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"
When we finally came back
When we came back home
Saw how they had left it
They'd left it all alone
When we finally saw it
Saw what they had done
There wasn't much of anything
Not much of anything at all (x2)
...
Messengers came to your town
You'd run and hide
You'd watch them die
You never heard what they would say
I wonder why, I wonder why
Carry a thousand silver bowls
back from our homes (x2)
Oh well I'm the one they love
Well I don't know, I don't know
Carry a thousand silver bowls
A thousand years have come and gone
But my clothes still look the same
This is our last night in a tent
They are your socks stuck in the sand
They cut your feet
They cut your hands
But you never ceased to show
You give me more than I could hope
Asking for stories full of holes
But I guess they're good to know
The light passed through the
I'll pass through a million lies
I saw somethings still shine the same
The other end of a thousand nights
And all of this to try find a bed
I never layed my mind on it
When we came back home
Saw how they had left it
They'd left it all alone
When we finally saw it
Saw what they had done
There wasn't much of anything
Not much of anything at all (x2)
...
Messengers came to your town
You'd run and hide
You'd watch them die
You never heard what they would say
I wonder why, I wonder why
Carry a thousand silver bowls
back from our homes (x2)
Oh well I'm the one they love
Well I don't know, I don't know
Carry a thousand silver bowls
A thousand years have come and gone
But my clothes still look the same
This is our last night in a tent
They are your socks stuck in the sand
They cut your feet
They cut your hands
But you never ceased to show
You give me more than I could hope
Asking for stories full of holes
But I guess they're good to know
The light passed through the
I'll pass through a million lies
I saw somethings still shine the same
The other end of a thousand nights
And all of this to try find a bed
I never layed my mind on it
Lyrics submitted by RareIndieMusic
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