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"
thy will be done
here on this highway
in every house and field i pray
all in meekness yield
aided by want
among stranger people
to disgrace so soon i've come
drift like sleep into the hotel montana
lay low for thy name's sake
el matador louisiana
full of bulls' blood and what not
coarse jest to a tight knot
you are not acquainted with your own heart
frozen prayer upon my lips
inside the blood runs hot
he was reviled
yet he reviled not
like a voice in an empty house
breathe your breath
and speak to me
speak to me
it's a dry leaf
that shivers on the branch
what matter if the wind cast it down
with a ruthless hand
'cause we remember always
that it took place forever
thy kingdom come in
whosoever
here on this highway
in every house and field i pray
all in meekness yield
aided by want
among stranger people
to disgrace so soon i've come
drift like sleep into the hotel montana
lay low for thy name's sake
el matador louisiana
full of bulls' blood and what not
coarse jest to a tight knot
you are not acquainted with your own heart
frozen prayer upon my lips
inside the blood runs hot
he was reviled
yet he reviled not
like a voice in an empty house
breathe your breath
and speak to me
speak to me
it's a dry leaf
that shivers on the branch
what matter if the wind cast it down
with a ruthless hand
'cause we remember always
that it took place forever
thy kingdom come in
whosoever
Lyrics submitted by buckley
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"Like a voice in an empty house breathe your breath and speak to me , speak to me"
This line I got a different meaning and it is
"when a house is empty you can hear the spoken voice very clearly it reverberates due to having nothing to muffle it allowing the sound to reach all areas with uninhibited clarity.