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"
This is the time
We waited too long
And I am wondering
Were I belong
We have lust
Were out of control
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
I tell you why
The worlds left alone
Now's the time
To make right what's wrong
We have lust
Were out of control
If we stray can we hear nature's call
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
A renewed paradise, still alive
This is the time
The sky and the sea
We speak the burdens
We planted the seed
We have lust
Were out of control
If we stray can we hear nature's call
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
All that we've sacrificed
In the end has it's price
A renewed paradise, still alive in your eyes
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
All that we've sacrificed
In the end has it's price
A renewed paradise, still alive in your eyes
It's still alive in our eyes
We waited too long
And I am wondering
Were I belong
We have lust
Were out of control
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
I tell you why
The worlds left alone
Now's the time
To make right what's wrong
We have lust
Were out of control
If we stray can we hear nature's call
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
A renewed paradise, still alive
This is the time
The sky and the sea
We speak the burdens
We planted the seed
We have lust
Were out of control
If we stray can we hear nature's call
When we fail
Nature speaks to us all
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
All that we've sacrificed
In the end has it's price
A renewed paradise, still alive in your eyes
This is the time
So what's the world to be
Just a luxury, a temporary sea
But have we got when it's gone away?
And we need to come to see
What the earth should be
A sanctuary free
All that we've sacrificed
In the end has it's price
A renewed paradise, still alive in your eyes
It's still alive in our eyes
Lyrics submitted by EpicNight13
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