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"
can you tell us the place where
the elders chew the sky soft?
and the place where love is like
a perfectly quilled arrow
flowing from bows of pure willow
and under (and under)
the thundering roll of ghost buffalo
(the thundering roll of ghost buffalo)
oh can't you hear
the world's heart breaking?
for it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
the fork tongue'ed people
and yes, it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
the fork tongue'ed people
cause' it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like bitter spirits and sweet wine
like two tongues at one time
at one time
so pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
and pour em' all for the hauntings
the hauntings, the hauntings
and pour em' all for the hauntings
the hauntings, the hauntings
and pour em' all for the hauntings
and cool down for the hauntings
and harden for the hauntings
and now granite-soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and now granite-soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and if my greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandma
could find them
she would put all of their poisoned
all of their poisened, poisened teeth in a medicine bag
in her medicine bag
she'd make a graph of our death
beat, pulse, murmur, quiet,
pulse, murmur, quiet
like hiding pheasants in the tall grass
now there's faces in the rocks
and they're coming on strong
faces in the rocks with medicine tongues
faces in the rocks feels like a million to one
woman and man in the moon
with a cradle born son
oh braided round close til' all warmth is gone
goOoOoOoOoone
so here take these blankets
here take these blankets
here take these blankets
they're woven from the hair of the dead
the hair from your sisters
hair from your brothers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters
the hair from your lovers
hair from your fathers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters
and we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye
and we, we stood by you
like a mama bear
shot with her cub's at her side
and we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye.
the elders chew the sky soft?
and the place where love is like
a perfectly quilled arrow
flowing from bows of pure willow
and under (and under)
the thundering roll of ghost buffalo
(the thundering roll of ghost buffalo)
oh can't you hear
the world's heart breaking?
for it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
the fork tongue'ed people
and yes, it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
the fork tongue'ed people
cause' it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like bitter spirits and sweet wine
like two tongues at one time
at one time
so pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
and pour em' all for the hauntings
the hauntings, the hauntings
and pour em' all for the hauntings
the hauntings, the hauntings
and pour em' all for the hauntings
and cool down for the hauntings
and harden for the hauntings
and now granite-soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and now granite-soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and if my greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandma
could find them
she would put all of their poisoned
all of their poisened, poisened teeth in a medicine bag
in her medicine bag
she'd make a graph of our death
beat, pulse, murmur, quiet,
pulse, murmur, quiet
like hiding pheasants in the tall grass
now there's faces in the rocks
and they're coming on strong
faces in the rocks with medicine tongues
faces in the rocks feels like a million to one
woman and man in the moon
with a cradle born son
oh braided round close til' all warmth is gone
goOoOoOoOoone
so here take these blankets
here take these blankets
here take these blankets
they're woven from the hair of the dead
the hair from your sisters
hair from your brothers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters
the hair from your lovers
hair from your fathers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters
and we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye
and we, we stood by you
like a mama bear
shot with her cub's at her side
and we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye.
Lyrics submitted by lady-c
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