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"
With every little thing
Your owner's lookin' back
At you it starts to mean
Less than it ever did
Oh ever, on every inch of stone
Skin and bone.
Made to leave you
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soak in one dream
You've spent there, you are gonna dream there
Right, now you ask your baby
"Why? why? why?"
Forget the the frequent fliers
Leading an honored life
To give us this much more
Safe from a cut and cheer
On ever, on every inch of stone
Skin and bone.
Made to leave you
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soak in one dream
You've spent there, you are gonna dream there
Dry
Now you ask your babies "Why? Why? Why? Why?"
And if you cant decide
You will do either weep or moan
Your wasting in a moments to
Anyway you want it to
Oh, but you could have had
Turn it into broken wood
Takin' off a Saturday
I'm gonna fan a parasol
Am fairer than a clown, oh no
Maybe there were two again
And if it ever was at all
I'm taking you up as an offer, up as an Offer.
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soaking in one dream
You've spent there,
You have gone and dream there
Now you ask your babies, "Why? Why? Why? Why?"
Your owner's lookin' back
At you it starts to mean
Less than it ever did
Oh ever, on every inch of stone
Skin and bone.
Made to leave you
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soak in one dream
You've spent there, you are gonna dream there
Right, now you ask your baby
"Why? why? why?"
Forget the the frequent fliers
Leading an honored life
To give us this much more
Safe from a cut and cheer
On ever, on every inch of stone
Skin and bone.
Made to leave you
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soak in one dream
You've spent there, you are gonna dream there
Dry
Now you ask your babies "Why? Why? Why? Why?"
And if you cant decide
You will do either weep or moan
Your wasting in a moments to
Anyway you want it to
Oh, but you could have had
Turn it into broken wood
Takin' off a Saturday
I'm gonna fan a parasol
Am fairer than a clown, oh no
Maybe there were two again
And if it ever was at all
I'm taking you up as an offer, up as an Offer.
Here you are, you are breathing like little ghosts under rocks
That don't sound in pockets
Folks found your problem
Its lost and forgotten
Oh, oh, oh
You soaking in one dream
You've spent there,
You have gone and dream there
Now you ask your babies, "Why? Why? Why? Why?"
Lyrics submitted by rockstermonkey
Ghost Under Rocks Lyrics as written by John Ryan Pike Alexandra Nicole Lawn
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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