if you're a part of my
Whole life
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Coverin' a fault with
Trials and coy displays
Coverin' a fault with
Trials and coy displays
If it isn't worth the time to
Find out how we go
About recalling all the ways
And the reasons are for
With the fall each year
With the fall each year
Each year
And if you think you might
Yes, but if it's not so bright
But if you're a part of my
Whole life
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Vapor lamps in a parking light
You can't see when it's much too far
All that mist in your eyes
Oh, in the night
80 years isn't enough time
50 more isn't more enough
Oh
To right the wrongs
What you're hiding in your back yard
Is turning innocence to apathy
And accusations at another man
Oh
'Cause you don't have a prayer
To put your life into a Christian's hands
Never mind what your
Daughter is taught in school
What she remembers is
What she has learned from you
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Vapor lamps in a parking lot
You can't see when it's much too far
All that mist in your eyes
Oh, in the night
I'm imagining
Come on, force it down
I'm imagining
Imaging a place where homes are built on frames
And where they plant new bulbs along our graves
With the fall each year
With the fall each year
Each year
And if you think you might
Yes, but if it's not so bright
But if you're a part of my
Whole life
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Coverin' a fault with
Trials and coy displays
Coverin' a fault with
Trials and coy displays
If it isn't worth the time to
Find out how we go
About recalling all the ways
And the reasons are for
With the fall each year
With the fall each year
Each year
And if you think you might
Yes, but if it's not so bright
But if you're a part of my
Whole life
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Vapor lamps in a parking light
You can't see when it's much too far
All that mist in your eyes
Oh, in the night
80 years isn't enough time
50 more isn't more enough
Oh
To right the wrongs
What you're hiding in your back yard
Is turning innocence to apathy
And accusations at another man
Oh
'Cause you don't have a prayer
To put your life into a Christian's hands
Never mind what your
Daughter is taught in school
What she remembers is
What she has learned from you
Silhouettes in a window frame
Better run if it's Boo's old man
He won't know if you're white
Oh, in the night
Vapor lamps in a parking lot
You can't see when it's much too far
All that mist in your eyes
Oh, in the night
Lyrics submitted by CharlatanSin, edited by RamuneDrink
Each Year Lyrics as written by John Ryan Pike Alexandra Nicole Lawn
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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