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"
We are
I've come apart and you made me
Float like
A pretty box of your evil
So tired
So easy I
Bleed out
What the fuck were you thinking
We are
Gonna fall if you lead us
Nowhere
No wasted time
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
We are
Let me stop for a second
Held heart
Only beats in the evening
Low tide
Watching for flight
I tell you
To cut it out if you make me
You know why
The slowest spark is a breather
How high
How will you decide
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
So low
You keep stalling
Can you not see why?
Say, say, say
Love was
Say, say, say
That you see cry
A simple call seems right
And I know why
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I've come apart and you made me
Float like
A pretty box of your evil
So tired
So easy I
Bleed out
What the fuck were you thinking
We are
Gonna fall if you lead us
Nowhere
No wasted time
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
We are
Let me stop for a second
Held heart
Only beats in the evening
Low tide
Watching for flight
I tell you
To cut it out if you make me
You know why
The slowest spark is a breather
How high
How will you decide
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
So low
You keep stalling
Can you not see why?
Say, say, say
Love was
Say, say, say
That you see cry
A simple call seems right
And I know why
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
We Sink Lyrics as written by Lauren Eve Mayberry Iain Andrew Cook
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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listened to this song about a million times, never really thought deeply about the lyrics, perhaps I'm slow on the uptake with this one.
But it hit me recently- 'if we sink// we lift our love"- to me means means that there love exists only when they fall away from each other. I like the visual affect of 'sink' vs 'lift' and I've interpret litrally in my head, the people are broken/sunken but the love is only ever more exhaulted. Sometimes the best thing you can do for each other is to leave each other behind, allow each other to self-distruct and fall into our bad habits, do your worst. I relate it to that age old concept of love as being this mystical outside force that exists outside of the people it brings together. Obviously not all love works out in reality, it has the power to lift you with it or leave you behind. either way, the love doesn't stop existing.
On a deeper level, it makes me think of the ancients who made the distinguishment between 'earthly love' and the highest most exhaulted form of love. They believed that there was a higher experience of love that humans, by virtue of existing in the sinful/flawed earthily world, were not predisposed to. They believed in varying degrees of love and that through the highest forms of love humans could transcend their flawed earthly state, tap into something other wordly. However, the highest, purest form of love was truly believed to be something of the Gods and only accessed after death.
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