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"
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed what God has planned
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my Savior
I take him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me, this I read
And in my heart I find a need
Of him to be my Savior
That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior (my Savior)
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
Yes, living, dying let me bring
My Strength, my solace from this spring
That he who lives to be my king
Once died to be my Savior
That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My savior loves, my savior lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
My savior Loves, my savior Lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed what God has planned
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my Savior
I take him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me, this I read
And in my heart I find a need
Of him to be my Savior
That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior (my Savior)
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
Yes, living, dying let me bring
My Strength, my solace from this spring
That he who lives to be my king
Once died to be my Savior
That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My savior loves, my savior lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
My savior Loves, my savior Lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God is always gonna be
I am not skilled to understand
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I adore this song like no other. it's basically after she's lost someone - it doesn't even have to be a lover. it could be a friend or relative or someone close. she's been lethargic and in that state of disbelief and shock where you don't fully understand it, and when she states, "Oh my God" it's her realization that that loved one really is gone for good ("Oh you're gone").
So true …Â this song never stops hurting no matter how many times you let it loop.
@chachalola Couldn't have said it better. <br /> <br /> Whenever I listen to this song, I can't help but imagine finding a dead body in a bath tub. "...Keeping the bath warm..." Someone committed suicide... or had too much to drink and fell asleep in the bath.
Does anyone else here the riff for "The Strangers" in here?
Wow, I expected more comments on this one! This is probably my fav from the album.... her songs are not like anyone elses and they are so great and well written!
The narrator is numb from grief and drinking herself to death. Neglecting the daily maintenance of herself and her home. Comes to and sees the state of things and is horrified. Reminds me of "Hoarders" - often those people have had undergone a terrible loss and just stopped caring about the tasks of daily living, until the chaos becomes overwhelming.
My heart breaks every time I listen to this. So good. I wish she still did acoustic stuff sometimes...and didn't completely eschew the instrument now (she says she doesn't own a single acoustic out of the 20+/- guitars that she owns.... (?!?)).
To me, this song isn't about experiencing the death of a loved one, but of simply experiencing depression. She says that the dishes don't care if she wakes late, soaks in the bathtub for an unnecessary amount of time or that she leaves the bed unmade. She's simply saying that she feels lonely and unneeded. She says that, "when the drink goes in, the devil comes out. Day's go by, still the past don't seem so far." She is haunted by her past which the alcohol is causing her to think about. She eventually calls out to God in her loneliness (Oh, my God!) but feeling abandoned and hearing no reply, simply replies to herself, "Oh, you're gone..."