Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
On the path of life, I wish you well
With urgent chariots, we will meet again in Hell
Kept my head down and moved
'Til every friend I'd known was gone
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
When in rags and when in wealth
A solemn promise never to give too much of myself
Despite the hopeful words I've said
I've lived my life inside my head
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
I hold my breath and count to ten
I hate it now, hated it then
Seen it all before
A failure and a bore
That's what friends are for
So it seems I must have won
As I survey the ashes of the damage that I've done
Everyone I've ever known
Is just as closed off and alone
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Every thing
With urgent chariots, we will meet again in Hell
Kept my head down and moved
'Til every friend I'd known was gone
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
When in rags and when in wealth
A solemn promise never to give too much of myself
Despite the hopeful words I've said
I've lived my life inside my head
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
I hold my breath and count to ten
I hate it now, hated it then
Seen it all before
A failure and a bore
That's what friends are for
So it seems I must have won
As I survey the ashes of the damage that I've done
Everyone I've ever known
Is just as closed off and alone
Then one day, I was not alone
Everything had changed
Everything was strange
Everything had changed
Every thing
Lyrics submitted by eleventy, edited by midnightcowboy, Born Human
Everything Had Changed Lyrics as written by Jim Creeggan Ed Robertson
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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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:
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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:
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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
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Wow, Geckat, maybe I'm way off but I'm pretty much seeing this in the opposite way as you. This song seems to me to be about the redemptive power of love: He's made a giant mess of his life, depressed, alone, closed off, etc.--and then he meets "the one" and everything changes. ("Then one day, I was not alone, everything had changed," etc.)
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As for the meaning...I think it might be something akin to 'I Live With It Every Day'...just depression over what the protagonist has done. I know it's kind of loose, but that's all I can think up right now.
With urgent chariots = divergent journeys
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It's more as gravity defiant said. Basically the guy shut himself off, burned his bridges, and thought he was alone in some kind of shame. He had these people and he figured it'd be a let-down, so it was in the end and he was proven right, and then suddenly he's proven wrong and he finds that he isn't alone one day, and everything has changed...and it's strange because he's used to the loneliness he made.
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Personally when I hear it I think of me.
Like this: The man is antisocial and then he meets a girl and he doesn't know what to think. He'd always been alone. Also he's hurt others in the past.