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"
Hearing - Talking - Yes I - Love you
Set your heart sail on the river
Look around you as you drift downstream Hearing
Pouring souls into the ocean Talking
Take account of all you've seen Love you
One people - Together
Freedom for today
So easy the future
So see the children's way
Love me
Teach me
Know me
One people - Together
Freedom for today
Tomorrow forever
So see the people's way
Many moons cascade one river
They light from side to side
As we cross in close proximity
Like rivers our hearts entwine
How we talk - How we teach our children
How we move - We direct our eyes
All the senses tuned discovery
As and as and when our hearts decide
Be ready now - Be ye circle
Be the central force ye life
As the game extends the cycle
Be ready to move
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
Hearing - Talking - Yes I - Love you
Solo
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
Who would believe you - Wise men do
Days that we knew it clear with you
You sing the answers question time
Now it you need me let our hearts entwine
Let our hearts entwine
Hearts - Sailing down the river
Hearts - Throwing out a line
I hearing it - I living it - I believe in it - I loving it
Hearts
Two hearts will always be
In and out of time
Solo
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
As we flow down life's rivers
I see the stars glow - One by one
All angels of the magic constellation
Be singing us now
Set your heart sail on the river
Look around you as you drift downstream Hearing
Pouring souls into the ocean Talking
Take account of all you've seen Love you
One people - Together
Freedom for today
So easy the future
So see the children's way
Love me
Teach me
Know me
One people - Together
Freedom for today
Tomorrow forever
So see the people's way
Many moons cascade one river
They light from side to side
As we cross in close proximity
Like rivers our hearts entwine
How we talk - How we teach our children
How we move - We direct our eyes
All the senses tuned discovery
As and as and when our hearts decide
Be ready now - Be ye circle
Be the central force ye life
As the game extends the cycle
Be ready to move
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
Hearing - Talking - Yes I - Love you
Solo
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
Who would believe you - Wise men do
Days that we knew it clear with you
You sing the answers question time
Now it you need me let our hearts entwine
Let our hearts entwine
Hearts - Sailing down the river
Hearts - Throwing out a line
I hearing it - I living it - I believe in it - I loving it
Hearts
Two hearts will always be
In and out of time
Solo
One heart's for love Hearts
One's for giving Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one Throwing out a line
I hearing it Hearts
I living it
I believe in it Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better Hearts
Than one In and out of time
As we flow down life's rivers
I see the stars glow - One by one
All angels of the magic constellation
Be singing us now
Lyrics submitted by KirstenDanielle, edited by Martin65
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