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"
Solitude and I
On such lonesome seas
With our words for sails
And an endless breeze
That's always behind
And I cannot recall
Knowing what we'd find
Though I'd heard of land
I'd hoped that it's nice
Or, or better than this
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But I am so lost
and so scared
and so anchorless
But I must carry on
Towards horizon's hinge
Through the waves like oars
So fragile, so thin
Oh, just like my own
And I cannot recall
Knowing what we'd find
Though we'd heard of love
We'd hoped that it's nice
Or, or better than this
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But then, from the sea
Came a great many teeth
Is this land?
'Cause I'm scared
And so poorly prepared
I'm dying, then see
A door with my life to be
I'm more than a boy on a wave
Lost in both time and space
On such lonesome seas
With our words for sails
And an endless breeze
That's always behind
And I cannot recall
Knowing what we'd find
Though I'd heard of land
I'd hoped that it's nice
Or, or better than this
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But I am so lost
and so scared
and so anchorless
But I must carry on
Towards horizon's hinge
Through the waves like oars
So fragile, so thin
Oh, just like my own
And I cannot recall
Knowing what we'd find
Though we'd heard of love
We'd hoped that it's nice
Or, or better than this
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But everything is so beautiful
And nothing hurts
I tell myself
But then, from the sea
Came a great many teeth
Is this land?
'Cause I'm scared
And so poorly prepared
I'm dying, then see
A door with my life to be
I'm more than a boy on a wave
Lost in both time and space
Lyrics submitted by JustPlainNJ, edited by prayingmantis84
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