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"
What of all the talk
Things he said
All that stayed bottled in your heart
And you thought
Bottled in your heartache
I’ll fix that
Want me, we can make a start
Your sad little heart felt closer
The feud was it needed time
He was a man etcetera
Must be held a different kind
Oh unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the street
Time keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
Heart
Is a holy painter
It fills in what our thoughts create
Likeness of the devil
Or an angel’s come to stay
The distance says now
You are older
And the dark you know
Surely you have been touched this time
There’s no way to let him go
And oh
The unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the streets
Time keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
And the moon is a haunted woman
With the look of a vacant dream
And she says
Don’t, don’t lose him, don’t you lose him
He’s the soul of your everything
And oh
The unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the streets
Time that keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
Hmmm hmmm hmmm
Things he said
All that stayed bottled in your heart
And you thought
Bottled in your heartache
I’ll fix that
Want me, we can make a start
Your sad little heart felt closer
The feud was it needed time
He was a man etcetera
Must be held a different kind
Oh unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the street
Time keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
Heart
Is a holy painter
It fills in what our thoughts create
Likeness of the devil
Or an angel’s come to stay
The distance says now
You are older
And the dark you know
Surely you have been touched this time
There’s no way to let him go
And oh
The unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the streets
Time keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
And the moon is a haunted woman
With the look of a vacant dream
And she says
Don’t, don’t lose him, don’t you lose him
He’s the soul of your everything
And oh
The unholy wind is blind
Roses winter through the streets
Time that keeps no trace of us
Still feels like a song so sweet
Like a song so sweet
Hmmm hmmm hmmm
Lyrics submitted by evergreen
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Does anyone have, or knows where to get, the piano sheet music for this song? I really need it for an exam! Anthing transcribed welcomed with open arms! Thank you x