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"
so the wind that blows across your room
carried cheap perfume onto your dresser
it rained for jewelry and for credit cards
two tickets to a film I don't remember
oh, one day you'll kiss your rabbits nose, pick up the phone
to find I've been turned over
and you'll grab that piece of gold
only to find that the smell has taken over
now all the things you had, they aren't the same...
as what you hold
Now standing in a room,
its filled with all the folks and they're pleading "baby listen"
and I scream as loud as anyone,
but when asked to make a point I tend to whisper
now highways turn to tidal waves
they're asking me to ex (short for "explain") for all of your insecurities
but that wind that blows across your room
its gonna set the sails, and send me back to you
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where they're anchoring
and I think, I could make better use of my time on land
I'll drink less, cause lord knows I could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey I'm doing alright"
its a shame what your father did to your brothers head
when he smashed it with a telephone
and your mother got scared and locked the door
you were only four, but lord you remember it
so now you're scared of love
and you'll take love the same as the blood on the receiver
love is stinkin' cold
its an inside joke
love is coming home
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where they're anchoring
and i think, i could make better time of my time on land
I'll drink less
cause lord knows i could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey I'm doing alright"
yeah I'm doing just fine
and if she seems as lonely as me.....
let her sink.
let her sink.
let her
carried cheap perfume onto your dresser
it rained for jewelry and for credit cards
two tickets to a film I don't remember
oh, one day you'll kiss your rabbits nose, pick up the phone
to find I've been turned over
and you'll grab that piece of gold
only to find that the smell has taken over
now all the things you had, they aren't the same...
as what you hold
Now standing in a room,
its filled with all the folks and they're pleading "baby listen"
and I scream as loud as anyone,
but when asked to make a point I tend to whisper
now highways turn to tidal waves
they're asking me to ex (short for "explain") for all of your insecurities
but that wind that blows across your room
its gonna set the sails, and send me back to you
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where they're anchoring
and I think, I could make better use of my time on land
I'll drink less, cause lord knows I could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey I'm doing alright"
its a shame what your father did to your brothers head
when he smashed it with a telephone
and your mother got scared and locked the door
you were only four, but lord you remember it
so now you're scared of love
and you'll take love the same as the blood on the receiver
love is stinkin' cold
its an inside joke
love is coming home
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where they're anchoring
and i think, i could make better time of my time on land
I'll drink less
cause lord knows i could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey I'm doing alright"
yeah I'm doing just fine
and if she seems as lonely as me.....
let her sink.
let her sink.
let her
Lyrics submitted by deepelmdouches, edited by Lorolyon
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okay the more i listen to this song, i think its supposed to be very sarcastic. so she cheated on him and now she's giving him excuses why love fails for her.. and thats the whole brother and dad and phone thing.. and he's like "you were only 4, but lord you remember it." i guess 4 is pretty young to remember. i dont remember anything when i was 4. i think he's very pissed and sarcastic.