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"
[Intro]
Oh first time we came in together
Guess we the ones
[Verse 1]
Feeling cooler than the April breeze
As we blow like the summer leaves
Girl I'm just hanging around
And I'll come back down
When you choose to come visit me now
The crazy thing about my treehouse
It's always me bugging me out
It's all of the beautiful sounds
That keeps my mouth quiet
Cause me I'm being so
Loud
[Chorus]
One glad morning
I'll be waiting
With my lighter, to blaze, blaze
Till that evening
You come over
And let me take you away
Yeah
[Interlude]
I (?) the four pops
Singing songs to the trees
So I'm up in the city
Smoke that sweet Virginia breeze
[Verse 2]
Girl it's looking so nice out
Take your baby, we can step out
And give all the city a stroll
And we can talk about the places where we want to go
Cause baby I got big dreams
Hollywood and the movie screens
Billions of fans all for me
With cars passing by and me hearing them play my CD
[Chorus]
One glad morning
You'll be waiting
With your lighter to blaze (to light up)
Till that evening
I'll come over
And let you take me away
Yeah
[Verse 3]
Fuck girl let's get so high that it casts on to the moon
When we get back to daylight we can just keep our mood
All I wish is you'll still be here when I get off tour
When I get back we'll get higher than ever before
[Bridge]
Real love, feel love, taste love, smoke love
Real love, real love, feel love, feel love
Taste love, taste love, smoke love, smoke love
Real love, feel love, taste love, smoke love
Real love, real love, feel love, feel love
Taste love, taste love, smoke love, smoke love
[Outro]
Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh
Oh first time we came in together
Guess we the ones
[Verse 1]
Feeling cooler than the April breeze
As we blow like the summer leaves
Girl I'm just hanging around
And I'll come back down
When you choose to come visit me now
The crazy thing about my treehouse
It's always me bugging me out
It's all of the beautiful sounds
That keeps my mouth quiet
Cause me I'm being so
Loud
[Chorus]
One glad morning
I'll be waiting
With my lighter, to blaze, blaze
Till that evening
You come over
And let me take you away
Yeah
[Interlude]
I (?) the four pops
Singing songs to the trees
So I'm up in the city
Smoke that sweet Virginia breeze
[Verse 2]
Girl it's looking so nice out
Take your baby, we can step out
And give all the city a stroll
And we can talk about the places where we want to go
Cause baby I got big dreams
Hollywood and the movie screens
Billions of fans all for me
With cars passing by and me hearing them play my CD
[Chorus]
One glad morning
You'll be waiting
With your lighter to blaze (to light up)
Till that evening
I'll come over
And let you take me away
Yeah
[Verse 3]
Fuck girl let's get so high that it casts on to the moon
When we get back to daylight we can just keep our mood
All I wish is you'll still be here when I get off tour
When I get back we'll get higher than ever before
[Bridge]
Real love, feel love, taste love, smoke love
Real love, real love, feel love, feel love
Taste love, taste love, smoke love, smoke love
Real love, feel love, taste love, smoke love
Real love, real love, feel love, feel love
Taste love, taste love, smoke love, smoke love
[Outro]
Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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