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"
Your lips are meadows,
Your tongue is wine.
Your laughter's liquid,
But your body's pine.
You love all sailors,
But hate the beach.
You say come touch me,
But your always out of reach.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
Your arms are lovely,
Yellow and rose.
Your back's a meadow,
Covered in snow.
Your thighs are thistles,
And hot house grapes.
You breathe your sweet breath,
And have me wait.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
I turned the lights out,
I cleaned the sheets.
You changed the station,
Turned up the heat.
And now your sailing,
Upon your chair.
You got me tangled up,
Inside with your beautiful black hair.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
Your tongue is wine.
Your laughter's liquid,
But your body's pine.
You love all sailors,
But hate the beach.
You say come touch me,
But your always out of reach.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
Your arms are lovely,
Yellow and rose.
Your back's a meadow,
Covered in snow.
Your thighs are thistles,
And hot house grapes.
You breathe your sweet breath,
And have me wait.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
I turned the lights out,
I cleaned the sheets.
You changed the station,
Turned up the heat.
And now your sailing,
Upon your chair.
You got me tangled up,
Inside with your beautiful black hair.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
In the dark you tell me of the flowers,
That only blooms in the violet hour.
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Um, the meaning seems pretty clear to me. The flower that blooms in the violet hour is certain part of a woman's body. Re-read the lyrics with this in mind and it all makes perfect sense.
Doh, I submitted before I was ready. . . <br /> <br /> "Your lips are nettles,<br /> Your tongue is wine."<br /> <br /> Pretty self-explanatory if you are familiar with the "location" in question.<br /> <br /> "Your laughter's liquid,<br /> But your body's pine."<br /> <br /> Shuttering and stiffening of the body or possibly contrasting the secretions with the hardness of the clit.<br /> <br /> "You love all sailors,<br /> But hate the beach."<br /> <br /> Sailors are seamen, aren't they? Don't know what the beach refers to though. Any thoughts?<br /> <br /> "In the dark you tell me of a flower,<br /> that only blooms in the violet hour."<br /> <br /> A reference to sex happening when the sun goes down. Blooming referring to the opening of the legs.<br /> <br /> "Your arms are lovely,<br /> Yellow and rose.<br /> You back's a meadow,<br /> Covered in snow.<br /> Your thighs are thistles,<br /> And hot-house grapes<br /> You breathe your sweet breathe,<br /> And have me waiting."<br /> <br /> Again referring to the look, feel, and smell of the "area" in question.<br /> <br /> "And now your sitting,<br /> Upon your chair.<br /> You got me tangled up,<br /> Inside your beautiful black hair."<br /> <br /> Sitting on a chair is a very convenient way of giving and receiving a certain sexual act and most women have black hair down there.<br /> <br />