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"
Things have been getting real heavy these days
The media the system
the people chasing pay
Somebody's got a rifle he won't turn the other cheek
Now its his turn
Things have been getting real hectic these days
An eye for an eye
A spade is a spade
They're shooting him down and he's running away
That was their turn
I believe in
The same thing that makes the night become day
Tide and the water
Sons and the daughters
Can't hide it can't fight it
Love
I'm a say it again
It's the same thing that makes the moonlight
Meet up with the sunlight
Can't fight it can't buy it
Love, I'm a say it again
When cut deep the same blood we bleed
We're not immune to addiction or disease
Got violent deaths in our family trees
Now it's our turn
Things have been seeming real ready these days
From the North to the South to the East to the West
Happiness will you put it to your chest
When it's your turn
The media the system
the people chasing pay
Somebody's got a rifle he won't turn the other cheek
Now its his turn
Things have been getting real hectic these days
An eye for an eye
A spade is a spade
They're shooting him down and he's running away
That was their turn
I believe in
The same thing that makes the night become day
Tide and the water
Sons and the daughters
Can't hide it can't fight it
Love
I'm a say it again
It's the same thing that makes the moonlight
Meet up with the sunlight
Can't fight it can't buy it
Love, I'm a say it again
When cut deep the same blood we bleed
We're not immune to addiction or disease
Got violent deaths in our family trees
Now it's our turn
Things have been seeming real ready these days
From the North to the South to the East to the West
Happiness will you put it to your chest
When it's your turn
Lyrics submitted by pnkseashel
Nite Becomes Day Lyrics as written by Clarence Greenwood
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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I'm thinking this song means that things will always be hard and keep getting hard, but as long as you pull yourself together every time and keep your feet grounded you'll get right through it.
I'm pretty sure the lyrics are "Happiness is a bullet to your chest when it's your turn."
This song basically means society as a whole has lost all sense of morals and justice but he's a spiritual guy and he believes that in the end we can't fight the love. (same thing that makes the night become day = God) ..not exactly the christian God but a higher powerful being/force
Things have been getting real heavy these days The media the system the people chasing pay Somebody's got a rifle he won't turn the other cheek Now its his turn
(All people care about is money, the media and the system sucks. But hold up! Someone has a gun, and he's not willing to "turn the other cheek" as in calm down. He's compelled to solve his problems with violence.
Things have been getting real hectic these days An eye for an eye A spade is a spade They're shooting him down and he's running away That was their turn
(He's saying that there is so much violence in the world it's crazy. That people always have to "get even" thus, the "eye for an eye" phrase. The man with the rifle had "his turn" to be violent; now the police have "their turn" to shoot him down in retaliation.)
I believe in The same thing that makes the night become day Tide and the water Sons and the daughters Can't hide it can't fight it Love I'm a say it again
(I mean, love could be a symbol for God, since I don't think love can make the night become day. So yeah, I'ma go with God. Love=God.)
It's the same thing that makes the moonlight Meet up with the sunlight Can't fight it can't buy it Love... I'm a say it again
(Once again, Love=God. He's talking about peace. He wants everyone to chill the f#ck out and relax; love each other. I swear, if everyone was as laid back as Cope, there would be war AT ALL.)
When cut deep the same blood we bleed We're not immune to addiction or disease Got violent deaths in our family trees Now it's our turn
(We're all the friggin' same. When we're cut, we bled the same red blood, we all can get addicted to something, and we're not immune to tragedy (violent deaths). It seems like a TAKE THAT to racists, sexists, and anyone else who discriminates. The "now it's our turn" is pretty much saying we're going to go through the same cycle of ignorance of our ancestors. Clever, Cope.)
Things have been seeming real ready these days From the North to the South to the East to the West Happiness will you put it to your chest When it's your turn
(At the end, Cope is pretty much asking the LISTENER not to be violent. "Happiness, will you put it in your chest when it's your turn?" Will you put love/god in your heart when ever you have a "turn" or opportunity to be violent. Will you turn the other cheek?"
Classic Cope. It's such a shame that people here ignore some of his more lyrically brilliant songs. I just figured this song out TODAY, and I've been listening to it for close to a year. Yeah, it sounds good, but Cope is actually one of those few artists that incorporate a meaning into their songs. Appreciate.