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"
You spoon water like love and I will take it
If you can take it
This is how we know
This is how we go
This is how we know
I don't know what to say
When you're so far from me I can barely make you
I count two two three
Breathe two three
You spoon water like love and I will take it
If you can take it
You spin circle in verse and I will take it
If you can take it
This is how we go
Soft and slowly, don't you know me
Know I count two, I count for you
Given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three, breathe two three
You walk alone, you talk in code
It's a light I can't decipher
But eyes shut is somehow enough
Under trick lighting
Under trick eyelids
Given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three
Breathe two three
You spoon water like love and I will take it
If you can take it
This is how we know
This is how we go
This is how we know
If you can take it
This is how we know
This is how we go
This is how we know
I don't know what to say
When you're so far from me I can barely make you
I count two two three
Breathe two three
You spoon water like love and I will take it
If you can take it
You spin circle in verse and I will take it
If you can take it
This is how we go
Soft and slowly, don't you know me
Know I count two, I count for you
Given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three, breathe two three
You walk alone, you talk in code
It's a light I can't decipher
But eyes shut is somehow enough
Under trick lighting
Under trick eyelids
Given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three
Breathe two three
You spoon water like love and I will take it
If you can take it
This is how we know
This is how we go
This is how we know
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i love this song! its so good
This whole time I thought he was singing, "You spill water like love." This makes more sense. I fell in love with them when I heard this song.
This song is missing about half of the lyrics.
the bass line in this song is sick
i thought it was "spill" too. i like that better.
you spoon water like love and I will take it if you can take it
this is how we know this is how we go this is how we know
I don't know what to say when you're so far from me I can barely make you I count two two three breathe two three
you spoon water like love and I will take it if you can take it
you spin circle in verse and I will take it if you can take it
this is how we go ... ...
soft and slowly, don't you know me know I count two, I count for you given the thought I would have you again I count two two three, breathe two three you walk alone, you talk in code it's a light I can't decipher but eyes shut is somehow enough under trick lighting under trick eyelids
given the thought I would have you again I count two two three breathe two three
you spoon water like love and I will take it if you can take it
this is how we know this is how we go this is how we know
it's "you spill"
it's "you spill"
The first time I saw and heard this song on Youtube I fell in love with it, with them. It makes me lose my mind
somehow, the repetition in this song is what makes it so damn catchy.