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"
Once in a life
We lived in a sanctuary
A song could get us free
Slept behind the altar
Only the singer saw
Now it is gone, years on
Times we took alone
Stealing an hour, buying a night
It`s hard on the telephone
Love outside the law
Jai tant reve do toi
Is it gone, this year
Is the song still in your ear
Were we only high
Just the wine
Only the times
When we`re old
How will the story be told
Windswept smoke used by time
Waiting for the bus
Will that be us?
Do you recall my friend
We never thought we`d ever fall
When the salesman came to call
Selling our soul to buy
Sometimes it ain`t no deal at all
Jai tant reve do toi
We lived in a sanctuary
A song could get us free
Slept behind the altar
Only the singer saw
Now it is gone, years on
Times we took alone
Stealing an hour, buying a night
It`s hard on the telephone
Love outside the law
Jai tant reve do toi
Is it gone, this year
Is the song still in your ear
Were we only high
Just the wine
Only the times
When we`re old
How will the story be told
Windswept smoke used by time
Waiting for the bus
Will that be us?
Do you recall my friend
We never thought we`d ever fall
When the salesman came to call
Selling our soul to buy
Sometimes it ain`t no deal at all
Jai tant reve do toi
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Well, I tried using an online translator to try and figure out what "jai tant reve do toi" means and the best i can figure is something like so many dreams I've shared with you. I think the theme of the song is the question, "were things really that good back then or does the passing of time somehow make it seem so?" like wine getting sweeter with age.maybe things haven't been that great lately and the singer has been reminiscing about the good old days.