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"
Far away not long ago
When the chuch bells rang and life moved slow
people prayed for hope they prayed for rain
A woman she stood tall and proud with a heavy walk
voice so loud her
body aching she ignored the pain
Like she did the years before
Right outside her farmhouse door
Lite a match to burn it all again
The wind it blowed it didn't stop
The flame kept burning beyond the crop
It was rutless, took all it could claim
Chorus:
Wild fire she danced the night away
Took her by the hand there was nothing she could say
Wild fire brought her to her knees
When the dust finally settled there was nothing but the breeze
Tears ran down her somber face
All the things she can't replace
Answered prayers never brought the rain
Boy had yet become a man
She hoped one day he'd take the land
Black burnt soil is what remained
[chorus]
She looked upon her tragedies
Field of ashes wrigly leafless trees
Empire crumbled down to ruins
In her heart she held a blame
Never saw herself the same
Wouldn't answer to her name
[chorus x 2]
When the chuch bells rang and life moved slow
people prayed for hope they prayed for rain
A woman she stood tall and proud with a heavy walk
voice so loud her
body aching she ignored the pain
Like she did the years before
Right outside her farmhouse door
Lite a match to burn it all again
The wind it blowed it didn't stop
The flame kept burning beyond the crop
It was rutless, took all it could claim
Chorus:
Wild fire she danced the night away
Took her by the hand there was nothing she could say
Wild fire brought her to her knees
When the dust finally settled there was nothing but the breeze
Tears ran down her somber face
All the things she can't replace
Answered prayers never brought the rain
Boy had yet become a man
She hoped one day he'd take the land
Black burnt soil is what remained
[chorus]
She looked upon her tragedies
Field of ashes wrigly leafless trees
Empire crumbled down to ruins
In her heart she held a blame
Never saw herself the same
Wouldn't answer to her name
[chorus x 2]
Lyrics submitted by gba
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