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"
When you're asleep they may show you
Aerial views of the ground
Freudian slumber empty of sound
Over the rooftops and houses
Lost as it tries to be seen
Fields of incentive covered with green
Mesmerised children are playing
Meant to be seen but not heard
Stop me from dreaming!
Don't be absurd!
Well if we can help you we will
You're looking tired and ill
As I count backwards your eyes become
Heavier still
Sleep, won't you allow yourself fall?
Nothing can hurt you at all
With your consent, I can experiment further still
Madrigal music is playing
Voices can faintly be heard
Please leave this patient undisturbed
Sentenced to drift far away now
Nothing is quite what it seems
Sometimes entangled in your own dreams
Well
If we can help you we will
Soon as you're tired and ill
With your consent we can experiment further still
Well
Thanks to our kindness and skill
You'll have no trouble until
You catch your breath and the nurse will present you the bill
Aerial views of the ground
Freudian slumber empty of sound
Over the rooftops and houses
Lost as it tries to be seen
Fields of incentive covered with green
Mesmerised children are playing
Meant to be seen but not heard
Stop me from dreaming!
Don't be absurd!
Well if we can help you we will
You're looking tired and ill
As I count backwards your eyes become
Heavier still
Sleep, won't you allow yourself fall?
Nothing can hurt you at all
With your consent, I can experiment further still
Madrigal music is playing
Voices can faintly be heard
Please leave this patient undisturbed
Sentenced to drift far away now
Nothing is quite what it seems
Sometimes entangled in your own dreams
Well
If we can help you we will
Soon as you're tired and ill
With your consent we can experiment further still
Well
Thanks to our kindness and skill
You'll have no trouble until
You catch your breath and the nurse will present you the bill
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Entangled Lyrics as written by Steve Hackett Anthony Banks
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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