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"
The night is growing dark
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
And always takes you in
And the mind grows numb 'til it's feeling no pain
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
Wash your women in your whiskey when your futures in the past
And you're staring up at heaven from the bottom of a glass
And you need some insulation from the years you've had and lost
And you feel the persperation as you're adding up the cost
And the night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out...
There's a land beyond the living
There's a land beyond the dead
If it's true that God's forgiving of the lives that we have led
In the distance there's a thunder and the air is thick and warm
And the patrons watch with wonder the approaching of the storm
And night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out for a handful of rain
Alright
There's an old man in the corner and he's smoking all the time
And the smoke is drifting upward and it's twisted in my, twisted in my mind
The whiskey's getting deeper and I use it like a moat
There's a bluesman in the distance and he's lost inside his note
His note
His note
The night is growing dark
From somwhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
And always takes you in
And the night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
And always takes you in
And the mind grows numb 'til it's feeling no pain
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
Wash your women in your whiskey when your futures in the past
And you're staring up at heaven from the bottom of a glass
And you need some insulation from the years you've had and lost
And you feel the persperation as you're adding up the cost
And the night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out...
There's a land beyond the living
There's a land beyond the dead
If it's true that God's forgiving of the lives that we have led
In the distance there's a thunder and the air is thick and warm
And the patrons watch with wonder the approaching of the storm
And night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out for a handful of rain
Alright
There's an old man in the corner and he's smoking all the time
And the smoke is drifting upward and it's twisted in my, twisted in my mind
The whiskey's getting deeper and I use it like a moat
There's a bluesman in the distance and he's lost inside his note
His note
His note
The night is growing dark
From somwhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
And always takes you in
And the night rolls on like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
Lyrics submitted by gnatman
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