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"
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
Now we're one soul
Reviving memories
To every blade of grass, the universal path
A primal energy
A creation is born, unsympathetic chords
Hearing Adam's murmur
A Sanskrit alphabet
Unholy apple tree
Seven flowers
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
holes in our trunks
I tap her to test
Harmony within
A merciful creation
Hearing Adam's murmur
A Sanskrit alphabet
Unholy apple tree
Seven flowers
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Blood to brain
And skin arrange
Now we're one soul
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
Now we're one soul
Reviving memories
To every blade of grass, the universal path
A primal energy
A creation is born, unsympathetic chords
Hearing Adam's murmur
A Sanskrit alphabet
Unholy apple tree
Seven flowers
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
holes in our trunks
I tap her to test
Harmony within
A merciful creation
Hearing Adam's murmur
A Sanskrit alphabet
Unholy apple tree
Seven flowers
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Throat to brain
And skin arrange
Feet to hip
Leaf to breast
Blood to brain
And skin arrange
Now we're one soul
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I actually sent Paul a email about this song because I wanted to 1. see how on point I was with my interpretation (It is a song dealing with the creation of man, and Astral Projection through meditation) and 2. Hear the truth, so with out further a due...
"Adam's Murmur is very much about what your describing, along with the chakras or "energy centers" in the body. Chakras in sanskrit are defined as "wheels". The teacher / author Carolyn Myss was a source of inspiration. Hope this helps a little!"
-Paul
It can be broken down really simply but still an exquisite piece of music
Feet to hip Leaf to breast [This is Naive to Breast] Throat to brain And skin arrange (creation of man from the ground up)
Reviving memories, to every blade of grass, the universal path A primal energy, a creation is born, unsympathetic �chords? [I believe this lyric is on sympathetic chords.]
(A journey through projection is began and takes the traveler back to the creation of man, the universal path is the path in which one follows to arrive at their destination when projecting and is also the path that every man must walk as a human being.)
Hearing Adam's murmur (Later in the song it is mentioned that he taps his heart and feels a hole in his chest, the murmur is a heart condition that would lend its self to sounding as if their is a hole in the heart or a missing piece.)
A sanskrit alphabet (The language mentioned in his email, tying the songs ideas/theme of Chakra and Hinduism to the more Christian story of creation, this also ties the beliefs of "one soul" to the song by merging the practices and beliefs of two separate religions.)
Unholy apple tree (reference to the story of creation and the source of man's distance from god, our initial sin)
Seven flowers (the seven chakra points of the body, and natural energy)
�holes in our trunks [I believe this is "a hole inside my chest"] I tap her to test? [and this I think is "I tap my heart to test"] Harmony within A merciful creation
(If I am correct about the lyrical change it could be making reference to the rib removed from Adam to make Eve, tapping his heart to test that his new mate is real and not a dream. She brings to him a harmony that he had previously not had and was a creation born of god's mercy, feeling Adam's need for companionship. OR... the hole is a heartache caused from the folly of man and detachment from god. He taps his heart to test that he is still alive and well after the pain of separating himself from God has hit him so hard Then he is put in a state of harmony upon realizing he is still whole. We are truly a merciful creation and even though we go against gods will he is still understanding of our choice because he gave us free will.)
Now we're one soul (we are all traveling on the same path as one collective humanity, one soul.)
at least that is what I got out of it.