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"
When the whites of your eyes come through
You'll see something new
With your body and mine restored
It's good to see you back home
When the life in your eyes wants black
Things return
You've come back
With your body and mine restored
It's good to see you once more
Turning black tables
And you're turning black tables
And you're making your head whirl
Making your head whirl
And you're turning black tables
And you're turning black tables
And you're making your head whirl
Making your head whirl
You'll see something new
With your body and mine restored
It's good to see you back home
When the life in your eyes wants black
Things return
You've come back
With your body and mine restored
It's good to see you once more
Turning black tables
And you're turning black tables
And you're making your head whirl
Making your head whirl
And you're turning black tables
And you're turning black tables
And you're making your head whirl
Making your head whirl
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Black Tables Lyrics as written by Jesse Michael Tabish
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I agree with Imaye83. Someone who's had trouble/problems are coming back. I think "turning black tables" means leaving bad memroies behind (turn away bad memories/experience). The part where he sings "when the white of your eyes come through, it good to see some thing new", he means that when you look at a hard/difficult sitiuation with a bright, positive view , life will be much better, and you'll see new things.
This explanation also match with "When life in your eyes once black", a person who was struggling with his life, but has gotten better.
Who this person could be is a difficult question, but with my point of view, he could maybe be an ex-drug addict who's got clean, and have to deal with real life again, trying to forget the past. He could also be a solider, who comes back from war, and also have to deal with the problems.
This is what I think.