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"
Today I noticed hills of gold I had not seen before,
Today I saw a line against the sky I have not seen before.
Holdin' on in powerlines I asked, for birds to keep my thought in place
And above my feed they resonate, sound muffled but immediate.
And oh how the day does blow the way, ever faster.
Tonight I see a dark sad man I have not seen before,
Tonight I see two sad lost girls I have not seen before,
and below the blackest sky I asked, for them to wander as I might
COULD NOT DISTINGUISH
And oh how the day does blow the way, ever faster.
Ever faster
Today I saw a line against the sky I have not seen before.
Holdin' on in powerlines I asked, for birds to keep my thought in place
And above my feed they resonate, sound muffled but immediate.
And oh how the day does blow the way, ever faster.
Tonight I see a dark sad man I have not seen before,
Tonight I see two sad lost girls I have not seen before,
and below the blackest sky I asked, for them to wander as I might
COULD NOT DISTINGUISH
And oh how the day does blow the way, ever faster.
Ever faster
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I think it says "pull" as opposed to "blow" and I'm still debating whether it's blackest or blackened. I think this is what the last verse says though. Love this song one of my favorites from the album.
And I think also in the first verse it's:<br /> <br /> "Holding on to power lines I asked..."<br /> <br /> I think he's watching the world from the power line and is commenting on how time passes and he can observe how we "wander." Then again I'm just probably making it all up. Still love the song. Haha.