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 gravity is dead
And the airplanes fly around
Above the roaming bees
And the buzzing town
Above the tattered flags
And the rotten show posters
Above the clubs and microphones
Above the jealous mouths
That's where you found yourself
Riding into the sun
On a raft made for one
Red painted radio
Towers sing you songs
Not, not that something's wrong
You've got I'm in your head
But doesn't it get lonely
Riding up there to the sun
On a single raft for one
Don't you wish for someone
To pull you on a string
Down from atmospheres
Down into a clearing
To kiss and box your ears?
That's where you found yourself
Riding into the sun
On a raft made for one
And the airplanes fly around
Above the roaming bees
And the buzzing town
Above the tattered flags
And the rotten show posters
Above the clubs and microphones
Above the jealous mouths
That's where you found yourself
Riding into the sun
On a raft made for one
Red painted radio
Towers sing you songs
Not, not that something's wrong
You've got I'm in your head
But doesn't it get lonely
Riding up there to the sun
On a single raft for one
Don't you wish for someone
To pull you on a string
Down from atmospheres
Down into a clearing
To kiss and box your ears?
That's where you found yourself
Riding into the sun
On a raft made for one
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I think a lyric correction is in order.
I believe it is "You've got it in your head" instead of "You've got I'm in your head"
Beautiful song as all Laura's songs are!
This song seems to be about finding a place where you can get away from it all but then you realize that being away from it all is the last thing you wanted. You may find peace but you also find loneliness.
Then again another interpretation is that the person in the song is lost in their solitude waiting for the right person to bring them out of it. In that case the final verse is really sad because he/she ended up 'where gravity is dead', perhaps.
I love this song. That said, I'm a bit confused about her use of the term "box your ears." The only meaning I know of that phrase is as a physical punishment (hitting the ears). It perplexes me every time I hear it, but maybe I'm just ignorant.
I think it refering to the distant nature of whomever she's writing about. She's asking if they don't wish that someone would ground them, be it through affection or a smack uptop the head when they need it.
From the imagery in this song i always get the feeling its about a musician finding fame, working their way "up" so to speak, (Riding into the sun) from other smalltime acts (hence repeated use of "above" in the first verse) and other musicians being envious "Above the clubs and microphones Above the jealous mouths"
and also the downsides of being out on the road touring and being away from loved ones "That's where you found yourself Riding into the sun On a raft made for one"
and finding that it isnt all its cut out to be and its a lonely place to be. But doesn't it get lonely Riding up there to the sun On a single raft for one Don't you wish for someone
Thats just the impression it gives me anyway, such a beautiful song and amazng lyrics