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"
Losing you was like losing an arm, in a war that I've fought since the
day I was born,
While the parliament talks and the mobsters make plans,
I look for the bird, that has flown from my hand,
Losing sleep in a Tel-Aviv hotel,
I cut holes in the sheets so that no one can tell,
To wear out on the town, a cloak for a ghost,
Who can pass through the walls of the hearts he needs most.
Sex without love, sex without love, sex without love is not easily done,
It takes gallons of wine, to quiet the blood,
Yer eyes may get drunk but your mind won't shut up enough
To touch her without trust,
Are you strong enough for sex without love?
Cutting the wings so I turn with each steps,
Its been down the same track since the day that you left,
The telephone takes all the truth from your voice,
While your friends draw their swords and scream freedom of choice,
Its been into the breach, its been travel or die,
The planes that we ride track the sun through the sky,
So the sun never sets, the timezones just change,
You can travel all night and not make up one day,
Sex without love, sex without love, sex without love is not easily done,
It takes gallons of wine, to quiet the blood,
Yer eyes may get drunk but your mind won't shut up enough
To touch her without trust,
Are you strong enough for sex without love?
Losing you was like losing the plot, to a story I wrote an then somehow
forgot,
Pour the wine from the glass, wipe the smudge from the edge,
The thought from my head an the smell from the bed,
Losing you was like losing an arm, in a war that I've fought since the
day I was born.
day I was born,
While the parliament talks and the mobsters make plans,
I look for the bird, that has flown from my hand,
Losing sleep in a Tel-Aviv hotel,
I cut holes in the sheets so that no one can tell,
To wear out on the town, a cloak for a ghost,
Who can pass through the walls of the hearts he needs most.
Sex without love, sex without love, sex without love is not easily done,
It takes gallons of wine, to quiet the blood,
Yer eyes may get drunk but your mind won't shut up enough
To touch her without trust,
Are you strong enough for sex without love?
Cutting the wings so I turn with each steps,
Its been down the same track since the day that you left,
The telephone takes all the truth from your voice,
While your friends draw their swords and scream freedom of choice,
Its been into the breach, its been travel or die,
The planes that we ride track the sun through the sky,
So the sun never sets, the timezones just change,
You can travel all night and not make up one day,
Sex without love, sex without love, sex without love is not easily done,
It takes gallons of wine, to quiet the blood,
Yer eyes may get drunk but your mind won't shut up enough
To touch her without trust,
Are you strong enough for sex without love?
Losing you was like losing the plot, to a story I wrote an then somehow
forgot,
Pour the wine from the glass, wipe the smudge from the edge,
The thought from my head an the smell from the bed,
Losing you was like losing an arm, in a war that I've fought since the
day I was born.
Lyrics submitted by penny_fresca
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