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"
Ur en klar himmel faller bomben ner
Vi ligger tysta i en krater, ler
När vi ser vår samtid brinna ner
Och jag ska skydda dig med kroppen min
Luften svider när vi andas in
Har alltid sett oss som Ansgar och Evelyne
Vi ska fylla vår stulna bil
med dyra klockor och Dexedrine
Souvernirer från den tid då vi var svin
Och du har tagit mig från kylan in
Från tysk hårdrock till Charles Valentin
I min bok är du för evigt Everlyne
Och som jag önskar att du var här nu
Jag vill bara höra dina hjärtslag
Och som jag önskar att vårt krig tog slut
Jag har lärt av mina misstag
Och du är lika ensam som jag
Vi ligger tysta i en krater, ler
När vi ser vår samtid brinna ner
Och jag ska skydda dig med kroppen min
Luften svider när vi andas in
Har alltid sett oss som Ansgar och Evelyne
Vi ska fylla vår stulna bil
med dyra klockor och Dexedrine
Souvernirer från den tid då vi var svin
Och du har tagit mig från kylan in
Från tysk hårdrock till Charles Valentin
I min bok är du för evigt Everlyne
Och som jag önskar att du var här nu
Jag vill bara höra dina hjärtslag
Och som jag önskar att vårt krig tog slut
Jag har lärt av mina misstag
Och du är lika ensam som jag
Lyrics submitted by amet
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I found this translation if you don't understand Swedish. from Kentpaus.com
'From a clear blue sky the bomb falls down We lie silent in a crater, smiling When we're watching contemporary period burn down
And I will protect you with my body the Air stings when we breath I have always seen us as Ansgar and Evelyne
We will fill our stolen car With expensive watches and dexedrin Souvenirs from the time when we were swines
And you have taken me inside from the cold From german hardrock to Charles Valentine In my book you are always Evelyne
And how I wish that you were here now I want to hear your heartbeats And how I wish that our war would end
I have learned from my mistakes And you are as lonely as I am'
I read somewhere that Ansgar and Evelyne are the names of two characters in some old tv-show. If you're interested...
contemporary period? låter kul! Our time eller our ages kan man kanske säga annars, fast det blev inte heller riktigt bra... Väldigt fin sång, i alla fall!