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"
I waste away my tears
Cause I can't cry no more
No more no less
I said, my brothers drowning
Like a star, baby, like a slower suicide,
Me I gave mine away.
[Chorus]
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine only for you
A sad hello to death
I'm a stubborn goat on trial:
No more no less.
I said time will tell
If love is gonna have the strength to push it
The strength to push my pain away.
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
Love flourishes
Love flourishes,
You've gotta value love supreme
Cause I can't cry no more
No more no less
I said, my brothers drowning
Like a star, baby, like a slower suicide,
Me I gave mine away.
[Chorus]
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine only for you
A sad hello to death
I'm a stubborn goat on trial:
No more no less.
I said time will tell
If love is gonna have the strength to push it
The strength to push my pain away.
I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
Love flourishes
Love flourishes,
You've gotta value love supreme
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It is about UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.... If you give someone your HEARTSHINE you are entrusting them the most vulnerable part of your existence. To be able to see past our faults as humans, to be able to see into the souls of each other and still be able to see the beauty that remains behind all of our ugliness is the message of LOVE ROCK... I believe anyway.....