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"
It was a hot and sultry afternoon
Sometime at the end of June
We had collapsed ourselves in shade somewhere
To conclude our love affair
But it was too damn hot to speak that much
It felt easier to touch
So we forgot to fall apart that day
And the next day
It was a cold and endless sky above
When he decided he was through with love
The leaves were piles of skeletons
And he was only skin and bones
And then he went to the bridge so he could fall
And drop down far away from it all
But the water looked so black and deep
And he closed his eyes and he went to sleep
Til the next day
The snow fell hard from five to five
You had to drink to stay alive
But you were hoping it would kill you too
At least you'd have something changing you
Cause you were cold as the ice at your front door
You raised a trembling glass and shouted, "Fuck the world!"
And then you fell into oblivion
Lying on your bed with your shoes on
Til the next day
Baby close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life
Baby close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life
Sometime at the end of June
We had collapsed ourselves in shade somewhere
To conclude our love affair
But it was too damn hot to speak that much
It felt easier to touch
So we forgot to fall apart that day
And the next day
It was a cold and endless sky above
When he decided he was through with love
The leaves were piles of skeletons
And he was only skin and bones
And then he went to the bridge so he could fall
And drop down far away from it all
But the water looked so black and deep
And he closed his eyes and he went to sleep
Til the next day
The snow fell hard from five to five
You had to drink to stay alive
But you were hoping it would kill you too
At least you'd have something changing you
Cause you were cold as the ice at your front door
You raised a trembling glass and shouted, "Fuck the world!"
And then you fell into oblivion
Lying on your bed with your shoes on
Til the next day
Baby close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life
Baby close your eyes until tomorrow
It could bring joy it could bring sorrow
But it will come sure as light
Try not to dream a dream tonight
Imagine that you're standing here
And suddenly you disappear
A thread cut with a carving knife
That is what they call our life
Lyrics submitted by brilliantcoldlight, edited by Sladex
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The song is also about the changing of the season and of the heart.
The first part is summer time when their love was pure and innocent.
the second part is fall, where everything is starting to wither down.
the third is winter, where our hearts are frozen like the snowman in what the snowman learned about love.
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A Thread Cut With a Carving Knife "A Thread Cut With a Carving Knife" builds subtly enough, with its subdued keyboards and Torq's mise-en-scene setting lyrics, "It was a hot a sultry afternoon," he sings locating the first part of the narrative in the vernal season as the drums build around the end of the refrain.
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*****Cold and ANGRY sky
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a love story cut terribly short, that's the image put forth by the song. Culminating in these words "Imagine that you're standing here And suddenly you disappear A thread cut with a carving knife That is what they call our life"
the guy contemplated suicide too.
I believe the line should be "You raised a trembling glass and shouted 'Fuck the WAR!'", not world.
Amy's part is totally awesome (like 3:00 and over). Can't stop listening to it.
It's about wanting end a relationship "To conclude our love affair" but he liked the sex too much. "it was too damn hot to speak that much" "It felt easier to touch" and forgot to do it. "So we forgot to fall apart that day" Til the next day...
Then he thought it was too hard so he tried jumping off a bridge but couldn't do it either.
"The snow fell hard from five to five" he's miserable. " You had to drink to stay alive But you were hoping it would kill you too" Getting drunk to forget his problems.
"And then you fell into oblivion Lying on your bed with your shoes on" passed out from drinking too much.
Baby close your eyes until tomorrow It could bring joy it could bring sorrow But it will come sure as light Try not to dream a dream tonight Imagine that you're standing here And suddenly you disappear A thread cut with a carving knife That is what they call our life
I think it's means dont worry about today or tomorrow.. it will be over soon.
It's definitely "Fuck the war!" They even have a pin that has the line on it.
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The three verses tell three different stories... The first verse is from a first person perspective, the second verse is in the third person, and the third verse is in the second person...
Each verse ends with the words "the next day", meaning whatever's going on, there's always another day... Later, Amy puts it differently: "It could bring joy, it could bring sorrow, but it will come sure as light..."
I love that this song sounds both hopeful and hopeless at the same time...