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"
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here, here, here
She's convinced she could hold back a glacier
But she couldn't keep baby alive
Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere
Here, here, here
You say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it this circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
If the divine master plan is perfected
Maybe next I'll give Judus a try
Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin
Here, here, here
You say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it this circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
How mant fates turn around in the overturn
Ballerina's that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
How mant fates turn around in the overturn
Ballerina's that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
Say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it
This circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here, here, here
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here, here, here
She's convinced she could hold back a glacier
But she couldn't keep baby alive
Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere
Here, here, here
You say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it this circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
If the divine master plan is perfected
Maybe next I'll give Judus a try
Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin
Here, here, here
You say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it this circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
How mant fates turn around in the overturn
Ballerina's that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
How mant fates turn around in the overturn
Ballerina's that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
Say you don't want it again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it
This circus were in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here, here, here
Lyrics submitted by Novartza, edited by terrysalt, cyanidefaery
Spark [2006 Remastered] Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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