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 feel asleep last night
On a roundabout
A cloud of wings
From the glass around you
Light reflects
The sun on your skin
When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
On a crowded train
Quietly violent
When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
Quietly violent
I fell asleep last night
On the underground
The air there breaks
With the light around you
The darkness breaks
Whenever you walk in
When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
Quietly violent
Quietly violent
On a roundabout
A cloud of wings
From the glass around you
Light reflects
The sun on your skin
When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
On a crowded train
Quietly violent
When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
Quietly violent
I fell asleep last night
On the underground
The air there breaks
With the light around you
The darkness breaks
Whenever you walk in
When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
Quietly violent
Quietly violent
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I think this means that he's in love again with an old lover.
"I fell asleep last night On a roundabout" This means he calmed down and stopped where he had to make a choice.
"A cloud of wings" Angel wings. Maybe his dream or cushion.
"From the glass around you" Shattered glass from the past arguments.
"Light reflects The sun on your skin" Now he's not in love any more he realises how beautiful she is. The shattered glass of the past reflects the light onto her.
"When you touch me Bullets in conversation On a crowded train Quietly violent"
When he touches her he's remembered by the past arguments. The "bullets" in conversations stand for harmful words. Or he regrets the past and he's reminded by her. He's not angry but sad, making him quiet but he feels torn up by it.
"When you touch me Planets in sweet collision Quietly violent"
When he's touched it feels like a two planets collide. It has a great impact on him. It feels very special. Hence the "sweet" collision. The feeling he has inside are very strong (violent-like), but not bad. So quiet. Either that, or like I stated above.
"I fell asleep last night On the underground" Same thing. He fell asleep. But this time, in a very busy place, where people could see him. People can see he decided to love her. He is not ashamed to show it.
"The air there breaks With the light around you The darkness breaks Whenever you walk in"
The air breaks either means that the wind stops, time slows or that he suddenly stops breathing (by her). And the light around her causes darkness to break no matter where she goes. So she's a very beautiful / good person, taking peoples' breaths away.
"When you touch me Planets in sweet collision When you touch me Bullets in conversation Quietly violent Quietly violent "
Same as before! Just my personal "meaning". I love this song and it has beautiful lyrics.
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