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"
Flying so high, trying to remember
How many cigarettes did I bring along?
When I get down, I'll jump in a taxi cab
Driving through London town
To cry you a song
It's been a long time
I'm still shaking my wings
Well, I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring
Closing my dream inside this paper bag
Thought I saw angels
But I could've been wrong
Searching my case
Can't find what they're looking for
Waving me through
To cry you a song
It's been a long time
Still shaking my wings
Well I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring
Lights in the street
Peeping through curtains drawn
Rattling the safety chain taking too long
The smile in your eyes was never so sweet before
Came down from the skies
To cry you a song
How many cigarettes did I bring along?
When I get down, I'll jump in a taxi cab
Driving through London town
To cry you a song
It's been a long time
I'm still shaking my wings
Well, I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring
Closing my dream inside this paper bag
Thought I saw angels
But I could've been wrong
Searching my case
Can't find what they're looking for
Waving me through
To cry you a song
It's been a long time
Still shaking my wings
Well I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring
Lights in the street
Peeping through curtains drawn
Rattling the safety chain taking too long
The smile in your eyes was never so sweet before
Came down from the skies
To cry you a song
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I agree with Dan 0311, in that he has been touring and is coming home to his "sweeiie", in London. He is glad to be hiome. He will serenade her with a song he wrote on his travels; he has missed her and wishes to tell her many things that have passed since they last saw each other.
There is another theme inside this, however. He has smuggled some marijuana from wherever it is that he was travelling ....some foreign country, perhaps.
He obviously has also partaken of the marijuana himself, either during the flight or at some time just prior to the flight, and is paranoid at Heathrow when the customs officers are searching his suitcase (or guitar case, perhaps). Luckily they do not find anything because instead of putting the weed in his luggage, he carries it on his person in the clothing he is wearing. (this was back in the days before customs employed "dope-sniffing canines" at the airports, of course - wasn't it great back then!)
Anyway, he is very glad to be home where he will soon get to smoke some dope, relax, and sing to her - but he is still experiencing some residual paranoia from having evaded police, security personnel, and customs agents, etc. along the way.
His "sweetie" is expecting him when he finally gets home. He sees her "peeping out the window". (She must know that he is bringing home a stash of weed that they will soon be able to enjoy together....but she watching the street cautiously).
As he waits at the at the front door, for her to open the door, he is impatient and wants to get inside and off the street ASAP!
And from the look on her face at the end of the song, it is evident that soon after he has safely arrived, indeed they have enjoyed a smoke or two...LOL!
-sirdon