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"
Well I been pushed to the edge,
By my head ache blues.
And I got pulled by the pull of the tide.
I got stripped of my soul,
Standing in my shoes,
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Since the day you been gone,
I cannot keep from crying.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
I sent signals and signs,
From a mountainside
Now I'm gonna try this old microphone light
Now I'm callin' out your name on this radio campaign.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Since the day you've been gone
I cannot keep from crying.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
By my head ache blues.
And I got pulled by the pull of the tide.
I got stripped of my soul,
Standing in my shoes,
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Since the day you been gone,
I cannot keep from crying.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
I sent signals and signs,
From a mountainside
Now I'm gonna try this old microphone light
Now I'm callin' out your name on this radio campaign.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind
Since the day you've been gone
I cannot keep from crying.
Come back, come back
My little peace of mind.
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Simple but great. Songs like this one make me wonder why no one I know has heard of M. Ward. I just don't really understand why he's so unknown and James Blunt is topping the charts.
I wonder if this song is an explanation of why so much of M. Ward's music is based on older types of songs.
The first stanzas are about a loss of innocence: "Well I been pushed to the edge", "I got stripped of my soul".
I'm guessing the type of music that he plays is similar to the type that he listened to as a child (ie, his parent's music). So, now he's trying to bring those feelings back by singing that type of music into a microphone and over the radio. He hopes to bring that "peace of mind" back.
Of course, "my little peace of mind" fits perfectly well for a girl that he lost too. But lots of older songs use the construct of a song about a relationship to talk about other subjects.
I like it better that way, rhymeswithorange, and I think M. Ward likes it too. I like that he's my little secret.
I agree, this song is amazing. I guess it never got on the radio, or one could ask if indeed his radio campaign was successful (of course, he doesn't actually call out her (or his, to be fair) name, so it's not clear the campaign is genuine; or, maybe the campaign itself is a different song of his).
Anyway I think the lyric is "Now I'm gonna try this old microphone line" (rather than "... light"). But I could be wrong.
I believe the campaign is to a piece of himself lost or buried long ago. Fulfillment and peace is only possible when that piece is recognized and embraced. That is what I sing when I sing the song...Listening to more of his music, I suspect the campaign successful.