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"
Here is the sound that photographs make
When I see them
When I hear them
I see regions of sharp precision
Over abundance
Over indulgence
Tied together with rope and twine
Stuck together with paste and glue
Two old planks of knotty pine
A couple of nails that poke right through.
When I see them
When I hear them
I see regions of sharp precision
Over abundance
Over indulgence
Tied together with rope and twine
Stuck together with paste and glue
Two old planks of knotty pine
A couple of nails that poke right through.
Lyrics submitted by wrat
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applestew, I think you're on the right track. To me, the sound that photographs make is something like nostalgia or a flood of memory. In this case, the nostalgia or memory has some mixed feelings associated with it. There are moments of clarity (i.e. "sharp precision"), but also captured in the photo are moments of reckless behavior (such as over abundance & indulgence - maybe getting too comfortable with a situation, taking a person for granted, or just being young & stupid). The clarity and the other stuff are all tied together in the photo and merged into one "sound" or memory. Perhaps the speaker uses the word sound to cleverly mask the meaning of the song, or maybe it is sound because it is a memory or an association of someone involved with music/the band/etc. Anywa, the two old planks of knotty pine seems like a metaphor for people who were once familiar to each other or familiar to the speaker - the fact that they're old suggests the passing of time, and the knotty part suggests that they've become hardened, more imperfect. I also like the use of the word pine as it has two meanings - pine as in the tree, and pine as in to pine away. As for the nails poking through, to me it means that looking at the memory (or hearing it - maybe sound = video) makes it sting a bit, and evokes a pain like nails puncturing through your skin. Just my thoughts, and a rather rough interpretation.