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"
You told us that
We were too young
Now that night's closing in
And in the half light
We run
Lock us up safe
And hide the key
But the night tears us loose
And in the half light
We're free
Strange how the half light
Can make a place new
You can't recognize me
And I can't recognize you
We run through the streets
That we know so well
And the houses hide so much
We're in the half light
None of us can tell
They hide the ocean in a shell
Ocean in a shell
Our heads are just houses
Without enough windows
They say you hear human voices
But they only echo
They only echo
They only echo
Only echo
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
We were too young
Now that night's closing in
And in the half light
We run
Lock us up safe
And hide the key
But the night tears us loose
And in the half light
We're free
Strange how the half light
Can make a place new
You can't recognize me
And I can't recognize you
We run through the streets
That we know so well
And the houses hide so much
We're in the half light
None of us can tell
They hide the ocean in a shell
Ocean in a shell
Our heads are just houses
Without enough windows
They say you hear human voices
But they only echo
They only echo
They only echo
Only echo
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
Lyrics submitted by Rockstom, edited by Ryuhza, BIRDDUDE830, sonata0
Half Light I Lyrics as written by Regine Chassagne Jeremy Gara
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i think these are the correct lyrics:
You told us that we were too young now the night's closing in and in the half light, we were one
luck us up safe and hide the key but the night tears us loose and in the half light we're free
strange how the half light can make a place new you can't recognize me and I can't recognize you
we run through the streets that we know so well all the houses hide so much but in the half light none of us can tell they hide the ocean in a shell
the ocean in a shell
our heads are just houses without enough windows you say you hear human voices but they're only echoes
they're only echoes they're only echoes only echoes
we are not insane, we are on the streets we are not insane, we are on the streets
not 100% positive, since i was playing it by ear, but it's still better than copying incorrect lyrics off of wikilyrics cough i can't decided if it's "hide the ocean in a shell" or "had" because i can hear both, and make sense of both.
anyhow, the end of this song REALLY reminds me of something very sufjan stevens.
this whole album is a large movement, it's incredible- definitely about growing up and finding yourself, i think, and then finding yourself again (and again)
Pretty much.<br /> <br /> To me, it seems to be a major revisiting of the themes in "Antichrist Television Blues".<br /> It seems to be about growing old, changing, becoming jaded, and longing for the days of youth that you spent doing absolutely nothing, but living.<br /> <br /> As long winded and pretentious as that sounded.<br /> <br /> Very good album though, A++
i'm not sure it DID sound pretentious! very well put-- it's an amazing work of art, and they've clearly put a remarkable amount of effort into putting it all together so well.. i mean i can really feel it all, if that makes sense.