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"
Autopilot, is up and running seconds too late
this navigator has crunched too many coordinates
in this stubborn crap shoot. place is more than a numeric value
oh these words like dying breaths from ghosts and farms long since been left for dead
a fight fight fight for place position
a plight plight plight through conversation
a light light light of indignation
now slides slides slides, like a metronome, setting sun
ride these waves, she's taking on too much water
from crying eyes that long to be, more than just man-made fodder
the grey of the steel milles, brings back the haze
of travels down abandoned roads, once again reading from
the last night of the earth, what is it telling you tonight
past truths that guided us, now slow our strides
(lighten the load for those along for the ride
make it easy as it ever was)
a coarse voice and a gravel throat
time and tide will bless this boat
a vessel launched from a trestle poarch
beams of pride in place of these supports
oh these castle walls, outnumbered by cannon balls
they take their toll and they stake their claim
leaving everyone else to blame each other
when we're all so selfish - I stand a sinner
if I can stand at all
and I'd take what I've got coming a million times if only I could find a way
oh you've held on to the stillness so long, wrapping all up under the covers,
would it last through flashings of war
where nighttime doesn't exist, but there is searching
for gold and searching for souls, but does the search
exist anymore in any way, shape or form
The rust from the steel mills, weakens the wheels
that turn us to progress and further away from ourselves
mountains and spring air do us well, when we all
feel desperation, under falls splashing at our feet
the falls splash at our feet
this navigator has crunched too many coordinates
in this stubborn crap shoot. place is more than a numeric value
oh these words like dying breaths from ghosts and farms long since been left for dead
a fight fight fight for place position
a plight plight plight through conversation
a light light light of indignation
now slides slides slides, like a metronome, setting sun
ride these waves, she's taking on too much water
from crying eyes that long to be, more than just man-made fodder
the grey of the steel milles, brings back the haze
of travels down abandoned roads, once again reading from
the last night of the earth, what is it telling you tonight
past truths that guided us, now slow our strides
(lighten the load for those along for the ride
make it easy as it ever was)
a coarse voice and a gravel throat
time and tide will bless this boat
a vessel launched from a trestle poarch
beams of pride in place of these supports
oh these castle walls, outnumbered by cannon balls
they take their toll and they stake their claim
leaving everyone else to blame each other
when we're all so selfish - I stand a sinner
if I can stand at all
and I'd take what I've got coming a million times if only I could find a way
oh you've held on to the stillness so long, wrapping all up under the covers,
would it last through flashings of war
where nighttime doesn't exist, but there is searching
for gold and searching for souls, but does the search
exist anymore in any way, shape or form
The rust from the steel mills, weakens the wheels
that turn us to progress and further away from ourselves
mountains and spring air do us well, when we all
feel desperation, under falls splashing at our feet
the falls splash at our feet
Lyrics submitted by PLANES
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