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"
And his face shown like the sun
Rejoice, rejoice the tide has come
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
When the skin bound to your limbs traces back to home
The sand pulls you back in working through your skull
The sand pulls you back in working through your skull
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
And I will pray and climb to the highest of highs
To get back to the ground again
And oh God to be home again
With back drop hills and florescent lit skies
Burning images into the backs of your eyes
Into the backs of your eyes
Into the backs of your
We're all singled by our desires
That love can fix but life builds walls
We're all singled by our desires
That love can fix but life builds walls
Rejoice, rejoice the tide has come
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
Take us away to a better place
When the skin bound to your limbs traces back to home
The sand pulls you back in working through your skull
The sand pulls you back in working through your skull
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
Tide has come to take us all
Tide has come to take us
And I will pray and climb to the highest of highs
To get back to the ground again
And oh God to be home again
With back drop hills and florescent lit skies
Burning images into the backs of your eyes
Into the backs of your eyes
Into the backs of your
We're all singled by our desires
That love can fix but life builds walls
We're all singled by our desires
That love can fix but life builds walls
Lyrics submitted by sakeofmotionxxx
The Tide Lyrics as written by Nitin Sawhney
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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"And his face shown like the sun Rejoice, rejoice the tide has come."
"Tide has come to take us all Tide has come to take us." -this means that the end has arrived, and nobody can live on Earth (as was once knew) anymore. Everybody will journey to Jesus into Heaven, or they will go to Hell, regretably.
"Take us away to a better place." -He is extremely excited to enter Heaven, perhaps jaded by his Earthly life.
"When the skin bound to your limbs traces back to home, the sand pulls you back in working through your skull." -I am not entirely sure, but this could mean that once he leaves his mortal body, he will inherit a new and spiritual body in Heaven. He may also be saying that his mind will be enlightened with knowledge, and it will be purified.
"And I will pray and climb to the highest of highs To get back to the ground again And oh God to be home again With back drop hills and florescent lit skies Burning images into the backs of your eyes Into the backs of your eyes." -He is saying that, since he is in heaven, he will be limitlessly able, with a new and divine body. Also, he will be with the LORD for all eternity, happy, and without any types of suffering. He is talking about how incomprehendably wonderful and beautiful Heaven will be, once the Rapture is complete, and Jesus leads him into the Kingdom of God.
"We're all singled by our desires That love can fix but life builds walls We're all singled by our desires That love can fix but life builds walls." -at the end of the song, he seems to begin discussing something kind of irrelevant to the subject of the song. He is saying that Earthly desires can "build walls" or set limits, and we can end up hurting ourselves. He goes on to saying that love, which is a referrence to Godly love (Christians believe that God's love is the most pure, beautiful, and perfect love out of all types of love), can fix all things, and knock down all obstacles. Everyone needs God, yet continue to reject him.
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