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"
So I keep watch
And you keep breaking
Breaking formation to become
Someone else
And your eyes become corridors
Where I wander with a candle
Calling out to you
and you only hide
Because you know I'll find you
you say you just want to feel
The way you used to feel
The way you should feel
And I wander through
The lost city of you
and you only hide because you know I'll find you
And you keep breaking
Breaking formation to become
Someone else
And your eyes become corridors
Where I wander with a candle
Calling out to you
and you only hide
Because you know I'll find you
you say you just want to feel
The way you used to feel
The way you should feel
And I wander through
The lost city of you
and you only hide because you know I'll find you
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i love this song it has sooo many meanings and it is very deep something for kate are great and i would love to kwon what others think this song is about
This song relates to the games people play with one another. People go into hiding in the hope someone will seek them out so they feel loved and needed. Everyone has done it at one stage or another.
This song is just about being loved. if you've ever felt like your alone and need someone to be there for you but you just dont know who to turn to...youv'e always got this song."I wander through the last city of you" the last city being your inner soul? the place were only close people can ever get to..
this song is played on neighbours too much, like the entire pete murray album
whenever i see this song live, i can feel such emotion coming from paul but, it seems like a whole different level
I think it's maybe about being insecure about themselves or the relationship they are in, not that that is a necesarilly a good thing. But one person needing their partner to tell them they are loved, and testing them to see how genuine they are.
And I may be wrong, but i think the real lyrics are "the lost city of you" not "last", it just sounds like last. Makes much more sense that way anyway, and dempsey's not one for imperfection in writing!
to add to that, i love this song because it's somwhat different in style to his other songs. The other songs could be considered to be more metaphorical as apposed to this being simple. The song could even be about himself, and us finding him. Ironic considering the somwhat complexity of his lyrics.