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"
When it should learn to speak before it melts away
And thus express that each have words no one else will say
I have been floated to this thought this hour
On a series of events i cannot explain
Gather yer wits, your will, your luck, yer power
that what it would effect that will not remain
A light shines through a little hole the hole's inside somewhere
The spiracle's obedience it is true (i swear (honestly))
If one claims to know the way let fashion be his bride
And more akin to welcome in to being forced inside
And thus express that each have words no one else will say
I have been floated to this thought this hour
On a series of events i cannot explain
Gather yer wits, your will, your luck, yer power
that what it would effect that will not remain
A light shines through a little hole the hole's inside somewhere
The spiracle's obedience it is true (i swear (honestly))
If one claims to know the way let fashion be his bride
And more akin to welcome in to being forced inside
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This song now gives me goosebumps. It is written so beautifully and while I do not attempt to deny it, help from Emerson be damned!
When put together in paragraph form, it really is amazing how much beauty it retains while taking on a wholly different thing altogether. Beautiful songwriting and beautiful writing are different things, I believe. This song is both.
And it is true. I've been floated my whole life...
Hi, found this site by accident. Umm, I wrote this song. Thanks for the kind words. Emerson is correct. I don't think anyone ever caught that although I have mentioned it in the past and would never take credit from him. I was reading his essays when I wrote the tune. Thanks to Alanana because I could never find the essay again. Must have lost that copy of essays. It is the essay - Intellect. I will read it again real soon. <br /> <br /> Some of the lyrics here are a little incorrect. But the gist is right.<br /> <br /> We all did get to wherever we are by some crazy stream. Not so much about acid more about that essay.<br /> <br /> Glad Jeff sang on it too. So did a bunch of other folks. All of whom have been and are being floated. I love Emerson.<br /> <br /> Anyway, thanks. For real. Also thanks for the link to the essays!
Hi, found this site by accident. Umm, I wrote this song. Thanks for the kind words. Emerson is correct. I don't think anyone ever caught that although I have mentioned it in the past and would never take credit from him. I was reading his essays when I wrote the tune. Thanks to Alanana because I could never find the essay again. Must have lost that copy of essays. It is the essay - Intellect. I will read it again real soon. <br /> <br /> Some of the lyrics here are a little incorrect. But the gist is right.<br /> <br /> We all did get to wherever we are by some crazy stream. Not so much about acid more about that essay.<br /> <br /> Glad Jeff sang on it too. So did a bunch of other folks. All of whom have been and are being floated. I love Emerson.<br /> <br /> Anyway, thanks. For real. Also thanks for the link to the essays!