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"
The heart breaking makes a sound
I never knew could be
So beautiful and loud
Fury filled and we
Collide
So courageous until now
Fumbling and scared
So afraid You'll find me out
Alone here with my doubt
Here it comes
A beautiful collision
Is happening now
There seems no end to where You begin
And there I am now
You and I
Collide
Something circling inside
Spaciously you fly
Infinite and wide
Like the moon and sky
Collide
Here it comes
A beautiful collision
Is happening now
There seems no end to where You begin
There I am now
You and I
Collide
Yeah-e-yeah-e-yeah
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Collide
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
You and I
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
You and I
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Feel it coming on
Feel it coming on, now
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
I never knew could be
So beautiful and loud
Fury filled and we
Collide
So courageous until now
Fumbling and scared
So afraid You'll find me out
Alone here with my doubt
Here it comes
A beautiful collision
Is happening now
There seems no end to where You begin
And there I am now
You and I
Collide
Something circling inside
Spaciously you fly
Infinite and wide
Like the moon and sky
Collide
Here it comes
A beautiful collision
Is happening now
There seems no end to where You begin
There I am now
You and I
Collide
Yeah-e-yeah-e-yeah
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Collide
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
You and I
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
You and I
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
Feel it coming on
Feel it coming on, now
Here it comes, now
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes, now
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I beleive the whole "There seems no end to where you begin..." is talking about becoming one with Christ. A collision between Christ and you. I don't really think there is any meaning to romance or the opposite sex.
Ok...it's definitely not about romance! Read the album notes:
”For the past two years, I have ended most nights in concert with the following statement: ‘When our depravity meets His divinity, it is a beautiful collision.’ This recording is about that collision”
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This song to me shows the "Collision" between love for christ and love for the opposite sex. "There seems no end to where you begin" shows to me how it seems like you can never really get over an ex. "So afraid You'll find me out" you wanna be a good christian, but you need romance.
I'm not sure though, its just my interperetation...
i agree with OnDistantShores.
This song described in three main Biblical principles:
Depravity, Unity with Christ, and the Holy Spirit within Us.
Just a side note the first line is "The Breaking Makes a Sound" with the "The" drawn out and yeah OnDistantShores is right about the song.
just heard it for the first time tonight. crowder knows how to put my heart back in the right place. :)
it means that david (or someone else maybe) is starting to maybe know the true meaning of God and taking him in his heart.
it means that david (or someone else maybe) is starting to maybe know the true meaning of God and taking him in his heart.
I personally think that this song is talking about someone who is so close to coming to know God, but is unsure if they want to make the commitment and is "scared."
"The heart breaking makes a sound.... so beautiful.... weak" its talking about how humans are really nothing until God and them collide.
"So courageous till now" is talking about someone being so brave until they finally make the move towards God.
The end result is "A beautiful collision" is Jesus and the person colliding into one making it beautiful.
One of my faves!!!