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"
On a day like this, a hundred lifetimes ago
You on a shore, across the point
I looked through my hands and you drew me a line
When you were mine
On a world like this, a hundred turns left to go
Deep in a room, which I've never seen
Outside it's so cold but I'm waiting for time
When you were mine
Plenty of islands between now and then
Rocks break the boats of the painted face men
And they drown, and they're born
And they live once again
And this all happens
When you were mine
In a storm like this, a hundred kisses of snow
You with another so easily sleep
What's real and what's dreamt become close and entwine
When you were mine
You on a shore, across the point
I looked through my hands and you drew me a line
When you were mine
On a world like this, a hundred turns left to go
Deep in a room, which I've never seen
Outside it's so cold but I'm waiting for time
When you were mine
Plenty of islands between now and then
Rocks break the boats of the painted face men
And they drown, and they're born
And they live once again
And this all happens
When you were mine
In a storm like this, a hundred kisses of snow
You with another so easily sleep
What's real and what's dreamt become close and entwine
When you were mine
Lyrics submitted by mrtrout
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Actually, it's a love song from Bilbo Baggins to Frodo, set roughly a hundred years after the end of the "Return of the King." The line, "You on a shore, across the point" is in reference to Bilbo watching Frodo depart for the Undying Lands from the Grey Havens on a white ship. Unfortunately, Frodo fell overboard and was drowned and then eaten by crabs, and Bilbo is sad.
Actually, I've never really thought the Church's lyrics lend themselves well to literal analysis, Steve Kilbey's lyrics reading more like Symbolist poetry or, maybe even more appropriately, like Joseph Cornell's artwork. He has a remarkable, painterly talent for putting together evocative lyrical images in such a way as to render physical--or at least, more immediately and concretely comprehensible--the emotions which the music conveys abstractly. I believe he's one of the most gifted songwriters pop music has given us, for sure.
I'm still pretty sure I'm right about my "Lord of the Rings" fan-fic interpretation of this particular song, however.
Honestly owennnnnnnnnnnn, I have a feeling you're making this up; unelss I hear otherwise from SKilbey!In particular, the reference to dreams in the last 2 lines certainly is consistant with DreamTime. AND when he speaks of islands and painted faced men? I dont see how that has to do with LOTR, but it makes total sense with regards to the aboriginee's
i agree with sozluk, australian bands/writer are known to weave alot of things into their music about who really owns this land.
I have no idea what this song means, but I thoroughly enjoy it...
Totally agree.
fuck you
@~anner~ same to you.
Honestly owennnnnnnnnnnn, I have a feeling you're making this up; unelss I hear otherwise from SKilbey!In particular, the reference to dreams in the last 2 lines certainly is consistant with DreamTime. AND when he speaks of islands and painted faced men? I dont see how that has to do with LOTR, but it makes total sense with regards to the aboriginee's