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"
Corazon
By the school, on the street
You were dropped of with a sign
"This piano is free"
You didn't look free to me
Cast aside, obsolete
Since they canceled music class
You'd been a refugee
But now I'll give you a home
Corazon
So I pushed and I heaved
But your weight bore down like I could not believe
Had you accepted defeat?
Till the crowd gathered round put away their goings on
And hunkered down and they were cheering you on, Corazon
Corazon
And the expert, with his tools
Said "to bring it up to patch"
We'd snap the sucker in two
I guess we're tuning to you
So I pulled up a seat and
I swear I felt a pulse beneath your keys
To urge your hammers along
Corazon
I was caught, I was stuck
And my thoughts couldn't bind and deepening the rut
Until your first chord struck
Now I search on my shore
But my God you've given another chance to love
And now I'll give you a home
Corazon
By the school, on the street
You were dropped of with a sign
"This piano is free"
You didn't look free to me
Cast aside, obsolete
Since they canceled music class
You'd been a refugee
But now I'll give you a home
Corazon
So I pushed and I heaved
But your weight bore down like I could not believe
Had you accepted defeat?
Till the crowd gathered round put away their goings on
And hunkered down and they were cheering you on, Corazon
Corazon
And the expert, with his tools
Said "to bring it up to patch"
We'd snap the sucker in two
I guess we're tuning to you
So I pulled up a seat and
I swear I felt a pulse beneath your keys
To urge your hammers along
Corazon
I was caught, I was stuck
And my thoughts couldn't bind and deepening the rut
Until your first chord struck
Now I search on my shore
But my God you've given another chance to love
And now I'll give you a home
Corazon
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While it may literally refer to a piano, I think it's a good metaphor for people in general, and accepting someone for who they are, faults and all, and not trying to "fix them" to fit your image of how they should be.
"and the expert with his tools said to bring it up to pitch would snap the sucker in two I guess we're tuning to you"
I buy these meanings, but nobody thinks any of it relates to 'corazon,' which means 'heart' in Spanish?
You must be right. "I swear I felt a pulse beneath your keys" is a pretty clear heart metaphor. "Until your first chord struck" is another one.
This song is about a piano the band found that was just being thrown away outside of their practice space in Brooklyn. An artistic rendering of it is on the cover of their January EP. The Piano was basically already destroyed and would break if it was properly tuned because it was in that bad of shape, but apparently really helped in the writing of their songs for their EP a month project in 2006.
it's a very pretty song. Very endearing...they're great, why haven't they been given a bigger hype like Arcade Fire or such?
I love the way the singer sings "Corazon". Yeah.
I love the way the singer sings "Corazon". Yeah.
i love you bishop allen. and i love the picture of the corazon piano.
Like how old is this song I have never heard of it or the artist. do i just live a sheltered life or what?!?
its a clever song cause if you pay atention to the lyrics or hear it more than once or twice then youll obviously tell its about a piano he found but im thinking that its really telling you that you can find a peice of shit and turn it into something beautiful such as this piano being a peice of shit... but then making a beautiful song out of it
I think the part where they say "I was caught, I was stuck And my thoughts couldn't bind and deepening the rut Until your first chord struck" Is about them having song writers block. Love it.