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"
Oww get your groove on
New shiny shoes on
I'm a comin' in on lust and resurgence
With all my love I overflow the river Nile
Rolling on for thousands of miles
We can celebrate your inner horizon
Ooh, we can activate our Christ teach, too
Oh we'll have our fun
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun
I'll meet you when the day breaks through
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
I've been worshiped by the buried ancients
Who asked for love
I gave them love radiations
And even hiding the sensations
Yeah we can celebrate our inner horizon
We can activate our Christ teach, too
Oh it'll be fun!
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun (Get your groove on, new shiny shoes on)
I'll meet you when the day breaks through (Rocking me nightly, shining so brightly)
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
We blink so brightly, light up the dark all night
Oh hear me out
I'm right up there with the brightest, I'm like a giant
Yeah
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun (Get your groove on, new shiny shoes on)
I'll meet you when the day breaks through (Rocking me nightly, shining so brightly)
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
New shiny shoes on
I'm a comin' in on lust and resurgence
With all my love I overflow the river Nile
Rolling on for thousands of miles
We can celebrate your inner horizon
Ooh, we can activate our Christ teach, too
Oh we'll have our fun
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun
I'll meet you when the day breaks through
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
I've been worshiped by the buried ancients
Who asked for love
I gave them love radiations
And even hiding the sensations
Yeah we can celebrate our inner horizon
We can activate our Christ teach, too
Oh it'll be fun!
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun (Get your groove on, new shiny shoes on)
I'll meet you when the day breaks through (Rocking me nightly, shining so brightly)
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
We blink so brightly, light up the dark all night
Oh hear me out
I'm right up there with the brightest, I'm like a giant
Yeah
I am heaven in the spirit of the sun (Get your groove on, new shiny shoes on)
I'll meet you when the day breaks through (Rocking me nightly, shining so brightly)
It's time to shine and make
All your dreams come true
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
You wish upon a dog star
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