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"
Young,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
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Mostly Waving Lyrics as written by Emily Haines
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Alright, I agree with everything except the blue brown theories and the parts about the frat boys. I think the blues being brown means that feeling blue doesn't feel pretty like blue, it feels ugly like brown, so she thinks it shouldn't be called blue at all. I don't understand what she's talking about with the horse. And in my mind elaborating to the frat boys is like, being at a party when you're sad and no one else is, you kind of freak them out with your heavy grief and sadness so she's like, no no no, use your baby talk. They like that.
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But what does being depressed at a party have to do with the lines, "Get, get the line down?" Even if you don't take it as literal interpretation of song-writing, you must admit that the singer is struggling to articulate something but she's having a hard time which is why she repeats "get the line down".<br /> <br /> Another explanation could be the difference between writing songs for Metric and writing more personal songs like she does for this solo project. She's just trying to get the line down, but she's afraid her fans or the general public won't get it, hence someone urging her to use her "baby talk" instead. Not to rip on Metric, because I love them, but the songs she has written for that band are definitely not as heavy or as personal than the songs on this album. She wants to express her grief, to write the song, to get it out, but she's worried it's too much.<br /> <br /> I agree with your point on blue not being blue at all but brown. I wonder if this has anything to do with "this fog"? Metric has a lot of songs about the "blues" but this feeling is more intense than the blues - it's brown. I like to think of it as a leaf in the fall that turns brown and brittle, but that's probably because at first I thought she sang "this fall" instead of "this fog." :)