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"
The lions roar
And young men soar
The flames all scorch
The circus floor
Puppets on strings
All dance and sing
And flap their wings
Trumpets play sick lullabies
Delicate dame
Her fragile face
Was scared away
Without a trace
Out in the cold
Where did she go?
Into unknown
A place I'll never know
And the desperate search began
All across this sea and land
I just knew I'd find you here
I just knew I found you
Elephant's rear
And young men steer
The audience
Just claps and cheers
I asked around
Half-empty towns
About a girl
Nowhere to be found
And the desperate search began
All across this sea and land
I just knew I'd find you here
I just knew I found you
We didn't know
We could not go
The circus songs
Just carried on
Out of the crowd
Three men rush out
And scream and shout
"Everybody stop!"
And young men soar
The flames all scorch
The circus floor
Puppets on strings
All dance and sing
And flap their wings
Trumpets play sick lullabies
Delicate dame
Her fragile face
Was scared away
Without a trace
Out in the cold
Where did she go?
Into unknown
A place I'll never know
And the desperate search began
All across this sea and land
I just knew I'd find you here
I just knew I found you
Elephant's rear
And young men steer
The audience
Just claps and cheers
I asked around
Half-empty towns
About a girl
Nowhere to be found
And the desperate search began
All across this sea and land
I just knew I'd find you here
I just knew I found you
We didn't know
We could not go
The circus songs
Just carried on
Out of the crowd
Three men rush out
And scream and shout
"Everybody stop!"
Lyrics submitted by kasandra
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thats so weird i thought of big fish when i heard this song too !
i absoultely love this song.
its a really weird song but pretty good
it's about a carnival, and then a girl goes missing, so the guy leaves the carnival to look for her, but then they go back to the carnival. Then some guys came in and ruined their fun at the carnival. =(
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The Man is busy looking through The Town, as it celebrates a large carnival, for The Woman. He finds her at the carnival, like he predicted he would. But before they can meet, three men come out of the crowd. This is the part where the song has some vicious sounding instrumental, without any more lyrics. I see these three start destroying everything around in a violent mess, and the ruined Town afterward in the calm part of the instrumental.
My imaginantion's way too vivid, hah.
Ok I always thought it was about a girl who ran away and joined the circus and then the singer is going to go find her. He is about to find her but then the circus catches on fire and she disappears again. I dont know, thats just my idea.
maybe my mind is too polluted by pop culture, but i immediately had the movie "Big Fish" come to mind when i first heard this song. it may just be me though, i'm not too sure. i just remember from the movie the one scene where time stopped and it was at a carnival and Ewan McGregor's character saw the girl whom he loved. it was a fabulously artistic scene, hence why is it has stuck with me. i just wonder if anyone else thought of that when they heard this song.
I think this is one of the 'we intertwined' narrator's dreams - his searching each of his dreams for the girl thats left him. Maybe when they were together in life she enjoyed the circus, so it is natural for him to look for her there in his dreams.
i agree with Jacdale8 but i also think this:
she ran away/he tried to find her/whatever that bit, and he finds her in part of the circus.
The audience is wathcing and enjoying the show but really, there is so much drama unfolding and they have to keep the act up, even though 'he' has found 'her' and she obv didnt wnat to be found. "We didn't know We could not go The circus songs Just carried on"
although they have recognition, using some good old queen lyrics "the show must go on"