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"
(Shh, do you want to hear a secret?
(I know one)
In this place
There's a bone in thigh
Felt a change
Where the links bent right
Find a name
In the placeless age
Girls and pain
And your windowpane
Isolate
From a hundred friends
Wave them on
As the childhood ends
Turn it fast
As one mild day steals
Turn one's soul
Into twenty years
In spirit they've vanished
And they'll show you why
I'll make 'em pay elder
Lift my spite in time
If we were just dolphins
In the sea air fly
It's hard to just kiss our
Child games goodbye
It's hard to just kiss our
Child games goodbye
(You just messed the whole thing up!)
(I know one)
In this place
There's a bone in thigh
Felt a change
Where the links bent right
Find a name
In the placeless age
Girls and pain
And your windowpane
Isolate
From a hundred friends
Wave them on
As the childhood ends
Turn it fast
As one mild day steals
Turn one's soul
Into twenty years
In spirit they've vanished
And they'll show you why
I'll make 'em pay elder
Lift my spite in time
If we were just dolphins
In the sea air fly
It's hard to just kiss our
Child games goodbye
It's hard to just kiss our
Child games goodbye
(You just messed the whole thing up!)
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This is such a gorgeous song. It's a shame they made it so hard to listen to...
Listen with your mind, not your ears. The beautiful buzzing fills your head, like the resonate buzzing of insects in a prehistoric forest.
This song awakens something encoded deep into human DNA, a memory of where life began, in the hazy, deep, and dark forests of our ancestors. It is utterly amazing and beautiful to imagine this untouched, pure world.
Dang I'm not sure I'd have been able to listen to any other AnCo if this was the first song of theirs I ever listened to. Kudos. Also holy crap I just listened to this song on high with my expensive head phones and figured out the beginning. It is "Shhh...do you wanna hear a secret? I know one." I'm pretty sure that's it. Maybe you all knew this already so if I haven't impressed anyone on the innernettes at least I can take comfort in knowing that I impressed myself. Furthermore, I'd like to back up my friend tonycollective and say that it's definitely "if we were just dolphins" and not "if we would just dump in." Even if I'm wrong dolphins is way cooler. Loveee this album.
I can't listen to this song with my dog around.
And you're in their pain
and your windowpane?
Enters and flies
time flies?
im only just replying on yours because its the top comment<br /> but it definatly says 'if we were just dolphins in the sea' <br /> not 'if we would just dump it'<br /> im pretty sure about this one..
some spots are so hard to hear through the distortion on his voice i think i need to be on something.
Nope
this song is beautiful, i don't see why everyone says it's a pain to listen to
listening to this song and reading that, i can honestly say that is one of the most beautiful things i've heard.
lastdinosaur that is perfect
This song is one of my fav not just from the cd but in general from these guys