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"
Ooh (ooh)
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That you cradle the sun
Living in remorse
Sky is over
Don't you want to hold me, baby?
Disappointed, going crazy
Even though you can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Behind closed eyes lie
The mind's ready to awaken us
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures?
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to wreck economies
Of countries, of empires, the sky is over
Don't you want to hold me, baby?
Disappointed, going crazy
La, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Don't you want me to run?
Even though you can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
The sky is over us
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That you cradle the sun
Living in remorse
Sky is over
Don't you want to hold me, baby?
Disappointed, going crazy
Even though you can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Behind closed eyes lie
The mind's ready to awaken us
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures?
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to wreck economies
Of countries, of empires, the sky is over
Don't you want to hold me, baby?
Disappointed, going crazy
La, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Don't you want me to run?
Even though you can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
The sky is over us
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Yep, think it's global warming. 'Everybody knows' - pretty much every government except the U.S.'s ratified Kyoto and accepted anthropogenic global warming. The U.S. is the only place where there is still real debate. 'That you cradle the sun' - human fossil fuel emissions effectively trap infa-red radiation emitted by the earth from solar rays, basically cradling the sun's energy to the earth. 'Living in remorse' even though we know what it's doing, we still continue our-emission heavy lifestyles, however guilty we feel 'sky is over' the fragile balance of our atmosphere is truly fucked. 'Even though we can't afford' - the debate over how much it will cost to prevent global warming - skeptics say we can't afford it. Serj is basically saying 'what the hell are you talking about? There isn't going to be a global economy when this happens! We are talking about the end of human civilization here!' 'Behinds closed eyes lie the minds ready to awaken you' - people can close their eyes to the problem all they want, but really they know we're fucked. 'Are you at war with land and all of it's creatures' global warming won't just screw us, it could potentially wipe out all forms of life and change the face of the entire earth. 'Your not so gentle persuasion has been known to wreck economies of countries, of empires' American capitalism and way of life have been known to have a huge effect around the world before (Wall street crash etc.) What you do has an effect. Consumerism could ruin the entire planet. 'Not even from the sun' this change in climate isn't even caused by natural solar fluctuations (as some skeptics claim.) It's entirely man-made. As if we don't have enough natural disasters to contend with, we seem hell-bent on wiping ourselves out first. 'The sky is over us' - we'll be the ones that suffer - the atmosphere was ideal for human life - now we're pushing it out of that zone - life on earth will probably move on in some other direction, as it has done before over some mass die-off. The planet will get over us.