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 can't sleep
I've lost the urge to sing
No one's left a friend
The cost of ill pretend
Where'd you go?
I need you now
I said oh ,oh
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
I still dream
But what should I believe
Frozen shapes to bend
Impossible sets in
Lost again
Still alone
I said oh, oh
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
I can't wait [Repeat: x7]
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
I've lost the urge to sing
No one's left a friend
The cost of ill pretend
Where'd you go?
I need you now
I said oh ,oh
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
I still dream
But what should I believe
Frozen shapes to bend
Impossible sets in
Lost again
Still alone
I said oh, oh
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
I can't wait [Repeat: x7]
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then
Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
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Frozen Oceans Lyrics as written by Stephen Petree Jeremy Dawson
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The song, the way I see it, represents two lovers who have parted ways. Because the female vocalist is singing most of the song, you can assume that she is the lover who was scorned from the separation. From this song, it feels like she was maybe separated from him [the male; through death or maybe unfortunate events] and longs to be with him again.
'I can't sleep I've lost the urge to sing No one's left a friend The cost of ill pretend Where'd you go? I need you now I said ooh-ooh'
These lyrics impose that because of her loss of her love that she has given up on life, or is just generally discouraged. Also because of this, it causes her to realize who her real friends are.
'Ten thousand miles apart A frozen ocean joins our hearts I can't wait to meet you when The frozen waves meet ocean floors You'll be standing on the shore I can't wait to meet you then'
This part of the song can be interpreted many ways. The way I see it, she is singing of the time when she'll be able to see her lover again, and her excitement when she finally sees him once more. This kind of strongly suggests he's maybe dead--these lyrics imply that there's a huge amount of distance between them, but 'love' or the 'frozen ocean' connects them together even through death.
The rest of the song kind of follows suit with this interpretation, what with the girl being alone and sad, and then the chorus again and the repeat of 'I Can't Wait'.
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