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"
(Day dream... day dream...)
Day dream...(day dream...)
So many times I've overflowed
So many faces come and go
I play my cards into the sun
And try to work out
What you are to me
To me
Been here before
A million open doors
Only one will set me free
So I fall against the wall
And try to work out
What you are to me, to me, to me, to me...
To me...
Inside my eyes
The answer lies
Something I can't see
Another day
Another way
It's the same to me, to me
To me..., to me..., to me...
(what's wrong?)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
Day dream...(day dream...)
So many times I've overflowed
So many faces come and go
I play my cards into the sun
And try to work out
What you are to me
To me
Been here before
A million open doors
Only one will set me free
So I fall against the wall
And try to work out
What you are to me, to me, to me, to me...
To me...
Inside my eyes
The answer lies
Something I can't see
Another day
Another way
It's the same to me, to me
To me..., to me..., to me...
(what's wrong?)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
To me... (to me...)
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What Are You to Me? Lyrics as written by Antony Genn Richard File
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The lyrics are addressing the significance of another person. The lyricist does not seem to have a great affection for the person. There is not a passage addressing this, he or she is only working out what the other is to his or her person.
Also, the lyricist seems to have an excessive amount of free time (in my opinion). This can be shown when questioning what a million open doors are. There are not a million open doors to address, and he says that he has been there before. Also how does one overflow, play cards into the sun, or have answers in his or her eyes? Again this is about the status of a relationship. The rest of the song is not applicable to a real life scenario.
To me this song is about what happens when you get to the point of reflecting over past experiences. While daydreaming he’s reminiscing about his life. He’s had many emotional experiences good and bad with many different types of people. But while basking in the sun he’s trying to give or attach meaning to the people in his life. He’s been in this situation before; there are many answers but only one solution but gets frustrated trying to find it. He knows the answer is there but still doesn’t see it, all the while giving up today and fighting tomorrow in possible hope of another experience allowing new perspectives. However he’s already been down that road leaving him to feel that his efforts are a bit futile. Then a woman ask “what’s wrong?” and the “to me” starts to sound a little different.
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I'd also like to hear your thoughts about what happens at the end. That'd be great. Thanks.
and what the "answer" could be possibly be.