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"
If I were a mirror
I'd look right deep inside myself
And if things were much clearer
I'd see a brighter day
And if you were my lover
I'd wrap your locks around my wrists
And shake beneath the shudders
That turn to black your faith
For you know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles seem to long to try
I've got a love
She is my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood, and hate, and anger
And let it go
If I were the summer
I'd give my light to all the world
And wake you in your slumber
So you could see my eyes
And as your feelings crumbled
And all the words I keep will twirl
I'll catch you in your tumble
And kiss your face goodbye
For you know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles just seem to long to try
But I've got a love
She is my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood, and hate, and anger
And let it go
If I were made of water
I'd slip my bones into the cracks
And freeze when it got colder
To hold the walls in true
And when it came to summer
I'd slip my soul into the yard
And give life to the flowers
That I never gave to you
But I know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles can cut you down to size
But I had a love
She was my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood you never gave her
And let it go
I'd look right deep inside myself
And if things were much clearer
I'd see a brighter day
And if you were my lover
I'd wrap your locks around my wrists
And shake beneath the shudders
That turn to black your faith
For you know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles seem to long to try
I've got a love
She is my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood, and hate, and anger
And let it go
If I were the summer
I'd give my light to all the world
And wake you in your slumber
So you could see my eyes
And as your feelings crumbled
And all the words I keep will twirl
I'll catch you in your tumble
And kiss your face goodbye
For you know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles just seem to long to try
But I've got a love
She is my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood, and hate, and anger
And let it go
If I were made of water
I'd slip my bones into the cracks
And freeze when it got colder
To hold the walls in true
And when it came to summer
I'd slip my soul into the yard
And give life to the flowers
That I never gave to you
But I know that life is neverending
Sometimes the miles can cut you down to size
But I had a love
She was my anchor
She held me down
And saved my soul
So take the blood you never gave her
And let it go
Lyrics submitted by micolithe
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