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"
Back into those things you wish to undo
the crown for your tomb
not a day goes by or the nights for you
then dance in the rain
cause them town's all will miss your face
when we'll toast for the pain
then we'll taste of the halo of shame
and if you'll pass that number
waiting for the summer
so that you can not rest
curious perfections
those haunting life lessons
oh that you can not rest
You'll pass that number
the crown for your tomb
not a day goes by or the nights for you
then dance in the rain
cause them town's all will miss your face
when we'll toast for the pain
then we'll taste of the halo of shame
and if you'll pass that number
waiting for the summer
so that you can not rest
curious perfections
those haunting life lessons
oh that you can not rest
You'll pass that number
Lyrics submitted by ilikejose
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I think should be
"curious perfections those haunting life lessons oh that you can not rest"
I really like this track.
beautiful song, and you're definitely right with "curious perfections" and "haunting life lessons". so great when he sings 'curious'.!
yeah. really nice song
yea. i musta been far too in love with it at the time to listen to the words properly...seriously that was way back in may and it's still my favorite woods song. favorite song ever.
im not sure about what it means anymore than i did 8 months ago. i guess no-one else is either...
This is a badly written understanding of it. im feeling pretty sad at the moment so im probably going to think it's about death. which i actually think it is, but it's probably not. (but i really do think it is)
i think the first line, whoever wrote this is talking about themselves, how they wish to undo the past and they mention the grave of someone they loved thinking about how time passes or doesn't pass for them any more and asking them to do the things they used to do because everyone misses them and when they drink for the pain they'll feel even more ashamed for trying to forget. the 'halo of shame' is a
...and i guess like they did in life, that person is waiting for it to be summer so they can do the things they used to do when they were alive but the perfections of life/death come back and can never go away
and then he asks them to 'pass the number' wanting and believing that person to still be around to call up or that passing the number means that person wants to be a ghost too
strangely sweet and comforting and spooky and bitter and perfect all at the same time
O.o well that was well-written..
and why does everybody forget about bone tapper?<br /> for i am russian i don't understand it but like it so much. hey you there, help me please