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"
Here we go
They're back again
Look alive , warn your friends
We are warm and we are safe
Enjoy it while you can before
Things change
We have got to take cover,
Brother
We have got to take cover,
Brother
Lie down in a field if you can
Look at the night sky
Oh, where does it end?
Sometimes it hurts when you
Care about me
But it's going to hurt more when
They take you away from me
We have go to take cover, brother
We have got to take cover, brother
Here we go again
Oh midnight knocks!
Oh explosions!
Maybe it's all made up in our heads
This happens to me when I'm bored
Or depressed
Here is the best part of the song
Where I admit that I might be wrong
Because if they are good and if
They are right
Then they'll have their rapture one
Of these nights
But if they are wrong
They're back again
Look alive , warn your friends
We are warm and we are safe
Enjoy it while you can before
Things change
We have got to take cover,
Brother
We have got to take cover,
Brother
Lie down in a field if you can
Look at the night sky
Oh, where does it end?
Sometimes it hurts when you
Care about me
But it's going to hurt more when
They take you away from me
We have go to take cover, brother
We have got to take cover, brother
Here we go again
Oh midnight knocks!
Oh explosions!
Maybe it's all made up in our heads
This happens to me when I'm bored
Or depressed
Here is the best part of the song
Where I admit that I might be wrong
Because if they are good and if
They are right
Then they'll have their rapture one
Of these nights
But if they are wrong
Lyrics submitted by nevermind_03__
Brother Lyrics as written by Olivier Lambin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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It's about bigotry and persecution by fundamentalist christians. She begins by warning that just because the current political situation is fairly tolerant, that doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever. She forsees being on the run and struggling against an intolerant state. The "Brother" part is interesting. It could, as others have suggested, be a deliberately non-sexual/romantic term meaning "brother in arms", e.g. her allies in this political struggle, or it could be a reference to "big brother", e.g. the oppressive state which is persecuting her. "Midnight knocks!" brings to mind secret police, knocking on people's doors in the middle of the night and making them "disappear", and "explosions!" as people resist them.
She then admits that maybe this is all just a bleak fantasy that occupies her more pessimistic moments. She says that perhaps instead the Christians are right and the "Rapture" will occur. This is a reference to the belief amongst some Christians that at some point God will take up all the truly faithful into Heaven, leaving only non-Christians left on the Earth. However, if it doesn't happen, she fears that her dark daydream will come true...
JonR, I agree with you mostly. When I first heard the song I thought of the rapture that you explain in your second paragraph; however, I found no meaning in the song that correlated with bigotry or persecution. I do know that christians believe there will be some who aren't christians when the rapture occurs but will become christians afterwards and those "left behind" will be persecuted as their beliefs will upset the popular government. My thoughts coincide with yours, but for an opposite outcome, I thought rather, it was about the political state currently and how it is mainly tolerant but according to christian belief it won't stay that way. Here, as you, I believe "Brother" refers to the government and also think it refers to those left on earth, after the rapture. The "midnight knocks" and "explosions" refer to the new government tactics that many will experience here on earth if they don't adhere to the new government rule. but only the songwriter knows truly, eh? great song...