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"
Come in close now, it's time to tell a story
Long ago and so many years before we
Ever were, ever dreamed we even could be
There was her and her very first heartbeat
All alone in the corner of the night sky
Spiral bones of a supernova starlight
Fell in love with another burning bright she
Dreamed of a way to ignite she said,
Tonight
Come on, come on collide
Break me to pieces, I
I think you're just like heaven why
Come on, come on collide
Let's see what a fire feels like
I bet it's just like heaven
Just like heaven
Just like heaven
Such a shame
nowhere near, even the near mist light years away
From the hope of being sun-kissed anchored home
in her interstellar sea but, poor lonely Cassiopeia
So she sighs and she burns with desperation
Learns to cry over love of constellations
Then the spark from a star shooting too close
They both smiled what a day to explode, she said
Tonight
Come on, come on collide
Break me to pieces, I
I think you're just like heaven why
Come on, come on collide
Let's see what a fire feels like
I bet it's just like heaven
Just like heaven
Just like heaven
Long ago in a sky built before us
A supernova grew up to be stardust
Long ago and so many years before we
Ever were, ever dreamed we even could be
There was her and her very first heartbeat
All alone in the corner of the night sky
Spiral bones of a supernova starlight
Fell in love with another burning bright she
Dreamed of a way to ignite she said,
Tonight
Come on, come on collide
Break me to pieces, I
I think you're just like heaven why
Come on, come on collide
Let's see what a fire feels like
I bet it's just like heaven
Just like heaven
Just like heaven
Such a shame
nowhere near, even the near mist light years away
From the hope of being sun-kissed anchored home
in her interstellar sea but, poor lonely Cassiopeia
So she sighs and she burns with desperation
Learns to cry over love of constellations
Then the spark from a star shooting too close
They both smiled what a day to explode, she said
Tonight
Come on, come on collide
Break me to pieces, I
I think you're just like heaven why
Come on, come on collide
Let's see what a fire feels like
I bet it's just like heaven
Just like heaven
Just like heaven
Long ago in a sky built before us
A supernova grew up to be stardust
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Sara the story-teller is clearer here than ever, and the delivery she has used is spot on. Her story of a girl named Cassiopeia begins, in the manner of Star Wars, “a long, long time ago.” And, not surprisingly, it is “in a galaxy far, far away”–only if the reader interjects with the knowledge of real-life constellation, Cassiopeia (which may also explain the light-years-ago age of the story). Cassiopeia, of a starlight with potential to create supernovas (whether in a literal or abstract sense is joyfully ambiguous), has noticed another bright star far, far away. She wishes heartfully that they would meet and start something (note: violence and destruction, the stuff of supernovas, are intriguingly rich with figures about progress). Her fantasies please her, so the accompanying desperation and tragedies of reality lead to inner turmoil. And then, she meets someone. Who, you ask? It’s not revealed, and this allows for several interpretations. Is it the heartbreaker or someone new? Is it real or part of her imagination? The truth is up in the air–or if you will, up in space.
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