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"
Now I'm just spacing out again
If I try hard enough I'll pretend
That I'm flying above some trees
And they're smiling and waving at me
With the clouds on my back I can see
All the people down there fast asleep
Now I see your house far, far below
So I'll fly down and give you a show
Can you see me through your bedroom window?
Are you waking up your friends to watch with you?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me through your bedroom window?
Are you waking up your friends to watch with you?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me at all?
If I try hard enough I'll pretend
That I'm flying above some trees
And they're smiling and waving at me
With the clouds on my back I can see
All the people down there fast asleep
Now I see your house far, far below
So I'll fly down and give you a show
Can you see me through your bedroom window?
Are you waking up your friends to watch with you?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me through your bedroom window?
Are you waking up your friends to watch with you?
Can you see me at all?
Can you see me at all?
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I like these lyrics.. I haven't heard the song yet though. What it means, um.. the pretending to fly aboe the trees and seeing them all waving back and smiling.. wanting things to be happy, if they're smiling and waving they must be happy. And he sees all the people fast asleep so, maybe they have to be asleep for things to be good. And then at the end, can you see me happy? Can your freinds see it too? Or can you not even see me at all? I dunno... but i like it for sure
i love this song, i'm not so sure what it means but the music is so great, simple and great.
I love the music and how it makes me think I am actually witnessing what is happening in the song. It is a great song though. It's meaning? I'm not sure. Maybe about being and outsider and wondering if people actually know you exist. "Can you see me at all?"
i think it kinda reminds me of ...wishing there was something you could do to impress someone
this song goes with the rest of the songs in the album...the guy is dead and "can you see me at all?" is to his ex girlfriend who he died for. i got a good feeling all the songs on this album are linked together
song is awesome. lasts like a minute, but it makes me smile its like, im gone, but im commin back, whether you want to see me or not.
i think jbo523 is right, if you read the lyrics, all the songs talk about being dead, or heaven, im not sure about the ex-girlfriend part but it makes sense. but this cd has gotten to be one of my favs, i listen to alot harder things- still remains, casey jones, atreyu, as i layd ying, on broken wings, calico system but this has gotten to be on of my favs because he has some of the best lyrics alex varkatzas or atreyu and ben are so close together with writing.
Favourite song in the album... shortest one too, but ya it's just so sweet. And ya it would make sense if was about the guy's death. I mean, the album art and title even goes with the theme.
i like this song...cool drums and yeah its a concept album..he died for his ex because he was a burden and now hes a ghost flying to visit her
I basically agree with everyone. this song is just about him being dead and wanting to be able to be with his girlfriend again. But since he can't, he just dreams about it. "Now I'm just spacing out again, if i try hard enough I pretend..." refers to the fact that the song is like a daydream.
PS...i saw Armor for Sleep play last month and this was the first song. it was just ben onstage and he played the keyboard part by himself. and there was no drums. it was cool to hear it even more simply played.