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"
Out one day, walking one day
Out one day with you, hallelujah
We found a wood with trolleys on wheels
Rolling all around the hills, hallelujah
And just as soon as it had slipped into sleepy dusk
And it's not very likely that we'll see it again
Out one day, walking one day
Out one day with you, hallelujah
We found a wood, we unfound a wood
And then we cried, oh no
Please tell me, will we ever find it again?
In the depths of Trolley Wood, do Trolleys still drive?
Gone for the day to the Trolley Wood
I'm gone for the day to the Trolley Wood
The Trolley Wood is taking me away
Out one day with you, hallelujah
We found a wood with trolleys on wheels
Rolling all around the hills, hallelujah
And just as soon as it had slipped into sleepy dusk
And it's not very likely that we'll see it again
Out one day, walking one day
Out one day with you, hallelujah
We found a wood, we unfound a wood
And then we cried, oh no
Please tell me, will we ever find it again?
In the depths of Trolley Wood, do Trolleys still drive?
Gone for the day to the Trolley Wood
I'm gone for the day to the Trolley Wood
The Trolley Wood is taking me away
Lyrics submitted by ThreeMilesDown
Trolley Wood Lyrics as written by Jonathan Wilson Chauntelle Dupree
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i think it's about a couple finding this fantastic place to escape to but they're afraid they will never see again. Like almost all of Eisley's songs, this one is particularly symbolic. I love songs like that, one's that aren't literal and aren't all "oh, i love you baby, you're so hot, oh let's have sex." That's wat I love about Eisley
^ Ditto
this song reminds me of palestine, texas.
and tyler.
which are pretty close to each other. and tyler is of course where they're from.
but whatever
now that i think of it it does sound like Palestine, i live in Dallas and i've been to Palestine.
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i think its about remembering a place in your life whether it's just you or it's with a person, then wanting to go back to that place and wondering if maybe you'll ever have it again.. idk if that made any sense. love the song. love eisley.
I think it's about finding something, and loving it and wanting to keep it with you forever, but have to let it go. I like the meaning about the childhood thing I couldn't agree more. lovely song, just lovely.
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