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"
Sullen hours of the evening
Wait, I heard a bird, it's singing your song
Even though you didn't have one.
I can't help but think of you
Why do I bother?
Are we speaking the same language?
Missed communication going round and round
Spinning back around.
I need to know how you feel.
Why don't you come back with me tonight?
Think I like you
Why did you come back with me tonight?
Is this love, or just infatuation for you?
Sleeping in my arms tonight
Wait a minute
I never told you how I feel
Probably because I don't really understand you.
Spin!
Swim!
Scream! [x3]
When I think of you
I get tired
I get tired
Can I let you in, let you in?
Can I really trust you, I don't know?
I want to fly now.
Think to myself.
You should say what you mean.
We are now
You were
When you were
When you were
When you were
When you were
We are
We are more
We are no more
I'll take her there
Until she don't wanna be with me
Painted flowers in the restaurant
The air there wasn't clean
I'm missing you, that's all I know
"Lights reflect the water
Wind blows quietly
The water doesn't care.
It's dark and the lake is frozen
Wait for something wild.
The trees are dead and dries out
Wait for something wild..."
Do we sail?
Do we try to sail?
In the lake it has a beauty
That in her I also see.
Well I thought it was a strange world.
Still do,
Too many making my confusion
Just where are we now?
I've been dreaming of a beautiful world,
Its could be someday, maybe with you.
Are you an illusion?
Talk with me again one day
Do you ever make sense of yourself?
You were always in the back of my mind
Thinkin' of you
I could never understand why
Now I know I always want to be there for you.
May not be the same as before
At least I'm with you
You never let me know how you feel
Probably because I always confuse you.
[Mikee Outro]
Spin!
Swim!
Scream!
Wait, I heard a bird, it's singing your song
Even though you didn't have one.
I can't help but think of you
Why do I bother?
Are we speaking the same language?
Missed communication going round and round
Spinning back around.
I need to know how you feel.
Why don't you come back with me tonight?
Think I like you
Why did you come back with me tonight?
Is this love, or just infatuation for you?
Sleeping in my arms tonight
Wait a minute
I never told you how I feel
Probably because I don't really understand you.
Spin!
Swim!
Scream! [x3]
When I think of you
I get tired
I get tired
Can I let you in, let you in?
Can I really trust you, I don't know?
I want to fly now.
Think to myself.
You should say what you mean.
We are now
You were
When you were
When you were
When you were
When you were
We are
We are more
We are no more
I'll take her there
Until she don't wanna be with me
Painted flowers in the restaurant
The air there wasn't clean
I'm missing you, that's all I know
"Lights reflect the water
Wind blows quietly
The water doesn't care.
It's dark and the lake is frozen
Wait for something wild.
The trees are dead and dries out
Wait for something wild..."
Do we sail?
Do we try to sail?
In the lake it has a beauty
That in her I also see.
Well I thought it was a strange world.
Still do,
Too many making my confusion
Just where are we now?
I've been dreaming of a beautiful world,
Its could be someday, maybe with you.
Are you an illusion?
Talk with me again one day
Do you ever make sense of yourself?
You were always in the back of my mind
Thinkin' of you
I could never understand why
Now I know I always want to be there for you.
May not be the same as before
At least I'm with you
You never let me know how you feel
Probably because I always confuse you.
[Mikee Outro]
Spin!
Swim!
Scream!
Lyrics submitted by donniedarko28
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