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"
Go tell all your friends that this is the end
Go tell all your friends that this is the end
Go tell all your friends that this is the end
This is the end
I don't understand a word you're saying
What are the clouds running from?
There's something in the air tonight
Something is wrong, spit it out!
I just fell from the mother ship
(they said that)
Your answers they're always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers they're always lying on the ocean bed
there's something in the air
There's something in the air
(in the air, in the air)
Tonight, I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
(in the air, in the air, woah...)
Tonight, I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
and I'll plead with a thousand voices
I am sane! I am sane!
My soul felt so save up there
No self centered natives destroying our earth
I just fell from the mother ship
(they said that)
Your answers, were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers (your answers, your answers), were always lying on the ocean bed
walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
Walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
WALK THE PLANK!
your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Go tell all your friends that this is the end
Go tell all your friends that this is the end
This is the end
I don't understand a word you're saying
What are the clouds running from?
There's something in the air tonight
Something is wrong, spit it out!
I just fell from the mother ship
(they said that)
Your answers they're always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers they're always lying on the ocean bed
there's something in the air
There's something in the air
(in the air, in the air)
Tonight, I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
(in the air, in the air, woah...)
Tonight, I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
and I'll plead with a thousand voices
I am sane! I am sane!
My soul felt so save up there
No self centered natives destroying our earth
I just fell from the mother ship
(they said that)
Your answers, were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers (your answers, your answers), were always lying on the ocean bed
walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
Walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
WALK THE PLANK!
your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Your answers were always lying on the ocean bed
Lyrics submitted by underoath323
Mothership Lyrics as written by Liam Rory Clewlow Chris Batten
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"THere's something in the air... Tonight I'm wide awake'' etc. I think this could also be from the PoV of the abducted person. I think he's laying in bed remembering his experience with the aliens when he was abducted before, about his feelings when he was in the Mothership - and now he's feeling the same feelings again, as if the Mothership has returned - which it has!!
"I Am Sane. I Am Sane." He is defending his sanity. After he was abducted, people branded him insane - but now the aliens are here.
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