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"
Prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
HastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair-
Naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM
(who is of smiling face, bestower of all fortunes,
Whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear,
Who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones)
Puer natus est nobis,
Et filius datus est nobis
Cujus emperium super humerum
(For to us a child is born,
To us a son is given:
And the government will be upon his shoulder)
Some day you came
And I knew you were the one
You were the rain, you were the sun
But I needed both, cause I needed you
You were the one
I was dreaming of all my life
When it is dark you are my light
But don't forget
Who's always our guide
It is the child in us
HastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair-
Naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM
(who is of smiling face, bestower of all fortunes,
Whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear,
Who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones)
Puer natus est nobis,
Et filius datus est nobis
Cujus emperium super humerum
(For to us a child is born,
To us a son is given:
And the government will be upon his shoulder)
Some day you came
And I knew you were the one
You were the rain, you were the sun
But I needed both, cause I needed you
You were the one
I was dreaming of all my life
When it is dark you are my light
But don't forget
Who's always our guide
It is the child in us
Lyrics submitted by TheDirge, edited by robles_34, arindam794
The Child in Us Lyrics as written by Michael Cretu
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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The verses of this song are from the Bible! It’s about Lord Jesus Christ living in us. That’s the Enigma of this song.
@aziza10590 I was wondering why no one saw it this way. I think it’s a no brainer. Thanks
@aziza10590 I was wondering why no one saw it this way. I think it’s a no brainer. Thanks
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The first: I hope that the initial idea of Michael is to emphasize that the child in us lives throughout entire our Earth life-long. Yes, this is the call from inside, the childhood memories which are unfortunately still to understand. This is all about the child as a living spirit inside. On the other hand Michael gave us the phrases "The Universal Justice and the Eyes of Truth are always watching you..." What we can get from it? In my vision the deep meaning is that Universe is ought to watch over our inner world, to watch over child in us. We all have to remember that Everything in the Universe is already been, now exists and will always be. Ever. Since the time is comparatively soft and elastic the human would never realize how the Truth looks like. We all just have to chose our way from endless variety of outcomes. The second: This is the only song from the first time I have heard till now which pushes me dramatically to the Endless Sorrow and the Endless Joy at the same time. This feeling grows in every stage of the song: when the first Sanskrit starts, later, when flutes starts, finally when Cretu sings. What is it? I have been asking myself all these years... Thank you for reading.
@MerBen I can agree with you on this one. <br /> <br /> Everytime i listened to this song, there is just something in me that overflows my body with such calmness. as in like i have been lied to all along. that i have been made to believe I am something that i am not. That i have tied myself to the rolling of the world of which i do not know where it is going but i am right there in the midst of it. like my innocence has been taken away form and now i am lost trying to find out who am i. I believe the reason we are so attached to children is that, their innocence reminds us of our lost innocence.
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