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"
I still dream of the mountains,
where I used to be a king
King of all outer realms, how I wish to return ...
"Welcome back my son, I have waited for a long time
Waited for the king to return, I have something to show you
Upon the highest mountain, way up by the horizon
Lies an ancient path, the path of the gods ..."
I've climbed the mountains high
And walked among the clouds
I've reached the outer realms
Seen past the fields of wildgrown flowers
"Seek the opening of sanguine painted clouds
Carried gently upon caressing winds
There by the boundaries of seldom broken lines
Lies the way ..."
These sanguine clouds I saw
Appear at heaven's shore
Swept by the woken wind
Stray in the garden of tranquillity
"See through the many eyes of the dragonfly
Hear the flowers bloom in early spring
And see the lines of life untouched by time
Upon the way ..."
Faerie choirs sing
And gently flap their wings
And by this creek so small
Gathered slowly, drinking unicorns
"Stray pilgrim, god to be
Stray wanderer, 'all these realms' belong to thee"
Small creatures coming near
Then turn to disappear
All while the faeries sing
Ode to waters, ode to winds
"Stray pilgrim, god to be
Stray wanderer, 'all these realms' belong to thee"
The path of gods ...
where I used to be a king
King of all outer realms, how I wish to return ...
"Welcome back my son, I have waited for a long time
Waited for the king to return, I have something to show you
Upon the highest mountain, way up by the horizon
Lies an ancient path, the path of the gods ..."
I've climbed the mountains high
And walked among the clouds
I've reached the outer realms
Seen past the fields of wildgrown flowers
"Seek the opening of sanguine painted clouds
Carried gently upon caressing winds
There by the boundaries of seldom broken lines
Lies the way ..."
These sanguine clouds I saw
Appear at heaven's shore
Swept by the woken wind
Stray in the garden of tranquillity
"See through the many eyes of the dragonfly
Hear the flowers bloom in early spring
And see the lines of life untouched by time
Upon the way ..."
Faerie choirs sing
And gently flap their wings
And by this creek so small
Gathered slowly, drinking unicorns
"Stray pilgrim, god to be
Stray wanderer, 'all these realms' belong to thee"
Small creatures coming near
Then turn to disappear
All while the faeries sing
Ode to waters, ode to winds
"Stray pilgrim, god to be
Stray wanderer, 'all these realms' belong to thee"
The path of gods ...
Lyrics submitted by v@caman
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I think this song has to do something with indians..i dont know why, but this is the first thing that came to my mind when i read the lyrics and listened to the song."I still dream of the mountains, where I used to be a king King of all outer realms, how I wish to return ... "i think that an indian says that, because the white men came and took his land, where he was the ruler...oh, and not only the lyrics, but the music at the beginning is superb.a song worth checking out!
first of all, this is a second part of an soome epic history "...I still dream of the mountains, where I used to be a king" started from song "Upon The Highest Mountain"
second, thihs song always reminds me the "Lord of the Ring" movie scenes like these tinyurl.com/3yh7j2v bwps.org/images/News/2008HolidayParty/Mountains-NewZealand-MGoodman.jpg