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"
Eternity will smile
Eternity will smile
Eternity will smile
On me
I never said I was honest
I never said I was honest
But I am true
And I am true
We all see something different
We all recall something different
When we watch the parade
Go marching through
So be kind to all of your neighbors
Be kind to all of your neighbors
‘Cuz they’re just like you
They’re just like you
And you’re nothing special
Unless they are too
All my time I’ve walked a filed line
I've held a vacant sign upon my eyelids
All my time, oh Lord, I’ve been so blind
But now I see the light peek through my doorjamb
But there's no
Hallelujah, it will be gone soon, yeah
It will be gone soon
It’s just an empty room
This is our darkest cave
We’ll never see the day
But slowly make our way up to the mouth
And you’re gonna piss and moan
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
Piss and moan
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
In your home
Eternity will smile
Eternity will smile
On me
I never said I was honest
I never said I was honest
But I am true
And I am true
We all see something different
We all recall something different
When we watch the parade
Go marching through
So be kind to all of your neighbors
Be kind to all of your neighbors
‘Cuz they’re just like you
They’re just like you
And you’re nothing special
Unless they are too
All my time I’ve walked a filed line
I've held a vacant sign upon my eyelids
All my time, oh Lord, I’ve been so blind
But now I see the light peek through my doorjamb
But there's no
Hallelujah, it will be gone soon, yeah
It will be gone soon
It’s just an empty room
This is our darkest cave
We’ll never see the day
But slowly make our way up to the mouth
And you’re gonna piss and moan
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
Piss and moan
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
You let the devil in your home
In your home
Lyrics submitted by roartheskies, edited by stephmh
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It seems to me that the song is about an awakening of a person seeing life beyond himself. The part about the cave sounds like he was playing off of the allegory of Plato's cave. Coming into the light, the real world, opening your eyes to see beyond yourself and your own desires.
He realizes that everyone out there in the world has a unique perspective and that in order to be respected, you must give respect to others and their opinions, because they are only as as special as yours. You can whine and complain, but your problems are what you make of them.
Nice concept, great instruments in the song.
@Steph01924 5 years later....this song makes more and more sense. The music has a primitive tone from the rhythm to the actual sound of being in room jamming into a tapedeck recorder. It starts at the end, which is interesting....Eternity smiles is the entire point...only if you reckon with you're own demons, with your own mistakes....basically reckon with yourself to better understand the world around and then...move on. The instrumental is pretty cool and accents the tone of the message...there is a march for the rules and laws of the song...then he drops on the Universe the we are nothing special and the song breaks...then the song uses the same march to deliver another message of greater meaning...and then there's that Trumpet...solo, unrefined, in a room all by itself...but owning it...I'm probably off...but what the hell...it's a great song, and fitting for the time.