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"
And I don't think we'll get out of this hell
But the time here with you has been nice
A cold love bloody knuckle trigger finger riding on the edge of mind
A salute to the end of the world
And a beautiful end for you girl
Because all night I've been picking fights with the fur men
And the bar stool kings
And when it sounds right I'll bring them down to their knees son
And with the glorious red, we'll be off with their heads
Phantoms in the courtyard waiting on the breeze to float after me
To a chamber of wailing ferns
The calm yellow air and the dark woolen skies say our villains will arise
Oh haunted by two's they wake by you
But it's alright
In a scissor hell
And it's alright to fall deep in love
Because all night
I'll be following matches into the dawn light
where I melt you
You gotta pull stars down to be someone
And when you've chemi-claimed the sun you gotta
When oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself
You got pull stars down to be someone
And when you chemi-claimed the sun you got it
And when oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself
And sometimes in a silver hell
You gotta search for gold
And in the right light
We're just angels with enemies
But the time here with you has been nice
A cold love bloody knuckle trigger finger riding on the edge of mind
A salute to the end of the world
And a beautiful end for you girl
Because all night I've been picking fights with the fur men
And the bar stool kings
And when it sounds right I'll bring them down to their knees son
And with the glorious red, we'll be off with their heads
Phantoms in the courtyard waiting on the breeze to float after me
To a chamber of wailing ferns
The calm yellow air and the dark woolen skies say our villains will arise
Oh haunted by two's they wake by you
But it's alright
In a scissor hell
And it's alright to fall deep in love
Because all night
I'll be following matches into the dawn light
where I melt you
You gotta pull stars down to be someone
And when you've chemi-claimed the sun you gotta
When oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself
You got pull stars down to be someone
And when you chemi-claimed the sun you got it
And when oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself
And sometimes in a silver hell
You gotta search for gold
And in the right light
We're just angels with enemies
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I think it's about feeling like all the bad things that happen are following you around, but it's still nice going through them with someone you love.
"You gotta pull stars down to be someone, and when you've chemi-claimed the sun you got it, when the oceans fill your life somehow, you gotta break the damn and wave to yourself"
-To me this is like growing up with that person and finding out whatever you want to do in life. It reminds me of that movie What Dreams May Come.
"And i don't think we'll get out of this hell, but the time here with you has been nice"
Watch it and tell me what you think.
its so hard to sing this song haha I don't stop to understand this song yet.but seems complicaded. maybe 'cause i'm Brasilian and I don't understand perfectly inglish. ;)
i love the way this song progresses.