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"
Did they tell you, you should grow up
When you wanted to dream.
Did they warn you, better shape up
If you want to succeed
I don't know about you, who are they talking to?
They aren't talking to me.
I'm higher than high
Lower than deep,
I'm doing it wrong
And singing along
Go higher than high, lower than deep
Keep doing it wrong and singing along
Did I ask you for attention
When affection is what I need
Thinking sorrow is perfection,
I'd wallow 'til you told me
There's no glitter in the gutter,
There's no twilight galaxy.
Go higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Keep doing it wrong, oh
Singing along, oh
I'm higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
And singing along, oh
I'm alright, c'mon baby
I've seen all the demons that you've got.
If you're not alright, now c'mon baby
I'll pick you up and take you where you want
Anywhere you want
Anywhere you want
Anywhere you want
Anything you want
I'm higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
And singing along, oh
Higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
Singing along, oh
When you wanted to dream.
Did they warn you, better shape up
If you want to succeed
I don't know about you, who are they talking to?
They aren't talking to me.
I'm higher than high
Lower than deep,
I'm doing it wrong
And singing along
Go higher than high, lower than deep
Keep doing it wrong and singing along
Did I ask you for attention
When affection is what I need
Thinking sorrow is perfection,
I'd wallow 'til you told me
There's no glitter in the gutter,
There's no twilight galaxy.
Go higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Keep doing it wrong, oh
Singing along, oh
I'm higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
And singing along, oh
I'm alright, c'mon baby
I've seen all the demons that you've got.
If you're not alright, now c'mon baby
I'll pick you up and take you where you want
Anywhere you want
Anywhere you want
Anywhere you want
Anything you want
I'm higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
And singing along, oh
Higher than high, oh
Lower than deep, oh
Doing it wrong, oh
Singing along, oh
Lyrics submitted by tinylittlewords, edited by v8pluver
Twilight Galaxy Lyrics as written by James Shaw Emily Haines
Lyrics © RUNAWAY MUSIC CANADA, BMG Rights Management
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