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"
If we could sit together a moment
And talk forever just to pass the time
I would smile as the shivers and chills
Run down my spine
And your eyes are locked on mine
Oh, we'll fill the metro skies with country air
And when you close your tired eyes
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
Deep inside of you
There's a ruby glow
And it gets brighter
Than you and I will ever know
There's a rushing sound
That surrounds us
When we walk alone
And it's everything we've never known
(Wonder down the street and I will be the pavement beneath your feet)
If we could just be immobile for some time
And finally figure out the way we feel
About the missing puzzle pieces and cloudy question marks
That still look a bit surreal
Oh, I tend to disappear
Here and there
So concentrate and you'll feel me
Everywhere
And we'll fill the metro skies with country air
If you're lost when you close your eyes
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
You could be anywhere
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
You could be anywhere
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
Open your eyes and see
You could be anywhere
Everything you can be
I'll meet you there
Open your eyes and see
You could be anywhere
Everything you can be
I'll meet you there
And talk forever just to pass the time
I would smile as the shivers and chills
Run down my spine
And your eyes are locked on mine
Oh, we'll fill the metro skies with country air
And when you close your tired eyes
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
Deep inside of you
There's a ruby glow
And it gets brighter
Than you and I will ever know
There's a rushing sound
That surrounds us
When we walk alone
And it's everything we've never known
(Wonder down the street and I will be the pavement beneath your feet)
If we could just be immobile for some time
And finally figure out the way we feel
About the missing puzzle pieces and cloudy question marks
That still look a bit surreal
Oh, I tend to disappear
Here and there
So concentrate and you'll feel me
Everywhere
And we'll fill the metro skies with country air
If you're lost when you close your eyes
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
You could be anywhere
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
You could be anywhere
I'll meet you there
I'll meet you there
Open your eyes and see
You could be anywhere
Everything you can be
I'll meet you there
Open your eyes and see
You could be anywhere
Everything you can be
I'll meet you there
Lyrics submitted by JonnyTheMohawk
I'll Meet You There Lyrics as written by Adam R. Young
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Aw, i can't believe no one commented on this. To me this is about two people, they are in relationship , probably a long-distance one and the person singing is basically saying, "i will always be with you."
Umm.. I partly agree with the above. I see it as him dreaming. Kind of saying.. more along the lines of.. "(In our dreams,) we'll always be together"
i absolutly agree with the two above!
I agree with Something solid. He's saying that no matter where they are, the essence of the other person will always be with them and the other person is always by their side no matter what.
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open your eyes and see everything you can be... <3 this song is wonderful.
I definately think it could be taken as a long-distance relationship feel, but I think it is more of Adam singing about his relationship with God, since he is a Christian and all. It's awesome either way.
i love the line, "missing puzzle pieces and cloudy question marks" i feel like no matter what relationship this song is describing, one with God or with someone you love but can't be with, that line is the perfect description of how things feel sometimes.
ahh i love adam young!
i love this song:D it makes me all sleepy though, when it gets to the part where he says.. "We'll fill the Metro skies with country air. and when you close your tired eyes, I'll meet you there". nontheless, this song is awesome:DDD
See I got a totally different feel from it . I think it's more he likes a girl, and given the chance they could see the full potential between the two of them .
"If we could just be immobile for some time And finally figure out the way we feel About the missing puzzle pieces and cloudy question marks It still looks a bit surreal"