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"
Sun's up, mmhmm (uh huh), looks okay
The world survives into another day
And I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
I had another dream about lions at the door
They weren't half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
Walls windows trees, waves coming through
You be in me and I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley where the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake
Thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take
Pointing a finger at eternity
I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy
Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun
Polished and precise like the brain behind the gun
(Should be) they got me thinking about eternity
(But) some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're going to sail away
Going to sail into eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
The world survives into another day
And I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
I had another dream about lions at the door
They weren't half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
Walls windows trees, waves coming through
You be in me and I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley where the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake
Thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take
Pointing a finger at eternity
I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy
Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun
Polished and precise like the brain behind the gun
(Should be) they got me thinking about eternity
(But) some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're going to sail away
Going to sail into eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
And I'm wondering where the lions are
I'm wondering where the lions are
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Pathetic, for such a great song, and so little said! Well I don't know if he has much U.S. market so that could explain the lack of respect for this song.
There is a fair amount that I don't understand but I kind of feel some of what he sings.
Its fairly obvious that Bruce is having a reality trip
"Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay The world survives into another day And I'm thinking about eternity Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me"
You could almost call it a mid-age reality trip. This dude sees the big picture, and he is having a hard time wrapping his mind around it, I think when you look at reality too closely it becomes surreal.
"I had another dream about lions at the door They weren't half as frightening as they were before"
The lions are his surreal look at death and how the more he looks at the big surreal picture the less hard it is to not be afraid of the surreality of reality
"Walls, windows, trees, waves coming though"
I'm guessing this is another reference to the coast, and another example of Bruce having a reality trip. I wouldnt doubt that when he wrote that he was sitting at his beach house, had a reality trip and wrote down what he saw right then.
"You be in me and I'll be in you Together in eternity"
Like any good movie there is an element of love in the song.
"Up among the firs where it smells so sweet"
Another reference to the Canadian west coast, which is notorious for its forests' of sweet smelling fir trees
"Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake"
Yet more references B.C
"Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun Polished and precise like the brain behind the gun(Should be)"
More reality trip, like many other ummm... more ... intellectual people he calls out on how we still fight wars yet me have so much more power and reason than guns and bombs in our brain. , i mean, it blows my mind that we are still killing each other when we are such an advanced civilization??? anyway...
"Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay One of these days we're going to sail away"
The first line is yet another reference to the gorgeous west coast and the second is a reference to being free. Like many other who want to rid of this thing we call life and live free know that the only place that is truly free I(and still feasible) is the ocean. I think any freedom seeker out there has wanted to sail around the world at least once :)
This is my take on this amazing song, I am Canadian and I am going to give this amazing song the respect it deserves.
I am not canadian and i guess i respect the song but its definitely about pot