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"
Oh, tell me do you live in dreams
You're not exactly what you seem to be
Yeah, we want to follow Ellesun
But come tomorrow we will want to run
From Ellesun
Oh no, you're so fashionably late
And you're wearing all that black-like fate
You wanna run to the forest all the time
She's got a ring of serpents
One green, one red, entwined
She's got skeletons in her closet
That always seem to fall in line
I wonder if she's lost it in the head
Yeah, she just wants to get you into bad
Just take another prisoner, Ellesun
Oh yeah, just tell another lie and its done
Oh my, your name cannot be traced
And your theology is out of date
You wanna run to the fairies all the time
She offers you the ring of serpents
And she offers you her hand
Its not like love or friendship
Its something hidden
Oh, the meeting's on
Its such a secret circle
Secret circle of
Secret circle of
Secret circle of...
Oh, tell me do you live in dreams
You're not exactly what you seem to be, Ellesun
You're not exactly what you seem to be
Yeah, we want to follow Ellesun
But come tomorrow we will want to run
From Ellesun
Oh no, you're so fashionably late
And you're wearing all that black-like fate
You wanna run to the forest all the time
She's got a ring of serpents
One green, one red, entwined
She's got skeletons in her closet
That always seem to fall in line
I wonder if she's lost it in the head
Yeah, she just wants to get you into bad
Just take another prisoner, Ellesun
Oh yeah, just tell another lie and its done
Oh my, your name cannot be traced
And your theology is out of date
You wanna run to the fairies all the time
She offers you the ring of serpents
And she offers you her hand
Its not like love or friendship
Its something hidden
Oh, the meeting's on
Its such a secret circle
Secret circle of
Secret circle of
Secret circle of...
Oh, tell me do you live in dreams
You're not exactly what you seem to be, Ellesun
Lyrics submitted by manprettys_panties, edited by McThuggin2011
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"You must beware of ???" "Is that what she meant?" etc.
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It's fascinating to read that, especially since it was what I guessed that the song was about; to me it sounds very much like someone who was becoming involved in wicca or the occult, someone in danger of demonization.
"Theology out of date" seems like someone who is seeking so-called older religions, and 'running to the fairies' definitely reminds me of wicca/occult practises.