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"
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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This is the first Sigur Ros song that I heard and it brought tears to my eyes. After listening to it on headphones (which I recommend) I started to notice small bits of music that I didn't hear before. This is such a great song, and as for it's meaning, to me it's many different things, depending on my mood. It can make me depressed because I start to think that this would make a great cuddle song and I have no one to cuddle with :(
your description about cuddling and having noone to cuddle with is exactly what i feel with a lot of sigur ros . especially untitled 3.
Very simple, but still devine to listen to. Especially in the bath... haha.
When they played this in concert with the two disco balls, I nearly cried. Sigur Rós can make anything beautiful, even cheesy mirror balls.
this song is gorgeous. i love listening to the cd while i'm falling asleep, but this one is by far my favourite.
best song on the first half of the album
Six and a half minutes of a repetitive piano refrain would be suicide for any other band, but Sigur Rós makes it beautiful. When it shifts up an octave near the end... oh man.
I will forever relate this song to Japanese suicides and contradictingly to happiness. This is due to my hearing this song (not for the first time) on a really well done short film not too far back. It was the perfect choice of song for the moment/events and lingers with me as such. Beautiful and mesmerizing.
If you listen in closely at the end of the song you can subtly hear the cloggin and tapping of the piano he used... the wood taps hitting the metal strings of the piano... That's what makes music brilliant! It's that! The little things... that make the song...
beautiful. one time i was listening to this song and it just made me think of a person running through masses of people looking for a person and near the end finding them and thinking about each other.
that is EXACTLY what i see. i often make my room as dark as possible. close my eyes til i reach a half awake state. sort of a subconscious and the most amazing images come to mind. your description is the most frequent for this track. absolutely amazing. it makes me cry everytime i listen to it. unbelievably simple yet moving.
listen to the song. listen extra carefully at 3:16-3:19 did you notice it?
this song makes me feel like im swirling around, but never getting dizzy. my mind if flying at such a rate, in such odd directions, I have no concentration everything is happening at once, so quickly and smoothly.
this is true musical beauty