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"
We are uninvited guests
In this melancholy world
And soon you learn
That the only thing worth to treasure,
Are the people that actually care
Then why are there still tears in your eyes?
So I'm trying to teach you something
But you turn away
So I'm trying to show you the path
But you'll walk astray
I would cross the seven seas
Just to get to you
I wouldn't sleep a thousand nights
To give what belongs to you
The token of all I was
I traded for my escape
To see a new horizon
And my burden finally rests now
In the depths of its water grave
But the waves of the river will always remember
Forever isn't long enough
In the company of you
My heart will always beat your name
In this melancholy world
And soon you learn
That the only thing worth to treasure,
Are the people that actually care
Then why are there still tears in your eyes?
So I'm trying to teach you something
But you turn away
So I'm trying to show you the path
But you'll walk astray
I would cross the seven seas
Just to get to you
I wouldn't sleep a thousand nights
To give what belongs to you
The token of all I was
I traded for my escape
To see a new horizon
And my burden finally rests now
In the depths of its water grave
But the waves of the river will always remember
Forever isn't long enough
In the company of you
My heart will always beat your name
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The definition of an enclave is:
enclave - an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds
So basically it's a territory that belongs to a specific culture that refuses or at least attempts to keep themselves separate from the surrounding society. For example, in Minnesota there is a huge Somalian enclave in St. Paul and they very much stick to their traditions.
"We are uninvited guests In this melancholy world And soon you learn That the only thing worth to treasure, Are the people that actually care"
...this verse is basically introducing the idea that they are separating themselves from the traditional society and that they need to rely on only each other to get by.
"SO I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOMETHING BUT YOU TURN AWAY SO I'M TRYING TO SHOW YOU THE PATH BUT YOU'LL WALK ASTRAY"
...this set of lyrics describes their refusal to completely conform to the society around them. I have had experiences with people who are labelled a cultural enclave and these lyrics describe exactly what happened. You try to teach them, they don't want it. You try to show them, they don't want it.
The way I see it, is that the person who wrote the lyrics for "Enclave" was highly educated in human geography. They were able to take something that struck them and turn it into a very moving song.