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"
And though you’d like to hear a song
That sings everything’s alright
The temperature is warm
The fire horses sleep
So gently comes the night
Now close your eyes and stare
The ground they’re on is bare
But once it was as deep
And wild as giants' dreams
It’s no longer there
And all of our desires
Could mirror skies with flames
And smoke out heaven’s halls
Who was that you called?
They're no longer there
Here it goes again
Here it goes again
Here it goes again
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept?
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you're no longer there?
Would you sail to distant shores
And hide within the haze?
Softly close your doors
Pretend the world was saved
And wait for heaven’s call
Or would you turn and face the sea
And calm decide you care?
There’s chance but if you dare
And swift as honour's steeds
Before it’s no longer there
Here it goes again
Here it goes agaaain
Here it goes aga-ain!
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept?
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you're no longer there?
To deny or to despair
They're really just the same
And everything between
It means we have to change
Cos when a one forgets
Their world begins to fade
And all the shapes and shades
That made their colours see
Well it suddenly turned grey
Then they're no longer there
That sings everything’s alright
The temperature is warm
The fire horses sleep
So gently comes the night
Now close your eyes and stare
The ground they’re on is bare
But once it was as deep
And wild as giants' dreams
It’s no longer there
And all of our desires
Could mirror skies with flames
And smoke out heaven’s halls
Who was that you called?
They're no longer there
Here it goes again
Here it goes again
Here it goes again
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept?
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you're no longer there?
Would you sail to distant shores
And hide within the haze?
Softly close your doors
Pretend the world was saved
And wait for heaven’s call
Or would you turn and face the sea
And calm decide you care?
There’s chance but if you dare
And swift as honour's steeds
Before it’s no longer there
Here it goes again
Here it goes agaaain
Here it goes aga-ain!
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept?
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you're no longer there?
To deny or to despair
They're really just the same
And everything between
It means we have to change
Cos when a one forgets
Their world begins to fade
And all the shapes and shades
That made their colours see
Well it suddenly turned grey
Then they're no longer there
Lyrics submitted by rachy_cool
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Aww i love it.
It almost sounds as if its about suicide, i know its abit of a dark conclusion to jump to but it could e, well to me it is anyway, though proabbly not written about that :]