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"
Forget about the fight to wear the crown of scars
Cause you've already won
Forget the pain and leave tears behind you
Bury underneath your feet the remains
Of what's been left behind
Cause you have got a long, long way to run
But now you dance the rest of the way
And you don't look back
Can you hear that angel singing
As you rise
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
Will you fall against the wall that you have built
With your own hands?
When you trip upon the thorns that you have tied
Your legs together with
When you walk upon thin ice you know you should
Not be walking
Why do you wonder why that you fell through?
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
And now you laugh
And your tears
Smile down at your fears
From where you are
From way up here
You know nothing's ever looked so good
Nothing ever looked so good
But now you dance the rest of the way
You don't look back
Can you hear that angel singing
As you rise
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
Cause you've already won
Forget the pain and leave tears behind you
Bury underneath your feet the remains
Of what's been left behind
Cause you have got a long, long way to run
But now you dance the rest of the way
And you don't look back
Can you hear that angel singing
As you rise
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
Will you fall against the wall that you have built
With your own hands?
When you trip upon the thorns that you have tied
Your legs together with
When you walk upon thin ice you know you should
Not be walking
Why do you wonder why that you fell through?
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
And now you laugh
And your tears
Smile down at your fears
From where you are
From way up here
You know nothing's ever looked so good
Nothing ever looked so good
But now you dance the rest of the way
You don't look back
Can you hear that angel singing
As you rise
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
Now you fly away
And you don't look down now
And you laugh til you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground
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Or maybe it's about struggles and dealing with them, and you finally figured things out and going on to another step in life.
Very creative song off of "Diff's Lucky Day". One of my favorites from their demo CD.
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