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"
Outside the rain begins
And it may never end
So cry no more, on the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea
Forevermore, forevermore
Close your eyes and ami
And you can be with me
'Neath the waves, through the caves of hours
Gone, forgotten now
We're all alone, we're all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Learn how to pretend
Once a story's told
It can't help but grow old
Roses do, lovers too, so cast
Your seasons to the wind
And hold me dear, oh, hold me dear
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
All's forgotten now
We're all alone, all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Owe it to the wind, my love, hold me dear
All's forgotten now, my love
We're all alone
And it may never end
So cry no more, on the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea
Forevermore, forevermore
Close your eyes and ami
And you can be with me
'Neath the waves, through the caves of hours
Gone, forgotten now
We're all alone, we're all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Learn how to pretend
Once a story's told
It can't help but grow old
Roses do, lovers too, so cast
Your seasons to the wind
And hold me dear, oh, hold me dear
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
All's forgotten now
We're all alone, all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Owe it to the wind, my love, hold me dear
All's forgotten now, my love
We're all alone
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This song, like many, can hold different meanings depending on what the audience brings to the table, so to speak. I first heard this song in 1977, a year after my young son died and I immediately took those words as words of comfort to help a loved one find a way to move on: "Outside the rain begins And it may never end So cry no more on the shore a dream Will take us out to sea For ever more.. for ever more" (The pain of loss seems unending but there is relief to be found in dreams that take us out to sea, the sea symbolizing a smooth peaceful flowing venue away from land - the reality that binds us to pain)
"Close your eyes and dream And you can be with me 'Neath the waves through the caves of ours Long forgotten now We're all alone..we're all alone" (In dreams our lost ones can be with us in 'caves of ours' meaning a private place where only you two can be together as you were as you were in times past)
"Close the window calm the light And it will be all right No need to bother now Let it out let it all begin Learn how to pretend" (the harsh screaming reality that is daily life - calm the light, it will help ease the loss...dont be afraid to 'go there' because relief will be found in learning how to pretend as you relive your happy times. The No need to bother now, nothing can be changed, so let it out - grieve your loss and let the healing begin)
"Once a storys told It can't help but grow old Roses do lovers too so cast Your seasons to the wind And hold me dear..oh hold me dear" (The loss has happened, we can dwell on that and immerse ourselves in the hurt but it's life's way...things begin and things end. Its the oldest truth that exists...So cast your seasons to the wind - accept that truth and hold me "dear" - as in keep loving me and being with me in that special place in dreams)
"All's forgotten now We're all alone..all alone" (nothing else matters except this special place - Our place where Only we can be together...dreams)
I love your interpretation and I am so sorry for your loss. This song has meant different things to me with different situations. In one night it represented my relationship and how the outside stressors might be changing the dynamics of our love, but if we let past expectations go we can move on to something that might be better.<br /> <br /> Then later that night I heard it again and it told the story of a loved one's suicide, and helped me find closure in her decision.