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"
Another day is ending
I remember when my world, came falling down
Out there the stars stop dancing
Lost in my darkness now, the rain keeps falling down
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
Here comes the blue train rollin'
Across my heart it crawls, the rain still pouring down
Another day escapes me
A little later maybe, love will roll around
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
I've been waiting on a corner
Yeah, I've been waiting for a sign now
Oh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign now, oh, now
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart, my soul, oh, hey
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my darling son, hey, hey
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart
I've been waiting on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign now
Oh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign, now, oh, ooh
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin'
Come and carry my, my, my heart now, oh, oh yeah
I've been standing on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign now
Hear the blue train, hear the blue train, oh
It's the blue train rolling
I remember when my world, came falling down
Out there the stars stop dancing
Lost in my darkness now, the rain keeps falling down
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
Here comes the blue train rollin'
Across my heart it crawls, the rain still pouring down
Another day escapes me
A little later maybe, love will roll around
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
I've been waiting on a corner
Yeah, I've been waiting for a sign now
Oh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign now, oh, now
Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart, my soul, oh, hey
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my darling son, hey, hey
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart
I've been waiting on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign now
Oh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign, now, oh, ooh
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin'
Come and carry my, my, my heart now, oh, oh yeah
I've been standing on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign now
Hear the blue train, hear the blue train, oh
It's the blue train rolling
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