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"
So we rose, too close;
overexposed, the wide whites of eyes, we dried...
to keep safe all the keepsakes that we hide.
In and out
of season, warm armed
sleeves do harm the skin;
We waste on lost wishes we cannot win.
So you pinched rose
the parts that you hold,
in swollen palms;
The charms, in blood, warm a frozen bell's alarm.
On, undone,
the song rings wrong...
with pleas for keys, I turn to hear you sing a false reprise.
Calls, calls, echoes fall; an anniversary away...
Calls, calls, echoes fall; an anniversary away...
Calls, calls, echoes stall... an anniversary away;
and save all these hours that we wait.
To start murmured hearts,
and amplify the marks;
From questions left to scar...
the patterns I depart.
For beds better made, in a city to be named,
by the one with the face, I tried to escape.
Our lost wishes know we cannot chase.
One played calm; a song strings along
the pleas for keys; I turn to hear you sing a false reprise.
Of errors made, in short; sprints to safer shores,
far from troubled lure... of the head I adore.
To save sealed mouths, in letters I misspelled;
What signs can only tell, take care if it helps.
Start murmured hearts, and amplify the marks
from questions left to scar, the patterns I depart.
For beds better made, in a city to be named
by the one with the face; I tried to escape...
I tried to escape.
overexposed, the wide whites of eyes, we dried...
to keep safe all the keepsakes that we hide.
In and out
of season, warm armed
sleeves do harm the skin;
We waste on lost wishes we cannot win.
So you pinched rose
the parts that you hold,
in swollen palms;
The charms, in blood, warm a frozen bell's alarm.
On, undone,
the song rings wrong...
with pleas for keys, I turn to hear you sing a false reprise.
Calls, calls, echoes fall; an anniversary away...
Calls, calls, echoes fall; an anniversary away...
Calls, calls, echoes stall... an anniversary away;
and save all these hours that we wait.
To start murmured hearts,
and amplify the marks;
From questions left to scar...
the patterns I depart.
For beds better made, in a city to be named,
by the one with the face, I tried to escape.
Our lost wishes know we cannot chase.
One played calm; a song strings along
the pleas for keys; I turn to hear you sing a false reprise.
Of errors made, in short; sprints to safer shores,
far from troubled lure... of the head I adore.
To save sealed mouths, in letters I misspelled;
What signs can only tell, take care if it helps.
Start murmured hearts, and amplify the marks
from questions left to scar, the patterns I depart.
For beds better made, in a city to be named
by the one with the face; I tried to escape...
I tried to escape.
Lyrics submitted by nutmegpeachpays
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