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"
I'm pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses
I feel like I'm drowning, but nobody knows it
I'm pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses
I feel like I'm dying, just want you to notice
Somehow the grave has captured me
Show me the man I used to be
Just when I feel my breath is running out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
'Cause you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
You are my rescue
I'm swimming to safety, but even with my best
If I don't see that rope soon, this might be my last breath
Somehow the grave has captured me
Show me the man I used to be
Just when I feel my breath is running out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
'Cause you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
Don't let me drown
Can you hear me
'Cause I am
Crawling out
I'm underground
Won't you pull me out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
Because you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
You are my rescue
Yeah, you are my rescue
Yeah, you are my rescue
I'm pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses
I feel like I'm dying, just want you to notice
I feel like I'm drowning, but nobody knows it
I'm pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses
I feel like I'm dying, just want you to notice
Somehow the grave has captured me
Show me the man I used to be
Just when I feel my breath is running out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
'Cause you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
You are my rescue
I'm swimming to safety, but even with my best
If I don't see that rope soon, this might be my last breath
Somehow the grave has captured me
Show me the man I used to be
Just when I feel my breath is running out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
'Cause you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
Don't let me drown
Can you hear me
'Cause I am
Crawling out
I'm underground
Won't you pull me out
The earth moves and you find me, alive but unworthy
Broken and empty, but you don't care
Because you are my rapture, you are my savior
When all my hope is gone, I reach for you
You are my rescue
You are my rescue
Yeah, you are my rescue
Yeah, you are my rescue
I'm pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses
I feel like I'm dying, just want you to notice
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And you people kill me..find every excuse why this isn't a christian song. All the lyrics clearly show how this is a song about God. "Rapture", "savior", just the song in its entirety. Naive.....
Although, I would agree that it is indeed about God.<br /> I think Seabird would agree, music is beautiful for many reasons, but the main reason is that you can take their lyrics anyway you want.<br /> Don't judge people just because they interpret a song differently than you.<br /> Ya dig?