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"
You drag your tiger's paw across
Your chapped and cracking lips
And open up a crimson slur
You spread each time you kiss
The broken boy you bargain with
To turn back to the man
That you fell in love with once
But never saw again
Is he in there? Do you think he drowned to death?
Well it's his decision to show his face again
You grind your tired teeth
And curse the day that you were born
To a sunken line of Irish wives a million miles long
Devoted to the suffering they're certain they deserve
A husband's a cross to bear
Worry lines and a silver string of hair
Come too early, come to steal your sainted youth
Well it's your decision to stay or else to move
And I'm not a man of faith, no gospel oak for me
But you wear a crucifix to broadcast your beliefs
And the god I've read about can't go where he's not asked to go
So you've got a choice to make
Shut him out, save yourself, or sit and wait
But you're waiting on a man who will not move
So you must move for him and do what he can't do
'Cause it's worth it, that's the one life you can change
And I'm sorry sister, but it has to end this way
Yeah, it's scary sister, but tomorrow's just too late
So stand up sister
There's an albatross to shake
Your chapped and cracking lips
And open up a crimson slur
You spread each time you kiss
The broken boy you bargain with
To turn back to the man
That you fell in love with once
But never saw again
Is he in there? Do you think he drowned to death?
Well it's his decision to show his face again
You grind your tired teeth
And curse the day that you were born
To a sunken line of Irish wives a million miles long
Devoted to the suffering they're certain they deserve
A husband's a cross to bear
Worry lines and a silver string of hair
Come too early, come to steal your sainted youth
Well it's your decision to stay or else to move
And I'm not a man of faith, no gospel oak for me
But you wear a crucifix to broadcast your beliefs
And the god I've read about can't go where he's not asked to go
So you've got a choice to make
Shut him out, save yourself, or sit and wait
But you're waiting on a man who will not move
So you must move for him and do what he can't do
'Cause it's worth it, that's the one life you can change
And I'm sorry sister, but it has to end this way
Yeah, it's scary sister, but tomorrow's just too late
So stand up sister
There's an albatross to shake
Lyrics submitted by techniicolor_girl
Tomorrow's Just Too Late Lyrics as written by Kevin Patrick Devine
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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I'm not sure how accurate this is concerning the last line in the song. I loved thinking it was something as light-hearted as just a bird hanging around, I pictured a women sitting on a beached area, reflecting, and then the bird bothering her, and her having to move.
BUT- I seriously doubt Kevin would do that- so- I dug a little deeper and this is what I found.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tells the story of a ship departing and accidently routing off course and ending up in Antarctica. The crew spots an Albatross and follows it out of the area, effectively saving them. Then, one of the mariners shoots the bird, killing it. The crew, thinking the bird brought the wind that saved them, grow angry at the Mariner for killing it, but that subsides when the ship lands in calmed waters. Once in THESE waters, though, the crew blames the Mariner for their thirst, and in punishment make him wear the albatross around his neck (illustrating the burden he must live with for killing it). Soon after, for the next week, many of the crew members die.
The poem goes on, but it kind of loses some of its merit with the rest of the story. I think this section of the poem relates VERY well to the story being told in the song, especially if it is about his aunt who stayed too long in a bad relationship. The albatross would represent the guilt she might feel for leaving him or "killing" the relationship (thus, having to "shake" the albatross- IE getting away from it).
eh. Just a thought.