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"
(Due to the marvels of scientific advance
My voice is coming to you from a satellite
Circling in outer space
Through this unique means I convey to you and all of mankind
America's wish for peace on Earth)
I held my head as I left the ground
The belts grew tight as the blast grew loud
A loving wish whispered in my ear
Please leave with grace, all the best my dear
Yeah it's like
I held your hand as I pulled you in
Your lips sealed tight ready to begin
I kissed you first then you kissed my hair
If I ask you once, will you ask me every year?
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
The sun is set in the night time sky
The stars they cast a glow upon my eyes
The earth itself a burning ball of light
Yeah it's like
When our first love was ignited late that night
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky
With thoughts light and fire and sound
The stars in your eyes light up the sky
With thoughts light and fire and sound
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
My voice is coming to you from a satellite
Circling in outer space
Through this unique means I convey to you and all of mankind
America's wish for peace on Earth)
I held my head as I left the ground
The belts grew tight as the blast grew loud
A loving wish whispered in my ear
Please leave with grace, all the best my dear
Yeah it's like
I held your hand as I pulled you in
Your lips sealed tight ready to begin
I kissed you first then you kissed my hair
If I ask you once, will you ask me every year?
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
The sun is set in the night time sky
The stars they cast a glow upon my eyes
The earth itself a burning ball of light
Yeah it's like
When our first love was ignited late that night
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
Do you feel alive? (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky
With thoughts light and fire and sound
The stars in your eyes light up the sky
With thoughts light and fire and sound
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky (do you feel)
With thoughts light and fire and sound (alive?) (Imagine, imagine)
Lyrics submitted by himynameismark
Love Like Rockets Lyrics as written by Thomas Delonge
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I held my head as it left the ground, The belts grew tight as the blast grew load, A loving wish whispered in my ear, Please lead with grace, all the best my dear, Yeah, It's like
I held your hand as I pulled you in, Your lips sealed tight, ready to begin, I kissed you first, then you kissed my ear, If I ask you once, will you ask me every year?
Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine) Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)
The Sun it set in the night time sky, The stars they cast a glow upon my eyes, The Earth itself a burning ball of light, yeah, it's like And our first love was ignited late that night
Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine) Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)
The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound (Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)) The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound (Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)) The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound (Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)) The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound (Do You Feel Alive? (Imagine, Imagine)) The stars in your eyes light up the sky with thoughts, light and fire and sound