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"
And I'm walking on the cold side of the moon
And I don't feel that peace of mind
That I had read, about in school
My vision set on one
A soul is lying it awaits
To feel alright
Broken, restless, tired
The fear of flight
But have I told you that you're beautiful in white
And I'm strolling through a garden it's midday
And I know her source of life
So close to death, and all it's pain
So I pray for a safe flight
Jodie lies waiting now for days
But she feels alright
Alone, but doing fine
A week goes by
Have I told you that you are beautiful in white
Promises a waste, believed in yesterday
Lied to, scorned in shame, taken in yesterday
Fading to the strain
Fear of yesterday
Fear of yesterday
It's all lies
And I'm dancing on the ocean waves it's late
Father comiserates and cries
Forever flying she partakes
And soars to greater heights
Her life in harmony, arrived
She feels alright
Triumphant, youthful child
The feeling of flight
Have I told you that you're beautiful tonight
And I don't feel that peace of mind
That I had read, about in school
My vision set on one
A soul is lying it awaits
To feel alright
Broken, restless, tired
The fear of flight
But have I told you that you're beautiful in white
And I'm strolling through a garden it's midday
And I know her source of life
So close to death, and all it's pain
So I pray for a safe flight
Jodie lies waiting now for days
But she feels alright
Alone, but doing fine
A week goes by
Have I told you that you are beautiful in white
Promises a waste, believed in yesterday
Lied to, scorned in shame, taken in yesterday
Fading to the strain
Fear of yesterday
Fear of yesterday
It's all lies
And I'm dancing on the ocean waves it's late
Father comiserates and cries
Forever flying she partakes
And soars to greater heights
Her life in harmony, arrived
She feels alright
Triumphant, youthful child
The feeling of flight
Have I told you that you're beautiful tonight
Lyrics submitted by SpLaT
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