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"
Maybe it’s not what I say
But what you hear
And maybe it’s not how I speak
But how you listen
Let’s move to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
In a quiet room I can feel my heart
I can hear it beating, and I feel so small
Life could be over in a moment
Yeah
Let’s sail to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
If only you and I could walk through a window
While the world and time stand still
And live enough for two lifetime and never age a day
Let’s fly to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s swim to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s move to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
When you see the stars at night. Zuigia
Do you even have to ask why? Zuigia
When you see the moon at night. Zuigian
Do you even have to ask yourself why?
How could you deny
Let’s stay in Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s stay in Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
But what you hear
And maybe it’s not how I speak
But how you listen
Let’s move to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
In a quiet room I can feel my heart
I can hear it beating, and I feel so small
Life could be over in a moment
Yeah
Let’s sail to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
If only you and I could walk through a window
While the world and time stand still
And live enough for two lifetime and never age a day
Let’s fly to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s swim to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s move to Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
When you see the stars at night. Zuigia
Do you even have to ask why? Zuigia
When you see the moon at night. Zuigian
Do you even have to ask yourself why?
How could you deny
Let’s stay in Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Let’s stay in Zuigia blue clouds white skies
See a man galloping by
Lyrics submitted by The_Grey_Walrus
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