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"
Tell me what you're thinking baby
Your heart's beating faster than mine
And I know something's going on in your life
In your life
Your life
You were the girl I wanted to cry with
You were the girl I wanted to die with
You were the boy who turned into the man
Broke my heart and let go off my hand
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain
You think you know about life
You think you know about love
But when you put your hands inside me
It doesn't even feel like I'm being touched
You were the boy I wanted to cry with
You were the boy I wanted to die with
You've moved further from my side, year by year
While still making love dutifully sincere
But as silent as the car lights that move across this room
As cold as our bodies silhouetted by the moon
And I would lie awake and wonder
Is it just me or is this the way love is supposed to be?
Tell me what you told him baby
My heart's beating out of time with my mind
And I know something's going wrong in our lives
I just wanted somebody to caress
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to undress
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to bless
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to possess
This young girl
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain
Your heart's beating faster than mine
And I know something's going on in your life
In your life
Your life
You were the girl I wanted to cry with
You were the girl I wanted to die with
You were the boy who turned into the man
Broke my heart and let go off my hand
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain
You think you know about life
You think you know about love
But when you put your hands inside me
It doesn't even feel like I'm being touched
You were the boy I wanted to cry with
You were the boy I wanted to die with
You've moved further from my side, year by year
While still making love dutifully sincere
But as silent as the car lights that move across this room
As cold as our bodies silhouetted by the moon
And I would lie awake and wonder
Is it just me or is this the way love is supposed to be?
Tell me what you told him baby
My heart's beating out of time with my mind
And I know something's going wrong in our lives
I just wanted somebody to caress
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to undress
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to bless
This damsel in distress
I just wanted somebody to possess
This young girl
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain
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have you tried searching for 'the the'?
@partenopei One of the bands whose name dooms them to obscurity in the age of the internet.
"Is it just me? Or is this the way that love is supposed to be?"
She's asking the same thing twice, here. If the answer to #2 is 'yes', then the answer to #1 is also 'yes'.
Just sayin.
I agree it is one of my favourite songs by The The. Great production and brilliant duet with Sinead O'Connor.Love the way it builds up towards the end. It never sounds dated.
Why has nobody commented on this song, the greatest song by The The? What a bunch of losers you all are!
Anyways, it's pretty self-explanatory, the end of a love relationship, when all that is felt is emtpyness. And Sinead O'conner sings as part of the duet
c'mon people, get with the program!!!
why did it take you so long to comment then? loser!
Don't even think it's in their top 10. Though i do like it, despite O'Conner.