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"
Light the fire in this castle
And watch it burn into a glow
By the river fear of quite sincere
There's a draw bridge life support.
And there's a plank we'll have to crawl upon
But dare not look below
Where the water scene is crystal clean
And the clouds are raining snow
So hush hush baby
There's a lot of other ways to choke
We're in the freak show now
And we're dealing with a mind of its own
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
I can't man,
This is quicksand alone
So I ask you through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay
We're a submarine submerging
We're simply smiling at the earth
We're sending roses to the loved ones
Who had a hand in our rebirth
But still another day I'll cling to you
For faint directions home
Where we all will sit with open arms
To try to block the rocks we've thrown
So hush hush baby
There's a lot of other ways to choke
We're in the freak show now
And we're dealing with a mind of its own
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
I can't man,
This is quicksand alone
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
Don't leave my side at all
I ask you through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay
Yeah, stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Please, why don't you stay with me
You're my voice of a friend
So why don't you stay with me, with me
And watch it burn into a glow
By the river fear of quite sincere
There's a draw bridge life support.
And there's a plank we'll have to crawl upon
But dare not look below
Where the water scene is crystal clean
And the clouds are raining snow
So hush hush baby
There's a lot of other ways to choke
We're in the freak show now
And we're dealing with a mind of its own
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
I can't man,
This is quicksand alone
So I ask you through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay
We're a submarine submerging
We're simply smiling at the earth
We're sending roses to the loved ones
Who had a hand in our rebirth
But still another day I'll cling to you
For faint directions home
Where we all will sit with open arms
To try to block the rocks we've thrown
So hush hush baby
There's a lot of other ways to choke
We're in the freak show now
And we're dealing with a mind of its own
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
I can't man,
This is quicksand alone
When too many worlds collide
I'd like to think it would be good if we talked
I ask you to not leave my side
Don't leave my side at all
I ask you through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay
Yeah, stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Through the voice of a friend
Why don't you stay with me
Please, why don't you stay with me
You're my voice of a friend
So why don't you stay with me, with me
Lyrics submitted by petereeda12
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Voice of a Friend: "We got dropped. I wrote to the band basically begging them not to quit."
@marqupton I have the book too, it's amazing and yes I can confirm that this is absolutely true. About asking the band to not quit.