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"
Thinking of you
It all comes in view
I believe we came from the same cloud
Two drops in the ocean
Tell me again
The story of when we
We will be together one day
We're two of a kind
Forever we've been combined
Though the current will pull us apart
Two drops in the ocean
You are part of me
The other side of the sea
And we will be together one day
[Chorus:]
Hey hey
What can I say?
I swim your way
Though the tide pull us away
I ask you
What you gonna do?
Oceans apart
But I know no one else will do
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion dear
We'll meet again
From two rivers that dealt on two shore
Two drops in the ocean
Fall into me
Dissolve in the sea
The boundaries between, they are nothing
But love we have, the only real thing, yeah
There is a stone wall
Around your heart
Nothin' left now to do but to start
Chippin' away
Day by day
Until we see it break apart
Hear me talkin' 'bout
Let it be known, it can be done
Bit by bit and one by one
If the two of us try from both the two sides
Until we see the sun
Your phenomenal
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion
A lot of fish in the sea
Not for me
You're somethin' of a different kind
The rest evaporate, but you stay in my mind
There is a stone wall
Around your heart
Nothin' left now to do but to start
Chippin' away
Day by day
Until we see it break apart
Hear me talkin' 'bout
Let it be known, it can be done
Bit by bit and one by one
If the two of us try
From both the two sides
Until we see the sun
Your phenomenal
[Chorus]
Hey hey
What can I say?
I swim your way
Though the tide pull us away
I ask you
What you gonna do?
Oceans apart
But I know no one else will do
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion
Two drops in the ocean dear
It all comes in view
I believe we came from the same cloud
Two drops in the ocean
Tell me again
The story of when we
We will be together one day
We're two of a kind
Forever we've been combined
Though the current will pull us apart
Two drops in the ocean
You are part of me
The other side of the sea
And we will be together one day
[Chorus:]
Hey hey
What can I say?
I swim your way
Though the tide pull us away
I ask you
What you gonna do?
Oceans apart
But I know no one else will do
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion dear
We'll meet again
From two rivers that dealt on two shore
Two drops in the ocean
Fall into me
Dissolve in the sea
The boundaries between, they are nothing
But love we have, the only real thing, yeah
There is a stone wall
Around your heart
Nothin' left now to do but to start
Chippin' away
Day by day
Until we see it break apart
Hear me talkin' 'bout
Let it be known, it can be done
Bit by bit and one by one
If the two of us try from both the two sides
Until we see the sun
Your phenomenal
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion
A lot of fish in the sea
Not for me
You're somethin' of a different kind
The rest evaporate, but you stay in my mind
There is a stone wall
Around your heart
Nothin' left now to do but to start
Chippin' away
Day by day
Until we see it break apart
Hear me talkin' 'bout
Let it be known, it can be done
Bit by bit and one by one
If the two of us try
From both the two sides
Until we see the sun
Your phenomenal
[Chorus]
Hey hey
What can I say?
I swim your way
Though the tide pull us away
I ask you
What you gonna do?
Oceans apart
But I know no one else will do
Two drops in the ocean
Just go with the motion
Two drops in the ocean dear
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The guitars sound so familar to a spanish song I know.
what a great song!love song of the century.god bless 311.
I love their sound and their message and their earthy vibe>hey hey what can I say!
very chill song. Sure it may not be what everyone knows 311 as but this song along with songs like this one (amber, beyond the gray sky) shows that they have great variety.
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This is not 311. Yeah it sounds nice...but it's not 311.