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"
[Ramcke, Reshoft]
Thaw hath begun, worship the sun
The giants of ice leave the lande
The scent of the sea, the dashing of the waves
The winde hath broughte to the strande
Put to the sea the dragonships now shall be
Hoist up the sails
The kit is taken aboard
Ready to get throughe the gales
Man the boats, leave the shore far behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth we shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Beneath the star of the northern lande
A son of Odinn was borne
One-eyed father is my guide
For I passed the rite of the Ancient One
I followe the cult like my father did
My first course lies aheade
Now my sworde shalle prove
Whose descendant I am
The foeman's bloode will be shed
Fearless I'm on board
Leave the shore far behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth I shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Behold the horizon, an island is in sighte
We're heading for the shore
Get ready to fighte
Arms are handed over the bloodthirsty horde
Hails shalle be called out
Onward to loot the foreign shore
[Solo: Dave]
Fearless I'm on board
Now leave the shore behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth we shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Thaw hath begun, worship the sun
The giants of ice leave the lande
The scent of the sea, the dashing of the waves
The winde hath broughte to the strande
Put to the sea the dragonships now shall be
Hoist up the sails
The kit is taken aboard
Ready to get throughe the gales
Man the boats, leave the shore far behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth we shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Beneath the star of the northern lande
A son of Odinn was borne
One-eyed father is my guide
For I passed the rite of the Ancient One
I followe the cult like my father did
My first course lies aheade
Now my sworde shalle prove
Whose descendant I am
The foeman's bloode will be shed
Fearless I'm on board
Leave the shore far behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth I shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Behold the horizon, an island is in sighte
We're heading for the shore
Get ready to fighte
Arms are handed over the bloodthirsty horde
Hails shalle be called out
Onward to loot the foreign shore
[Solo: Dave]
Fearless I'm on board
Now leave the shore behinde
Raids lie aheade, wealth we shalle finde
Crossing the seas, riding the storms
Onward to loot foreign shores
On the wide open sea far away from home
We're storming across foreign shores
Lyrics submitted by Toadonpa
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