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"
Where O where have you been my love?
Where O where can you be?
It's been so long, since the moon has gone.
0 what a wreck you've made me.
Are you there over the ocean?
Are you there, up in the sky?
Until the return of my love
This lullaby
My Hope is on the horizon
Every face, it's your eyes i can see
I plead, i pray through each night & day
Our Embrace is only a dream.
As sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she'd left, I'd only begun this lullaby
Where O where can you be?
It's been so long, since the moon has gone.
0 what a wreck you've made me.
Are you there over the ocean?
Are you there, up in the sky?
Until the return of my love
This lullaby
My Hope is on the horizon
Every face, it's your eyes i can see
I plead, i pray through each night & day
Our Embrace is only a dream.
As sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she'd left, I'd only begun this lullaby
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Well Joshy, I think the 3rd verse goes something like this... "my hope is on the horizon" ...his hope is fading like the sun going down on the horizon "Every face your eyes I can see"... he sees her in everyone he looks at. "I plead and prey, through each night and day" but alas, " Our embrace is only a dream".
He is really pining for this woman but all he has left is "This lullaby "
I think it is quite sad actually
Everyone's missing the last line in this song: "When you left I'd only begun this lullaby"
In other words, she's been gone from his life (on account of a voyage, death, break-up, it's a bit ambiguous in that regard) for mere minutes, and already he's looking at faces, searching for her again. The build up of the song is supposed to make you think she's been gone for quite some time, but the line at the end twists it, revealing the listener's assumptions aren't correct.
The lines about the ocean and horizon make me think this song is possibly from the POV of a sailor, leaving his woman behind at home - which could be analogous to the life of a touring musician.
omg this song has been out for ages, and no one has noticed. this lullaby song is the best on the cd, wonderful song, and has been on here for ages. i think it is about someones love has left them. and (im guessing its in a guys point of view) his singing it like she is lost, and that he can't find her. that his a wreck since shes been gone, she made him one by leaving. the third verse stumps me. 'My hope is on the horizon Every face your eyes I can see I plead and prey, though each night and day Our embrace is only a dream.' i think it might be that only in his dreams are they together.
i don't know, im just starting everyone off to write about this wonderfull song!
thanks i see it now
This sounds like something of Lenard Cohen's
Personally reminded me of Tom Waits.
But it's pure Mark Lanegan,...
With Josh Homme Playing the guitar..
This is a great song, it really sets a tone for the rest of the album. And if my thinking is right here, I would say that the whole album is in the view point of some guy and about what some girl has done to him. How does that sound?
What a simple, yet beautiful song. As for the rest of the album, it's pretty disturbing.
Or at least I thought so
my theory: They "made love" she went away, promising to come back, or somthing equally as stupid. Or she may have died "Are you there up in the sky? Until the return of my love, This lullaby." And he waits for her, and can't stop thinking about her etc "And sure as days come from moments Each hour becomes a life's time" he wastes his life away thinking/waiting for her. And then dies.
Yeah... Thats pretty much my theory.