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 I was young,
The smallest trick of light,
Could catch my eye,
Then life was new
And every new day,
I thought that I could fly.
I believed in what I hoped for,
And I hoped in things unseen,
I had wings and dreams could soar,
I just don't feel like flying anymore.
When the stars threw down their spears,
Watered Heaven with their tears,
Before words were spoken,
Before eternity.
Dear Father,
I need you,
Your strength my heart to mend.
I want to fly higher,
Every new day again.
When I was small,
The furthest I could reach,
Was not so high, then I,
Thought the world was so much smaller,
Feeling I could fly.
Through distant deeps and skies,
Behind infinity,
Below the face of Heaven,
He stoops to create me.
Man versus himself.
Man versus machine.
Man versus the world.
Mankind versus me.
The struggles go on,
The wisdom I lack,
The burdens keep piling
Up on my back.
So hard to breathe,
To take the next step.
The mountain is high,
I wait in the depths.
Yearning for grace,
And hoping for peace.
Dear God...increase.
Healing hands
Of God have mercy on our unclean souls once again.
Jesus Christ,
Light of the world burning bright
Within our hearts forever.
Freedom means love without condition,
Without a beginning or an end.
Here’s my heart,
let it be forever Yours,
only you can make
every new day seem so new.
The smallest trick of light,
Could catch my eye,
Then life was new
And every new day,
I thought that I could fly.
I believed in what I hoped for,
And I hoped in things unseen,
I had wings and dreams could soar,
I just don't feel like flying anymore.
When the stars threw down their spears,
Watered Heaven with their tears,
Before words were spoken,
Before eternity.
Dear Father,
I need you,
Your strength my heart to mend.
I want to fly higher,
Every new day again.
When I was small,
The furthest I could reach,
Was not so high, then I,
Thought the world was so much smaller,
Feeling I could fly.
Through distant deeps and skies,
Behind infinity,
Below the face of Heaven,
He stoops to create me.
Man versus himself.
Man versus machine.
Man versus the world.
Mankind versus me.
The struggles go on,
The wisdom I lack,
The burdens keep piling
Up on my back.
So hard to breathe,
To take the next step.
The mountain is high,
I wait in the depths.
Yearning for grace,
And hoping for peace.
Dear God...increase.
Healing hands
Of God have mercy on our unclean souls once again.
Jesus Christ,
Light of the world burning bright
Within our hearts forever.
Freedom means love without condition,
Without a beginning or an end.
Here’s my heart,
let it be forever Yours,
only you can make
every new day seem so new.
Lyrics submitted by ThreeMilesDown, edited by zehnra
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Hear the live version from the End Is Here album, the very last track will remain in my heart while you are still alive..
That's was the most solemn and powerful "Amazing Grace" and "Silent Night" I ever heard in entire life.
God Bless FIF, where ever they are right now, U want them to know how much they touched my life in the time I needed it the most...I'm so happy I was given the chance to listen to their song, by GOD's GLORY it happened.
I wish I was also there when they were performing it.
I love them, I Love GOD!
FIF is my favorite band in the entire universe! This song is my absolute favorite song by them and favorite song of all time.
This song represents growing up. Things as a child are so easy and you feel as if you could fly or do anything your heart desires. When you begin to grow up and as you mature, life presents more difficulty, burdens, and stress. Through those difficulties, nothing can help you except for God. He can make you feel like you can do anything, like when you were a child. He can make "every new day feel so new."
Hearing this song played live by FIF was the most spiritual experience that I've ever had. Seriously.
bear_hug20 on 06-17-2008 @ 02:36:51 AM
+1
thanks!
btw, we just looked at the poem The Tyger by William Blake in school today and I was surprised to see that some of the words were the same or similar to some words in this song.
Line 5 of the poem, "In what distant deeps or skies", matches FIF's line: "Through distant deeps and skies, behind infinity, below the face of Heaven, he stoops to create me."
And lines 17 and 18, "When the stars threw down their spears,/And watered heaven with their tears," match the same words in this song.
Just thought I'd point it out. But it's a great song, imo. :)
In William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, the poems are written in sets - one from the point of view of innocence, and one from experience. I think he refers to the Tyger here so that we see this as a song of innocence, written at the beginning of life- he finishes the song with On Distant Shores which is a song of experience, written near the end of life after struggling
This song represents life to me. It says to me a life even if it seems unsavable can be saved by the power of God. Its a beautiful song.
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I see it as being about how God is easy to accept when you're a child, when you even believe you can fly if you tried enough. Every spark of light is amazing and new... as you get older, problems pile upon you and God is harder to accept. This is a call for God to help him be that child again, see every day as new... and feel like he can soar once again.