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"
No heaven will embrace you
No harbour keeps you safe
Your comrades will desert you
No tower reaches heaven
No fortress stands to last
Your desires makes you weak
No science will be mastered
No truth is absolute
Your children won't lament you
No wisdom can be trusted
No glory lasts forever
Our wishes won't be granted
Like torches in the aeon flow
Even suns flicker and die
Forgotten as the ages grow
Eternity is not for you
No harbour keeps you safe
Your comrades will desert you
No tower reaches heaven
No fortress stands to last
Your desires makes you weak
No science will be mastered
No truth is absolute
Your children won't lament you
No wisdom can be trusted
No glory lasts forever
Our wishes won't be granted
Like torches in the aeon flow
Even suns flicker and die
Forgotten as the ages grow
Eternity is not for you
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Oh wow after 10 years someone comments :) - thx guys, i guess we all have our options on the "meaning" of this...
@sokorny - i agree with your comment "our lives by relation are minuscule in time!" and totally agree .. But i thi k the song is trying to say that and more ...
@jaughn1150 - I hear what your saying and your correct , that is part of what the song is saying ...
But I stand strong that covenant is taking about religion here ... I'll quote some lyrics and you decide ....
"no heaven will embrace you" <this is the opening lyric of the song, i think it sets the tone >
"no tower reaches heaven" <clearly a reference to the tower of babel - found first in the writings of the Sumerians then later in the bybel>
"eternity is not for you" <only religions promise eternity, BUT like suns (that have life spans of millions of years, even they die ... so what does that say about the promise of heaven/eternal life...>
"even suns flicker and die"
<this part really spoke to me, at the time there was a strong pagan influence in my life, and this seems to take a stab at sun based religions , Wicca / Egyptian ... Some even say that most religions started of as sun based , this is not my theory but one that is well documented ...>
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Ps: I don't mean to offend views or believes ... just my 2 cents ...
do what thou wilt !
@Random8 @sokorny No offense taken. Im not disagreeing with you. Our opinions are not mutually exclusive. The sun is a battery. I was never taught that Gods made the Sun for life. I am taught that there is but 1 God. I dont see God as a figure creating life in his workshop or w.e. I see God as the energy in all things. The force behind the bang if u will. Now I have heard of Egypptians referencing a Sun God or w.e.but I believe the word itself has lost its meaning, Father. Like many other things we all argue about, products of tainted info.