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"
Lying on my side
Knowing of thirst is how I've died
Choke on my tongue
Lying on the night
Beneath the dunes is where I lie block the sun
Trying to ignite
Some sort of passion from inside
To overcome
This feeling of desertion
Can't be worse then having any words
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you, don't turn me loose even when I turn my back
The Lion on his side,
Was it the lying or his pride which brought him down
Once the king of beast but now they feast
On the thoughts beneath his faking crown.
Trying to decide was it the lying or the pride which brought him down.
To be alone to be de-crowned believe me I know all about it now
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you
Don't ever turn me loose, even when I turn my back
I never told you then that I'd be easy to love
Supposedly I'm a man but I feel like a CUB
I wondered if the planes flying farther away
Not ever knowing I would never come back the same
As my lungs gave way, I swear I felt something burst,
It's been 13 days and I'm dying of thirst.
For the birds who prey I pray that someone else will get here first.
If I'm not alone, I'll be alright
Just take these bones and bring them back to life.
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you
Don't ever turn me loose,
So I'll ask one thing, Just one thing,
Of you,
Don't ever turn me loose
Don't ever turn me loose
Don't ever turn me loose
Even when I turn my back
Knowing of thirst is how I've died
Choke on my tongue
Lying on the night
Beneath the dunes is where I lie block the sun
Trying to ignite
Some sort of passion from inside
To overcome
This feeling of desertion
Can't be worse then having any words
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you, don't turn me loose even when I turn my back
The Lion on his side,
Was it the lying or his pride which brought him down
Once the king of beast but now they feast
On the thoughts beneath his faking crown.
Trying to decide was it the lying or the pride which brought him down.
To be alone to be de-crowned believe me I know all about it now
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you
Don't ever turn me loose, even when I turn my back
I never told you then that I'd be easy to love
Supposedly I'm a man but I feel like a CUB
I wondered if the planes flying farther away
Not ever knowing I would never come back the same
As my lungs gave way, I swear I felt something burst,
It's been 13 days and I'm dying of thirst.
For the birds who prey I pray that someone else will get here first.
If I'm not alone, I'll be alright
Just take these bones and bring them back to life.
So I'll ask one thing, just one thing
Of you
Don't ever turn me loose,
So I'll ask one thing, Just one thing,
Of you,
Don't ever turn me loose
Don't ever turn me loose
Don't ever turn me loose
Even when I turn my back
Lyrics submitted by Junai0, edited by xxxJayxxx, ben.iselin
Sahara Lyrics as written by Matthew Thiessen
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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