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"
Vattnet svart
Som manen full
Att jag are naken och ny
Water black
As the moon is full
Warm nightbreeze whispers
I'm naked and new
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Sixteen years old
I dare to swim further out
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Som om man kunde
Vidrora lycka
Jag virar den runt mig
Som en filt
Det are bara do, jag och manen
Like joy was something you could touch
I wrap it around me
Like a blanket
It's just you, me and the moon
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Sixteen years old
I dare to swim further out
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Som manen full
Att jag are naken och ny
Water black
As the moon is full
Warm nightbreeze whispers
I'm naked and new
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Sixteen years old
I dare to swim further out
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Som om man kunde
Vidrora lycka
Jag virar den runt mig
Som en filt
Det are bara do, jag och manen
Like joy was something you could touch
I wrap it around me
Like a blanket
It's just you, me and the moon
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
Sixteen years old
I dare to swim further out
I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky
Well, tonight I caught one
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"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
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just want to say that I only saw incorrect swedish parts everywhere and decided to do my own version because I'm from sweden and because of that I know what he says/sings. Every verse in swedish is just translated into english in the next verse, for example: Vattnet svart = water black, som månen full = as the moon is full. except for the last line in every english verse (I'm naked and new) and(It's just you, me and the moon). He doesn't sing that in swedish. Hope you enjoyed the language course =).
thanks soo much, i didnt know what they were sayin there and you just cleared that up for me. and this song is probably the most relaxing song ive heard in a while.
Yea, i will propose a question, what does everyone think Shekina mean? Is it something in swedish moof? But, heres the two answers from a message board i got... but it was spelled Shekinah*
Basically, the Shekinah is God's glory manifested amongst men. It's basically used when one wants to talk about God acting in the world, but without making him sound human. For example, God dwelt in Solomon's temple. Now, obviously God was not physically present in a body in the temple and no one really wants to say that he was, but at the same time one has to explain how God can dwell somewhere. Hence the tradition is that it was the Shekinah, God's glory, that resided in the temple.
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my friend was explaining to me that it was like for example gold dust falling from the sky or appearing on people, or angel's feathers... stuff like that
Does anyone else know why blindside named the song Shekina and what it is?
Yea, i will propose a question, what does everyone think Shekina mean? Is it something in swedish moof? But, heres the two answers from a message board i got... but it was spelled Shekinah*
Basically, the Shekinah is God's glory manifested amongst men. It's basically used when one wants to talk about God acting in the world, but without making him sound human. For example, God dwelt in Solomon's temple. Now, obviously God was not physically present in a body in the temple and no one really wants to say that he was, but at the same time one has to explain how God can dwell somewhere. Hence the tradition is that it was the Shekinah, God's glory, that resided in the temple.
or
my friend was explaining to me that it was like for example gold dust falling from the sky or appearing on people, or angel's feathers... stuff like that
Does anyone else know why blindside named the song Shekina and what it is?
what forum was that?
godcore.com hmmmmm i think it was under faith though.
To me Shekina seems like a godess: "I know you're always throwing kisses from the sky Well, tonight I caught one" and "It's just you, me and the moon" They all say that Shekina is in the sky, and you wouldn't wanna catch a kiss from a guy if you were one, right?
Kiss doesn't necessarly mean a literal kiss, maybe it's more of a comfort, emotion or caring.
Shekina in Kabbalah is also God's female half. So yeah, basically, a Goddess. And it's said that her seperation from God was what created/made room for evil in the world.
Perhaps the song was written to someone he was seperated from; his own personal Goddess?
well basically shekina is short for the shekina glory of God since blindside is a christian band and goddesses aren't a part of christianity. the shekinah glory was the manifest presence of God on earth in the holy of holies in the tabernacle. the shekinah glory dwelt between the wings of the sculpeted angels on the lid of the ark of the covenant... "The etymology of the dwelling or presence of God is the Hebrew word Sh'cheenah or as we pronounce it Shekinah. The term Shekinah was many times used interchangeably with the word God. In the Jewish mind it always spoke of the fact that He "dwelt in" or "rested upon" those who merited His favor, whether an individual, a community, or the entire Jewish people" as described by most scholars