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"
Anderson/Squire/Howe/White/Sherwood/Khoroshev
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls' devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realized their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin
Only in the recent past
Seekers fought to realize
Skyward shone like beacons
A question of origin
Ten thousand millions flee
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace
As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Speak so fast to the prophets of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth
Ancient ones, they watch and listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life
I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into the secret
Of the home of your heart
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it
I have seen the dream
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one
It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life
Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls' devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realized their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin
Only in the recent past
Seekers fought to realize
Skyward shone like beacons
A question of origin
Ten thousand millions flee
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace
As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Speak so fast to the prophets of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth
Ancient ones, they watch and listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life
I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into the secret
Of the home of your heart
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it
I have seen the dream
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one
It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life
Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
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There possibly is a second meaning to this song, but this was the music used on the computer strategy game Homeworld and it does follow a lot of the main plot themes of the story. A tale of disaster and conflict and arriving home.
The race you play in the game explores space, breaks a covenant they didn't know existed, gets their planet destroyed, scours space for their ancester's homeworld, fights a vast, corrupt empire, meets other races in space and befriends (or defend against in some cases), then eventually they spawn a revolution on the corupt Empire's core, the player's ancester's homeworld, stolen thousands of years before.
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@Patupi Yes, this song was made for the game “Homeworld” by Sierra Studios, Anderson accept to make it for the similarities in the story and something he believed was a sympathetic story for him at least. The song is the best song on the album, lyrically, musically and in the composition side, even for a commercial made song with the classical yes style. The lyrics are based on the “Homeworld” backstory, which is impressively rich and complex for a typical game standard, this and for being technically and artistically groundbreaking is what made this game a genre changing and one of the best games ever made not even in the Strategy category but in general.
@Patupi Yes, this song was made for the game “Homeworld” by Sierra Studios, Anderson accept to make it for the similarities in the story and something he believed was a sympathetic story for him at least. The song is the best song on the album, lyrically, musically and in the composition side, even for a commercial made song with the classical yes style. The lyrics are based on the “Homeworld” backstory, which is impressively rich and complex for a typical game standard, this and for being technically and artistically groundbreaking is what made this game a genre changing and one of the best games ever made not even in the Strategy category but in general.