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"
Downwind there is a comin',
A rumble in the sand,
Sets our feet to running,
For the fear of the faceless man
For the fear of the faceless man.
But if I had an arsenal
And if I was ten feet tall,
Then I would put an end to it all.
And if I had wheat to burn,
And if I had a lot to learn,
It still would not matter what color you were.
And if I had but one wish on which to stand,
I'd wish the weapons all turn to sand.
And I'd see the gunners watch their empty hands fall down to their sides.
Downwind they come up lonely,
All hungry for the kill.
The horses do the pounding
But it's a blood that's going to spill.
It's a dark blood that's going to spill.
But if I had an arsenal
And if I was ten feet tall,
Then it wouldn't matter what color you were.
And if I had but one wish on which to stand,
I'd see the weapons all turn to sand
And I'd see the gunners watch their empty hands fall down to their sides.
If I had but one wish on which to stand,
I'd see the weapons all leave Sudan
And I'd see the gunners wash their empty hands down by the riverside.
Ghost town in my homeland,
I will come back again,
If you make a ghost out of me,
I will still be free.
Ghost town in my homeland,
I will come back again,
If you make a ghost out of me,
I will still be free.
If I had but one wish on which to stand,
I'd see the weapons all leave this land.
And I'd see the gunners watch their empty hands fall down to their sides.
If I had but one wish on which to stand,
I'd see the weapons all leave Sudan
And I'd see the gunners wash their empty hands down by the riverside.
Lyrics submitted by observer01
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Its about the genocide happening in Darfur, Sudan. If anyone would like to read more about it go to savedarfur.org.
Just to give a little band bio to add to what AuntEggma said, State Radio is pretty active in the anti-genocide movement. They played at Newton High School (school just outside of Boston) for a STAND: a Student Anti-Genocide Coalition fund raiser, and just in general they have been really supportive of relief.
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