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"
They say there's a sun in the sky
They say there's a sun in the sky
But me, I can't imagine why
There might have been one
Before you were gone
But now all I see is the night, so
I don't believe in the sun
How could it shine down on everyone
And never shine on me
How could there be
Such cruelty.
The only sun I ever knew
Was the beautiful one that was you
Since you went away
It's nighttime all day
And it's usually raining too
The only stars there really are
Were shining in your eyes
There is no sun except the one
That never shone on other guys
The moon to whom the poets croon
Has given up and died
Astronomy will have to be revised
They say there's a sun in the sky
But me, I can't imagine why
There might have been one
Before you were gone
But now all I see is the night, so
I don't believe in the sun
How could it shine down on everyone
And never shine on me
How could there be
Such cruelty.
The only sun I ever knew
Was the beautiful one that was you
Since you went away
It's nighttime all day
And it's usually raining too
The only stars there really are
Were shining in your eyes
There is no sun except the one
That never shone on other guys
The moon to whom the poets croon
Has given up and died
Astronomy will have to be revised
Lyrics submitted by Anne Arbour, edited by themadmaiden
I Don't Believe in the Sun Lyrics as written by Stephin Raymond Merritt
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING
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you could be the happiest person in the world, and would still be brought down by this song. stephen merritt's voice was made to depress people. i love him.
it is a bit of a depressing voice... so low!
no offense, but his name is spelled Stephin.
And yes he does have a gorgeous voice. I just wish more people knew about the Magnetic Fields. They are one of the best indie-pop bands ever who seem to only be appreciated by indie-hipsters or grad students.
@vincent h. that's ok. i forgive you
haha
i agree
this song is fantastic. it completely kills the romance of love i have found. it's great. i'm quite fond of it.
oh man, Stephin merritt has a very deep/meloncholy voice, but he can hold some very long notes...
This isn't completely depressing, or maybe it's just me that see's all the bittersweetness of his songs. These are the best kind of love songs, for that's what it is and you would be a fool to think otherwise. Splendidly clever lyrics avoiding the subject by pointing elsewhere. It's an art.
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A great cut off of a great album. I think this track in particular is a great summation of Stephin's singing and songwriting. If I had one song to describe the band to someone, it would probably be this one.