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"
[Portuguese, saying something about a "magic Carnival"]
Are you climbing up a slippery pole? (pole)
Fallin Deep In A Hole? (Deep In A Hole)
Fallin Down
Are you lost in an exitless maze,
Chasing impossible ways?
Are you runnin up a slippery hill?
Are you going to spill?
Can't you build a snowman in the desert?
Are You chasing an imaginary tresure?
Walls, they go under and there over the top (over the top)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Keep 'Em)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Reach 'Em)
It's Just A Dream
You're Only Dreamin
Another Dream
Will love be yours, if so, will it last?
When the summer's past, summers past (yeah)
When you're alone, starin up at the moon (up at the moon)
Is it staring at you (staring at you)
You're lucky dime you didn't mean to spend. Will you ever see it again? (see it again)
Walls, they go under then there over the top (over the top)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Keep 'Em)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Come Reach 'Em)
It's Just A Dream
You're Only Dreamin
Another Dream
[more french, saying something about a carnival]
Walls, they go under then there over the top (over the top!)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Strong Enough To Keep 'Em!)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top (All Have A Top!)
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Come And Reach 'Em!)
Yeah, come and reach em
Only a dream
It's just a dream
It's just a dream'
And then they go on in your head and you would scream
Holdin Back your dreams
Yeah, ohh, holdin back your dreams
Yeah, Hold Always Dreamin Never Always Dreamin
Ladies and gentlemen...
We present to you the afterlife
Beauty at its peak
All of this will be yours
Unless you drinketh from The River
Are you climbing up a slippery pole? (pole)
Fallin Deep In A Hole? (Deep In A Hole)
Fallin Down
Are you lost in an exitless maze,
Chasing impossible ways?
Are you runnin up a slippery hill?
Are you going to spill?
Can't you build a snowman in the desert?
Are You chasing an imaginary tresure?
Walls, they go under and there over the top (over the top)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Keep 'Em)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Reach 'Em)
It's Just A Dream
You're Only Dreamin
Another Dream
Will love be yours, if so, will it last?
When the summer's past, summers past (yeah)
When you're alone, starin up at the moon (up at the moon)
Is it staring at you (staring at you)
You're lucky dime you didn't mean to spend. Will you ever see it again? (see it again)
Walls, they go under then there over the top (over the top)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Keep 'Em)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Come Reach 'Em)
It's Just A Dream
You're Only Dreamin
Another Dream
[more french, saying something about a carnival]
Walls, they go under then there over the top (over the top!)
They haven't made a cage strong enough to keep 'em keep 'em keep 'em (Strong Enough To Keep 'Em!)
Mountains are enormous, but they all have a top (All Have A Top!)
it's up to someone with a dream to come and reach 'em reach 'em reach 'em (Come And Reach 'Em!)
Yeah, come and reach em
Only a dream
It's just a dream
It's just a dream'
And then they go on in your head and you would scream
Holdin Back your dreams
Yeah, ohh, holdin back your dreams
Yeah, Hold Always Dreamin Never Always Dreamin
Ladies and gentlemen...
We present to you the afterlife
Beauty at its peak
All of this will be yours
Unless you drinketh from The River
Lyrics submitted by MyAntiDrugIsSuicide
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