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"
Staring blindly through blizzard
Chasing after your restless heart
Mind is buzzing like Helicopter
Cutting quickly through the dark
Smoke is pouring from my windows
And I'm reaching out my hand
Hoping someone's at my fingertip
That can help me understand
That we've all got the sun to follow
That we've all got the sun to follow-ow-ow
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Yelling for the sun as the water rises
Feeling like smoke, filling up your eyes
Swinging at a ghost, go and lock that door
Leave that wreckage, let it wash ashore
Go save yourself up, it's a hell of a ride
Feel your heart racing in the middle of the night
Step out of your mind into the wild, wild, wild, wild
That we've all got the sun to follow
That we've all got the sun to follow-ow-ow
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
We're all fighting to make something for ourselves
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Chasing after your restless heart
Mind is buzzing like Helicopter
Cutting quickly through the dark
Smoke is pouring from my windows
And I'm reaching out my hand
Hoping someone's at my fingertip
That can help me understand
That we've all got the sun to follow
That we've all got the sun to follow-ow-ow
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Yelling for the sun as the water rises
Feeling like smoke, filling up your eyes
Swinging at a ghost, go and lock that door
Leave that wreckage, let it wash ashore
Go save yourself up, it's a hell of a ride
Feel your heart racing in the middle of the night
Step out of your mind into the wild, wild, wild, wild
That we've all got the sun to follow
That we've all got the sun to follow-ow-ow
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
We're all fighting to make something for ourselves
Hold on, hold on
The stars are bound to change
Hold on, hold on
Wait for another day
Hold on, hold on
The future's not that far away-ay
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Oh whoa whoa, oh whoa whoa
Lyrics submitted by poisonwine
Stars (Hold On) Lyrics as written by Ernest Clark Marcos Palacios
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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