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"
The sand was warm
When I opened my eyes
For the first time this year
The water was blue
When I came to
And my memories just as clear
The nights were long
When summers did fall
And our sentences expired
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Feeling for each other’s hand
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When we’re together
We were alive
At least once or twice
While every one else slept in sin
The days were dark
Lanterns sparked
By the pale glow of your skin
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Where we met our beginnings and our end
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When she’s with me
And we so far from the sun
In each other’s arm
We’ll find our place
When she’s with me
The films that flutter and flower
Feel new to our eyes
Its easy to love like we’ve lost
With these thoughts buzzing by
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
And she’s with me
When I opened my eyes
For the first time this year
The water was blue
When I came to
And my memories just as clear
The nights were long
When summers did fall
And our sentences expired
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Feeling for each other’s hand
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When we’re together
We were alive
At least once or twice
While every one else slept in sin
The days were dark
Lanterns sparked
By the pale glow of your skin
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Where we met our beginnings and our end
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When she’s with me
And we so far from the sun
In each other’s arm
We’ll find our place
When she’s with me
The films that flutter and flower
Feel new to our eyes
Its easy to love like we’ve lost
With these thoughts buzzing by
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
And she’s with me
Lyrics submitted by mindgeist
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