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"
I still remember the night, you tried to kiss me through the window
I tried to settle for the taste of touching glass over the sound of answering machines
Because, I love the way your voice, it says it's gonna get back to me someday
As I brace my knees you hold me down with your eyes
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
We'll swim in circles in the blue light
It's gonna be the best day of my life
And, oh my God, you'll never be as beautiful without me
Beauty needs an animal to breathe
Baby, you'll be all right as long as I'm not
So do that dance in the dark
Sharpen your teeth and bite as hard as you want
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
We'll swim in cirles in the blue light
And I just want to fade away into the sky under the sea
A million kisses underwater as we walk into the ocean (ocean)
Oh, no
And this is gonna be the best day (of my life)
A celebration of an ending
Come on!
And do you really trust your tongue or did you bury the taste?
And is this fantasy real or is all homemade?
And did you call me last night just cause you couldn't get laid?
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce the selfish machine
That's fuckin' right!
Do you think you're the only one? (Afraid)
Do you think you're the only one? (Afraid)
Do you think you're the only one afraid of this machine
Oh!
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
I'll be your breath if you can be mine
And I just wanna fade away into the sky under the sea
A million kisses underwater as we walk into the ocean
Waves
Oh, no
Oh, no
One, two, three
And do you see me at all under the tall waves?
And do you see me at all
I tried to settle for the taste of touching glass over the sound of answering machines
Because, I love the way your voice, it says it's gonna get back to me someday
As I brace my knees you hold me down with your eyes
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
We'll swim in circles in the blue light
It's gonna be the best day of my life
And, oh my God, you'll never be as beautiful without me
Beauty needs an animal to breathe
Baby, you'll be all right as long as I'm not
So do that dance in the dark
Sharpen your teeth and bite as hard as you want
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
We'll swim in cirles in the blue light
And I just want to fade away into the sky under the sea
A million kisses underwater as we walk into the ocean (ocean)
Oh, no
And this is gonna be the best day (of my life)
A celebration of an ending
Come on!
And do you really trust your tongue or did you bury the taste?
And is this fantasy real or is all homemade?
And did you call me last night just cause you couldn't get laid?
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce the selfish machine
That's fuckin' right!
Do you think you're the only one? (Afraid)
Do you think you're the only one? (Afraid)
Do you think you're the only one afraid of this machine
Oh!
And someday I'll drive, close both my eyes
I'll be your breath if you can be mine
And I just wanna fade away into the sky under the sea
A million kisses underwater as we walk into the ocean
Waves
Oh, no
Oh, no
One, two, three
And do you see me at all under the tall waves?
And do you see me at all
Lyrics submitted by JaySquared2, edited by 1208
The Sky Under the Sea Lyrics as written by Michael Fuentes Tom Denney
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