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"
Passing shadows
When love is strong
The ruby cross
The rose of the world
Constant flow
The deep heart
Fat man's daughter
Christian mother
Future life
Glories of the sacred
In God's country
Man from nowhere
Dear Friends
Forgive and forget
For better for worse
In God's country
The turn of the tide
Passing shadows
When love is strong
The ruby cross
The rose of the world
Best foot forward
Hearts of gold
Dear Friends
Mysterious doorway
Future life
For better for worse
Life's blessings
In heaven we know
Our own glories
Glories of the sacred
In the wonder days
The wonder gifts
The wonder story
Christian mother
Fat man's daughter
Passing shadows
Shadows lifted
Forgive and forget
For better for worse
In God's country
Under cedars and stars
Under cedars and stars
Under cedars and stars
The future life
And wonder days
When love is strong
The ruby cross
The rose of the world
Constant flow
The deep heart
Fat man's daughter
Christian mother
Future life
Glories of the sacred
In God's country
Man from nowhere
Dear Friends
Forgive and forget
For better for worse
In God's country
The turn of the tide
Passing shadows
When love is strong
The ruby cross
The rose of the world
Best foot forward
Hearts of gold
Dear Friends
Mysterious doorway
Future life
For better for worse
Life's blessings
In heaven we know
Our own glories
Glories of the sacred
In the wonder days
The wonder gifts
The wonder story
Christian mother
Fat man's daughter
Passing shadows
Shadows lifted
Forgive and forget
For better for worse
In God's country
Under cedars and stars
Under cedars and stars
Under cedars and stars
The future life
And wonder days
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