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 if I had the time to solve the mystery of your crime you know I would,
If I had to shape the form of your mechanical design you know I could,
Well I've been up and down the lanes to lose the memory of your name and sword taken from the stone,
put in the lake but I have mended up my heart and I have nothing more than bones to break,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind,
If I had the hand to take the blood out of the sand to make it dry,
And if I knew the birth and all the secrets of the earth I won't ask why,
Well I've been in and out of windows just,
to try to find a doorway,
I've broken off the mud that is weight upon my shoes but I've,
mended up my heart and I have nothing more than time to lose,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind,
If I could look within the endless tears upon your skin would I go blind,
If I could carve your face upon an unfamiliar place would I be kind,
I've seen visions of a ghost that stands upon a ragged sleeve,
Of all my faded dreams that I have broken at the seams but I,
mended up my heart and I have nothing more than sorrow on the breeze,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind (8x's)
If I had to shape the form of your mechanical design you know I could,
Well I've been up and down the lanes to lose the memory of your name and sword taken from the stone,
put in the lake but I have mended up my heart and I have nothing more than bones to break,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind,
If I had the hand to take the blood out of the sand to make it dry,
And if I knew the birth and all the secrets of the earth I won't ask why,
Well I've been in and out of windows just,
to try to find a doorway,
I've broken off the mud that is weight upon my shoes but I've,
mended up my heart and I have nothing more than time to lose,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind,
If I could look within the endless tears upon your skin would I go blind,
If I could carve your face upon an unfamiliar place would I be kind,
I've seen visions of a ghost that stands upon a ragged sleeve,
Of all my faded dreams that I have broken at the seams but I,
mended up my heart and I have nothing more than sorrow on the breeze,
But I said I do believe in all the endless roads you weave,
you may climb,
you may fall,
you could spend your lifetime on the wall,
I don't mind (8x's)
Lyrics submitted by lassiecewis
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Marcus's lyrics are genius, he's up there with Bob Dylan and Tom Waits to me. An absolute poet.
By the way I'm not sure that these lyrics are correct because sometimes it's a bit hard to understand so different interpretations would be greatly appreciated :)
i think these are the right lyrics.<br />
As a very general analysis, i think this song is about him deciding that he's not going to get so wrapped up in the girl that he loves as he was before.
Love it, whatever it's about. Lyrical genius.