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"
I close my eyes it's you
And I know now who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I know now
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
You do so much but you don't know it's true
And I know now who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I know now
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
See you as a mountain, a fountain of God
See you as a descant soul in the setting sun
You as a sound just as silent as none
I'm yours
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
And I know now who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I know now
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
You do so much but you don't know it's true
And I know now who I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I know now
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
See you as a mountain, a fountain of God
See you as a descant soul in the setting sun
You as a sound just as silent as none
I'm yours
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm falling
That's where I'm going, where are you going?
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream, catch me, yeah
Dream, catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all
Lyrics submitted by jackmxwalden
Dream Catch Me Lyrics as written by Crispin Hunt Newton Faulkner
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sentric Music, Peermusic Publishing
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I don't really think this is that difficult to understand but noone seems to have got it on here. Yes its a love song. So I'll go through some important bits
Every time I close my eyes It's you
(Pretty self explanetory there)
There's a place I go When I'm alone (Close my eyes and goes to my own place) Do anything I want (I could be anything i want) Be anyone I wanna be (and i could be anyone i want to be) But it is us I see (but no, I only see us together)
And I cannot believe I'm fallin (I Can't believe I'm falling in love) That's where I'm goin (Thants where I'm going, into 'love')
Where are you goin (I'm going into 'love' Where are you going? Where do you stand?) Hold it close won't let this go (You're not where I am, but i'm never gunna give up) Dream catch me, yea (but we'll be together in my dreams) Dream catch me when I fall (I have to realise it's a dream and it's not real) Or else I won't come back at all (Otherwise I'll be in love with you forever)