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"
As the fireflies buzzed around him
Like so many dancing stars
God told all the angels from Jupiter to Mars
There's a basket in the river
Bearing something dear to me
Embarking on a journey to fulfill his destiny
A pretty maiden on the banks stood with open arms
God put it in her heart
To keep that baby safe from harm
She said "Don't matter where you come from
Now you belong to me"
She was wise enough to know
It was simply meant to be
God was there when the firefly lied
At the angel's side
And the maiden's heart as she played her part
As she scooped him up, headed into town
That's the way it all went down
On the way to Holy Ground
Milk and honey bound
One night that little prince was tossed
Into a stormy prophet's dream
And it took a while for him to understand
What he had seen
When that boy became a man
Those dreams they did transpire
He wandered into the desert
Where he talked to a bush of fire
And a voice said
"I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there with you
Deliver my people out of Pharaoh's chains
And I will see you through"
God was there in the prophet's dream
And the sparkled stream that flowed from the rock
In the burning bush, on the mountain top
All across that desert sand
Fingerprints of the master's hand
He cried out 'Pharaoh I'm headin' back to town'
That's the way it all went down
Milk and honey bound
Yeah, I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey bound
I've come to lead my people out
I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey, milk and honey
Like so many dancing stars
God told all the angels from Jupiter to Mars
There's a basket in the river
Bearing something dear to me
Embarking on a journey to fulfill his destiny
A pretty maiden on the banks stood with open arms
God put it in her heart
To keep that baby safe from harm
She said "Don't matter where you come from
Now you belong to me"
She was wise enough to know
It was simply meant to be
God was there when the firefly lied
At the angel's side
And the maiden's heart as she played her part
As she scooped him up, headed into town
That's the way it all went down
On the way to Holy Ground
Milk and honey bound
One night that little prince was tossed
Into a stormy prophet's dream
And it took a while for him to understand
What he had seen
When that boy became a man
Those dreams they did transpire
He wandered into the desert
Where he talked to a bush of fire
And a voice said
"I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there with you
Deliver my people out of Pharaoh's chains
And I will see you through"
God was there in the prophet's dream
And the sparkled stream that flowed from the rock
In the burning bush, on the mountain top
All across that desert sand
Fingerprints of the master's hand
He cried out 'Pharaoh I'm headin' back to town'
That's the way it all went down
Milk and honey bound
Yeah, I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey bound
I've come to lead my people out
I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey, milk and honey
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