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"
living in cynical hills
dying down in cliche canyon
funny locusts are fighting
over tiny little misunderstandings
it's not funny that you used my name
she knew you'd get another prescription
living in hysterical hills
dying down in cliche canyon
getting out of the canyon
driving to the euphoric heights
they throw such killer parties
everyone gets pretty nice
people start touching people
people that they don't even like
we get out the canyon
we'll be hiking to the euphoric heights
we're going on a hike
we're trying to reach the peak of the euphoric heights and that's right
we do it almost every night
we come out from the mountain
with a fond farewell from out hosts
they throw such killer parties
everybody gets pretty close
i only know three sure things
the father son and holy ghost
we look off of the mountain
at the bloodshed down below (you know there's bloodshed down below)
we come into the prairie
like lazy laying out in the heat
a couple motels and a couple saloons
thinking we need a couple weeks off
i saw a small town parade and the lead majorette made me feel all weak in the knees
hot child in the city in the middle of the prairie waving out in the heat
waving out in the heat
because you can't get to heaven from down drinking
you get tired when you're halfway up the mount
we're going on a hike
we're trying to reach the peak of the Euphoric Heights and that's right
we do it almost every night
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
we were hanging at a rock and roll club
it was painted just like hell
the bar was plywood painted black
they had skull marks up on the shelves
they throw such killer parties
but some nights you don't feel so well
but you shouldn't be the singer in a be-yourself band if you don't want to be yourself
dying down in cliche canyon
funny locusts are fighting
over tiny little misunderstandings
it's not funny that you used my name
she knew you'd get another prescription
living in hysterical hills
dying down in cliche canyon
getting out of the canyon
driving to the euphoric heights
they throw such killer parties
everyone gets pretty nice
people start touching people
people that they don't even like
we get out the canyon
we'll be hiking to the euphoric heights
we're going on a hike
we're trying to reach the peak of the euphoric heights and that's right
we do it almost every night
we come out from the mountain
with a fond farewell from out hosts
they throw such killer parties
everybody gets pretty close
i only know three sure things
the father son and holy ghost
we look off of the mountain
at the bloodshed down below (you know there's bloodshed down below)
we come into the prairie
like lazy laying out in the heat
a couple motels and a couple saloons
thinking we need a couple weeks off
i saw a small town parade and the lead majorette made me feel all weak in the knees
hot child in the city in the middle of the prairie waving out in the heat
waving out in the heat
because you can't get to heaven from down drinking
you get tired when you're halfway up the mount
we're going on a hike
we're trying to reach the peak of the Euphoric Heights and that's right
we do it almost every night
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
when we get off everything's soft
everything is just kinda floating
everything is sparkling and everything is soft
everything is just kinda floating
we were hanging at a rock and roll club
it was painted just like hell
the bar was plywood painted black
they had skull marks up on the shelves
they throw such killer parties
but some nights you don't feel so well
but you shouldn't be the singer in a be-yourself band if you don't want to be yourself
Lyrics submitted by anonymiad
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It's "you can't get to heaven from down Cliche Canyon."
It sounds nothing like "you can't get to heaven from down drinking"