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"
Bows and flows
Of angel hair
And ice cream
Castles in the air
And feather canyons
Everywhere
I've looked
At clouds that way
But now
They only
Block the sun
They rain and snow
On everyone
So many things
I would have done
But clouds
Got in my way
I've looked
At clouds
From both sides now
From up and down
And still somehow
It's cloud illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Clouds at all
Moons and Junes
And ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way
You feel
As every fairy tale
Comes real
I've looked
At love that way
But now
It's just
Another show
You leave 'em
Laughing when you go
And if you care
Don't let them know
Don't give
Yourself away
I've looked at love
From both sides now
From give and take
And still somehow
It's love's illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Love at all
Tears and fears
And feeling proud
To say "I love you"
Right out loud
Dreams and schemes
And circus crowds
I've looked
At life that way
But now old friends
Are acting strange
They shake their heads
They say
I've changed
Something's lost
But something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life
From both sides now
From win and lose
And still somehow
It's life's illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Life at all
Of angel hair
And ice cream
Castles in the air
And feather canyons
Everywhere
I've looked
At clouds that way
But now
They only
Block the sun
They rain and snow
On everyone
So many things
I would have done
But clouds
Got in my way
I've looked
At clouds
From both sides now
From up and down
And still somehow
It's cloud illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Clouds at all
Moons and Junes
And ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way
You feel
As every fairy tale
Comes real
I've looked
At love that way
But now
It's just
Another show
You leave 'em
Laughing when you go
And if you care
Don't let them know
Don't give
Yourself away
I've looked at love
From both sides now
From give and take
And still somehow
It's love's illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Love at all
Tears and fears
And feeling proud
To say "I love you"
Right out loud
Dreams and schemes
And circus crowds
I've looked
At life that way
But now old friends
Are acting strange
They shake their heads
They say
I've changed
Something's lost
But something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life
From both sides now
From win and lose
And still somehow
It's life's illusions
I recall
I really don't know
Life at all
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Both Sides Now Lyrics as written by Joni Mitchell
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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