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"
Well, I met the seventh son
He came for everyone
The day he heard the lighting in the field
I heard him clear his throat
A fork within the road
That night the Tallahatchie took the wheel
I've been throwing knives
To see just where they land
Now my world is in your hands
Send in the congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were
The voice upon the stage
Is the heart inside a cage
And they're singing like a bluebird in the round
There's mystery in this wood
And ghosts within these roots
That are tangled deep beneath this southern ground
I've been going through life
Making foolish plans
Now my world is in your hands
Send in the congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were
And you need blind faith
No false hope
Do you have blind faith?
No false hope
Where is your blind faith?
No false hope
Open your eyes, open your eyes
Step into the light
Open your eyes, step into the light
The sound becomes
Congregation
A congregation
A congregation, yeah
And they're singing like a bluebird in the round
He came for everyone
The day he heard the lighting in the field
I heard him clear his throat
A fork within the road
That night the Tallahatchie took the wheel
I've been throwing knives
To see just where they land
Now my world is in your hands
Send in the congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were
The voice upon the stage
Is the heart inside a cage
And they're singing like a bluebird in the round
There's mystery in this wood
And ghosts within these roots
That are tangled deep beneath this southern ground
I've been going through life
Making foolish plans
Now my world is in your hands
Send in the congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were
And you need blind faith
No false hope
Do you have blind faith?
No false hope
Where is your blind faith?
No false hope
Open your eyes, open your eyes
Step into the light
Open your eyes, step into the light
The sound becomes
Congregation
A congregation
A congregation, yeah
And they're singing like a bluebird in the round
Lyrics submitted by intothegrinder
Congregation Lyrics as written by David Grohl Chris Shiflett
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave
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@moonlight1974 Where in the whole song's symbols and passages is Kurt Cobain??? I think that eternally bonding Dave Grohl to his past with Nirvana and Kurt Cobain is an overused cliché. There's more in Dave, as a songwriter than his former history with Kurt, yes, it surely is a fundamental part of his emotional baggage and maybe his darkest place; but Grohl has given us beautiful pieces of music which have nothing to do with his Nirvana experience.<br /> <br /> That being said, Sonic Highways is a mysterious album, and the general atmosphere feels kind of mystique to me. I am particularly fascinated by these lines in this song:<br /> <br /> "There’s mystery in this wood<br /> And ghosts within these roots<br /> That are tangled deep beneath this southern ground..."<br /> <br /> Grohl tends to create storylines from nothing by observing particular facts of life or places he has been, and the reference to the Talahatchie River must definitely refer to some southern scenario. <br /> <br /> I really like to think this song is about one of these cults or sects that thrive nowadays, some sort of initiation rite "open your eyes, step in the light...", "you need blind faith, no false hope". And definitely the leader of this cult "The voice upon the stage is a heart inside a cage".<br /> Perhaps the song is about a new member overwhelmed by the strange and newly found experience of believing in something "and they're singing like a bluebird in the round", most of any cult or religious organization has choirs.<br /> This most probably fictional character is idealizing the heart of the preacher, the elements of their temple, the words they speak, everything that's unknown to him.<br /> <br /> The only element of the song I can't seem to figure out though is the "Jukebox Generation".