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"
Tuesday, My heart is brimming
I'm a child in the wild wind
dead leaves and daylight dimming
no beginning and no end
inside a candle of defiance
moonlight
a river of eparls
'cause were gonna need more
than money and science
to see us through this world
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
shut all the windows
shut all the doors
we're keeping it all out of sight
we're keeping it all
it's tearing us apart
you don't know your good
from your bad from your black
from your blood from your wrong
from your right
so you camouflage your heart
i don't want no other distractions
there's too much here to see
faint hearts or jaded reactions
contraptions of history
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
shut all the windows
shut all the doors
i'm keeping it all out of sight
i'm keeping it all
it's mine, and mine alone
corrosion collision
i need a vision
to tear off the cloak of the night
and shatter eyes of stone
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
forever is tomorrow is today
forever is tomorrow is today
(Repeat Chorus)
I'm a child in the wild wind
dead leaves and daylight dimming
no beginning and no end
inside a candle of defiance
moonlight
a river of eparls
'cause were gonna need more
than money and science
to see us through this world
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
shut all the windows
shut all the doors
we're keeping it all out of sight
we're keeping it all
it's tearing us apart
you don't know your good
from your bad from your black
from your blood from your wrong
from your right
so you camouflage your heart
i don't want no other distractions
there's too much here to see
faint hearts or jaded reactions
contraptions of history
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
shut all the windows
shut all the doors
i'm keeping it all out of sight
i'm keeping it all
it's mine, and mine alone
corrosion collision
i need a vision
to tear off the cloak of the night
and shatter eyes of stone
you say it cant be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me, for you, for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today
forever is tomorrow is today
forever is tomorrow is today
(Repeat Chorus)
Lyrics submitted by Jimmy
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