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"
Je suis née à l'envers
Tout au bout de la mer
Dans un lotus ouvert
Aux bras de Shiva
Loin de chez toi
J'ai grandi, j'ai rêvé
Aux pays des orchidées
Aux masques rouges et dorés
Qui marquent mon âme
Aussi fort que tes charmes
Et j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'entraînent tes pas
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
Loin de chez moi
J'ai appris ton espace
Les saisons froides qui passent
Nos cœurs à la surface
Au nord de mes lois
Plus au nord que tu crois
Je veux t'emmener là
Marcher la tête en bas
Saluer Ganesha
Sur les cendres chaudes
De mes rêves émeraude
Et j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'emmène ta voix
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
J'ai lâché la rose des vents pour tes signes sur moi
Et je sens ses épines sur moi
Et si je suis fidèle
Aux flèches des hirondelles
Aux elfes qui m'ensorcellent
Au nom de ta voix
Où que tu sois
J'appellerai toujours
La croix du sud au secours
Quand je serai à mon tour
La rose des vents, qui guide les amants
Si j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'emmène ta voix
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
Je serai la rose des vents qui parfume
Tes jours et tes lunes
Chez moi, chez moi
Tout au bout de la mer
Dans un lotus ouvert
Aux bras de Shiva
Loin de chez toi
J'ai grandi, j'ai rêvé
Aux pays des orchidées
Aux masques rouges et dorés
Qui marquent mon âme
Aussi fort que tes charmes
Et j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'entraînent tes pas
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
Loin de chez moi
J'ai appris ton espace
Les saisons froides qui passent
Nos cœurs à la surface
Au nord de mes lois
Plus au nord que tu crois
Je veux t'emmener là
Marcher la tête en bas
Saluer Ganesha
Sur les cendres chaudes
De mes rêves émeraude
Et j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'emmène ta voix
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
J'ai lâché la rose des vents pour tes signes sur moi
Et je sens ses épines sur moi
Et si je suis fidèle
Aux flèches des hirondelles
Aux elfes qui m'ensorcellent
Au nom de ta voix
Où que tu sois
J'appellerai toujours
La croix du sud au secours
Quand je serai à mon tour
La rose des vents, qui guide les amants
Si j'ai suivi le chant de mes veines
Aussi loin que m'emmène ta voix
J'ai tourné la rose des vents vers tes plaines
Si fort que j'en saigne parfois
Je serai la rose des vents qui parfume
Tes jours et tes lunes
Chez moi, chez moi
Lyrics submitted by Lamia
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