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"
"it isn't always i am well
for sometimes i am ailing
and yet in steaming night i smile
to downplay this my failing
and make a noise to bury all
of your weeping and your wailing
and then in bed by little light
and closed off from it all
i must try and bring a conscious end to night
and hope that dreams begin to fall
the color of my dreams, they would be you...ruby
oh if i could close my eyes and bring you to me
push your head into
make you not you not you not you but me
and then in dreams i wander free
and see some things i'm meant to see
and sometimes even i see thee
and would the night go on and on
and not tomorrow end at dawn
and whatever mat i lay upon
dissolve
the color of my dreams, if i had dreams, they would be you...ruby
everything i do is done to bring you closer to me
when you sleep your breath it blows right on through me
the color of my dreams, if i had dreams, they would be you...ruby
the color of my dreams, they would be you...ruby
and illness be or wellness thrive
my dream proves i am yet alive"
for sometimes i am ailing
and yet in steaming night i smile
to downplay this my failing
and make a noise to bury all
of your weeping and your wailing
and then in bed by little light
and closed off from it all
i must try and bring a conscious end to night
and hope that dreams begin to fall
the color of my dreams, they would be you...ruby
oh if i could close my eyes and bring you to me
push your head into
make you not you not you not you but me
and then in dreams i wander free
and see some things i'm meant to see
and sometimes even i see thee
and would the night go on and on
and not tomorrow end at dawn
and whatever mat i lay upon
dissolve
the color of my dreams, if i had dreams, they would be you...ruby
everything i do is done to bring you closer to me
when you sleep your breath it blows right on through me
the color of my dreams, if i had dreams, they would be you...ruby
the color of my dreams, they would be you...ruby
and illness be or wellness thrive
my dream proves i am yet alive"
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I'm going out on a limb here, but...
rape?
"and yet in steaming night i smile to downplay this my failing and make a noise to bury all of your weeping and your wailing"
Weeping and wailing... steaming night... you know.
And also, ruby, the color of blood?
I don't know, I'm just guessing. Excellent song.
Heheh. I just realized that it was almost a year ago today that I posted the second comment on this song.
How...sad.
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