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"
A whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
A whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Remember your face
Who remembers you when you are gone?
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Come back and look for me
Look for me when I am lost
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Night turns to day
And I still have these questions
Bridges will break
Should I go forwards or backwards?
Night turns to day
And I still get no answers
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Remember your face
Who remembers you when you are gone?
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Come back and look for me
Look for me when I am lost
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
A whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Remember your face
Who remembers you when you are gone?
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Come back and look for me
Look for me when I am lost
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Night turns to day
And I still have these questions
Bridges will break
Should I go forwards or backwards?
Night turns to day
And I still get no answers
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Remember your face
Who remembers you when you are gone?
I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks
Come back and look for me
Look for me when I am lost
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Just a whisper, a whisper, a whisper, a whisper
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
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I love this song. I was totally surprised to read the first comment-- "shallow?" I was getting all warmed up to proving them all wrong, and then "silver_bs" destroyed my opportunity. sigh the sorrows of life.
Anyway, I think the whole song has this awesome feel to it-- that's the first thing that drew me in. It's not about love-- silver's totally right about the lyrics thing, someone needs to get that fixed. It's this guy, trying to figure out his place in the world-- realizing that everything, even himself, even his questions (answered or otherwise), are only a whisper, soon to die out and certainly not to be missed.