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"
Missy I miss you so. oh little sister
I wish you'd come back to me and sit by my side
We'd laugh and we'd play again, if only you'll try
You know "they" would show the way
From the other side
Rise from your grave little sister
Rise rise rise my friends rise
Spirits rising from their grave
Burning shadows in the dead of night
Icy fingers all over my hand
Try to make me understand
"finally we have returned all of us"
Missy is that you, come closer
Spirits rising from their grave
Everywhere that ghostly stare
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where she stands
"they" are back to share my life "they" are back
Missy come, come with me, there are things I must know
How did you get here, where's the door to the other side
Missy: "beyond the graves lies the gate
The gate that leads to the dead
We have to leave before the dawn
If not by the sun we will burn"
Spirits rising from their grave
Soon the dawn will chase the dark away
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where "they" stand
Am I glad you have returned all of you
Do you remember when grandmother said she heard "them" sing
I've heard "them" too and I really wish I could hear "them" again
Missy: "in your mind you'll hear "them" sing
Every night at the graves
We have to leave before the dawn
If not by the sun we will burn
Now sing"
Show your powers onto me
I wish you'd come back to me and sit by my side
We'd laugh and we'd play again, if only you'll try
You know "they" would show the way
From the other side
Rise from your grave little sister
Rise rise rise my friends rise
Spirits rising from their grave
Burning shadows in the dead of night
Icy fingers all over my hand
Try to make me understand
"finally we have returned all of us"
Missy is that you, come closer
Spirits rising from their grave
Everywhere that ghostly stare
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where she stands
"they" are back to share my life "they" are back
Missy come, come with me, there are things I must know
How did you get here, where's the door to the other side
Missy: "beyond the graves lies the gate
The gate that leads to the dead
We have to leave before the dawn
If not by the sun we will burn"
Spirits rising from their grave
Soon the dawn will chase the dark away
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where "they" stand
Am I glad you have returned all of you
Do you remember when grandmother said she heard "them" sing
I've heard "them" too and I really wish I could hear "them" again
Missy: "in your mind you'll hear "them" sing
Every night at the graves
We have to leave before the dawn
If not by the sun we will burn
Now sing"
Show your powers onto me
Lyrics submitted by Rider_of_the_Sun
At the Graves Lyrics as written by Kim Bendix Petersen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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