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"
Light as a feather when I'm floating through
Reading through the daily news
Measuring the hurt within the golden rule
Centimeters in ether, I'm heating the speaker
Motivational teacher with words that burn people
Seeing the headlines lined with discord and
See the genocide or the planet in uproar
Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice
The best laid plans of mice and men are never right
I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon
The average joe who knows what the fuck is going on
It's the hope of my thoughts that I travel upon
Fly like an arrow of God until I'm gone
So,
Drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that is greater
So I'm drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm, keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that's greater
Taking chances, word tap dancing with wolves
In an ice arena out there deep in the woods of
Arizona, the sun be high, life's ironic
Ain't it trying to be Dalà when I write
Surreal life, I paint it vivid
Habitat, crazy insane
Watching propaganda 6 o'clock news that are insane
Cultures clash, for black folk and white trash
They revel in the cyberspace that might crash, dash
To millennium a million miles of running
At the speed of now back, don't return gunning
Rambo style, gung ho child gunning
Ammo, *Blaow*, two times loud stunning (stunning)
When it hit ya, lift ya right off the Earth like
Ayo, take ya back right to birth and
Niggas wonder why, they might wonder why
This shit might happen, but it does
They go,
Drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that is greater
So I'm drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm, keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that's greater
Treat you better than me, cause that's the heavenly key
To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be
It's the knowledge of self, understanding of the things around me
That becomes the wisdom that I need
Living this life to the best of my ability
Channeling energy to my thoughts into your symmetry
Remember me, because my clothes remain gold
I got the gift to gab like them pimps in Kangol
It never ends, I keep it ruling like a cypher
The first cave man bringing fire
Innovating it higher; To blast mistakes, I raise the stakes
It's double or nothing in this vacuumless space
I will, survive, divine the time to cry,
Fuck a hold or hide, I'm alive with pride
And I, drove the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry
Singing, "this will be the day that I die"
Reading through the daily news
Measuring the hurt within the golden rule
Centimeters in ether, I'm heating the speaker
Motivational teacher with words that burn people
Seeing the headlines lined with discord and
See the genocide or the planet in uproar
Never good, the rules of paradise are never nice
The best laid plans of mice and men are never right
I'm just a vagabond with flowers for Algernon
The average joe who knows what the fuck is going on
It's the hope of my thoughts that I travel upon
Fly like an arrow of God until I'm gone
So,
Drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that is greater
So I'm drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm, keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that's greater
Taking chances, word tap dancing with wolves
In an ice arena out there deep in the woods of
Arizona, the sun be high, life's ironic
Ain't it trying to be Dalà when I write
Surreal life, I paint it vivid
Habitat, crazy insane
Watching propaganda 6 o'clock news that are insane
Cultures clash, for black folk and white trash
They revel in the cyberspace that might crash, dash
To millennium a million miles of running
At the speed of now back, don't return gunning
Rambo style, gung ho child gunning
Ammo, *Blaow*, two times loud stunning (stunning)
When it hit ya, lift ya right off the Earth like
Ayo, take ya back right to birth and
Niggas wonder why, they might wonder why
This shit might happen, but it does
They go,
Drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my words take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that is greater
So I'm drifting away like a feather in air
Letting my soul take me away from the hurt and despair
So I'm, keeping it vertical, forever elevator
Riding the escalator to the something that's greater
Treat you better than me, cause that's the heavenly key
To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be
It's the knowledge of self, understanding of the things around me
That becomes the wisdom that I need
Living this life to the best of my ability
Channeling energy to my thoughts into your symmetry
Remember me, because my clothes remain gold
I got the gift to gab like them pimps in Kangol
It never ends, I keep it ruling like a cypher
The first cave man bringing fire
Innovating it higher; To blast mistakes, I raise the stakes
It's double or nothing in this vacuumless space
I will, survive, divine the time to cry,
Fuck a hold or hide, I'm alive with pride
And I, drove the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry
Singing, "this will be the day that I die"
Lyrics submitted by puppiesyay, edited by alfonse1618
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