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"
Baby come save me
I'm going crazy without you
Steal me away
These nights just ain't the same
And you can watch me wisely but I'll turn on a dime
You can try and surprise me but I've made up my mind
And you've known the whole time
I want you beside me
Or we can weight our lines here
Let it drown us, drag us down
Tangled in fear that it won't come around
That we've lost what we'd found
Neither of us freer
I'm going crazy without you
Steal me away
These nights just ain't the same
And you can watch me wisely but I'll turn on a dime
You can try and surprise me but I've made up my mind
And you've known the whole time
I want you beside me
Or we can weight our lines here
Let it drown us, drag us down
Tangled in fear that it won't come around
That we've lost what we'd found
Neither of us freer
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Corrections:
"And you've known the whole time,"
"We can weight our lines here"
"That it won't come around, that we've lost what we've found."
Personally, I think this song is about her trying to get over someone, even though she is still in love with him. At first it was a mutual break up, but she realizes that she still loves and needs him. When they broke up, they both were expecting a burden to be lifted off of their shoulders and to be free, but they both are miserable without eachother. At least, that's what I got out of it... but of course that might be because that is exactly what is happening in my life at the moment.
I agree with ^^ This is definitely a new favorite.
in any relationship, besides all the love and joy and positive aspects, there runs the risk that someday it will end and the beauty will be lost in the destruction. love is the ultimate risk, you give your heart to the one you love on a silver platter and hope for the best.
i agree with O Avalanche ): sigh
This is the first time I've heard this song, and it's really good. Wow. Her voice is amazing.
This is the first time I've heard this song, and it's really good. Wow. Her voice is amazing.
It seems to me like she's still in a relationship with someone whom she cares very much about, but it is reaching that point in their relationship when they are having problems and are debating whether or not they should still be together because things seemed to have changed.
They are reaching that breaking point realizing that the relationship has not lived up to their expectations.
I don't know. Randomness going on.
See, I don't see this as a "getting over someone" song at all. I see it as a "new love" kind of song... maybe they both have just gotten over breakups, but the "tangled in fear" line to me is about not wanting to rush into a relationship, and "neither of us freer" because their new relationship with each other allows each of them to be freer than they were in their previous relationships...
to me this song is about two people who are very much in love but theyve lost eachother or are losing eachother if that makes any sense to you...
i dont think its a getting over someone song at all