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"
Before electric light,
You paddled through the soup of darkness as a crocodile,
Cherry picking in the river,
I would leave crisp note footprints at the bankside
Watch it closely you will see it begin to move
Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
In every wonder what you are
I've blurted everything I know just for a piece of it
Flash frozen, patch worked and fallow
I sprung up in hearts and arrow superhighways
Watch it closely you will see it begin to move
Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
Do what you feel just how you like
Nobody has to know
Nobody has to know
Do what you feel just how you like
Nobody has to know
Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch,
What we got to loose
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
Do it for England
Do it for love
Do it for us
Do it for goodness sake
Do it for all the times
We wished we had
Do what you want, just how you like
Nobody has to know
do what you want, just how you like
Nobody has to know.
You paddled through the soup of darkness as a crocodile,
Cherry picking in the river,
I would leave crisp note footprints at the bankside
Watch it closely you will see it begin to move
Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
In every wonder what you are
I've blurted everything I know just for a piece of it
Flash frozen, patch worked and fallow
I sprung up in hearts and arrow superhighways
Watch it closely you will see it begin to move
Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
Do what you feel just how you like
Nobody has to know
Nobody has to know
Do what you feel just how you like
Nobody has to know
Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch,
What we got to loose
While we're here, let's see what happens
What we got, got, got to loose (what we got to loose)
While we're tidal and flexed on a full moon
It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
Do it for England
Do it for love
Do it for us
Do it for goodness sake
Do it for all the times
We wished we had
Do what you want, just how you like
Nobody has to know
do what you want, just how you like
Nobody has to know.
Lyrics submitted by bekkiboo46
Tidal Lyrics as written by Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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my take: this is about a friend who she'd like to be involved with.
first verse: they flirt around a bit, kind of feeling their way around. i imagine a clumsy crocodile waddling around in the dark and trying to figure out what to make of the "crisp note footprints".
second verse: she feels like she's made a fool of herself by blurting out all kinds of silly things to get his attention, but she still feels like she's falling hard for him...i know pretty much exactly how springing "up in hearts and arrow superhighways" feels. :)
what a great song. fantastic beat, fun melody and really evocative lyrics. very accurately describes the feeling of newness and fun when you first start falling for someone.
i love immi! <3