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"
How could he know
This new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea
But pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
Was he the one causing pain
With his careless dreaming?
Been afraid
Always afraid
Of the things he's feeling
He could just be gone
He would just sail on
He'll just sail on
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
His days drift on
Inside his fog
It's thick and suffocating
This sinking life
Outside it's hell
Inside, intoxicating
Ship's run aground
Like his life
The water's much too shallow
He goes down
Down with his ship
Sinking in the shadows
Now a castaway
They've all gone away
All gone away
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me
Why can't I forgive me?
(Solo)
Set sail to sea
But pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
How could he know
This new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
This new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea
But pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
Was he the one causing pain
With his careless dreaming?
Been afraid
Always afraid
Of the things he's feeling
He could just be gone
He would just sail on
He'll just sail on
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
His days drift on
Inside his fog
It's thick and suffocating
This sinking life
Outside it's hell
Inside, intoxicating
Ship's run aground
Like his life
The water's much too shallow
He goes down
Down with his ship
Sinking in the shadows
Now a castaway
They've all gone away
All gone away
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me
Why can't I forgive me?
(Solo)
Set sail to sea
But pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
How could he know
This new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
How can I belong,
When I've got nowhere to go?
Shuffled streets of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
When my ship was made to drift
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
Lyrics submitted by slipvayne94bm
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cant belive im first to post comment. i think the songa about a man who cant forgive himmself How can I be lost? When my ship was made to drift And how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?