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 will shape myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick your habit
Just to fill your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird lights float into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around the pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick your habit
Just to fill your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird lights float into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around the pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
Lyrics submitted by lysoljackson, edited by George0312, urwellkeen
Lotus Flower Lyrics as written by Edward John O'brien Colin Charles Greenwood
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I have a very different interpretation to most of the others posted here. To me this is a song about escaping from a controlling relationship.
"I will shape myself into your pocket / Invisible / Do what you want" - he starts off doing what the other person wants to make the relationship work.
"I will shrink and I will disappear / I will slip into the groove and cut me off" - he is sublimating his own identity to what the other person wants him to be.
"There's an empty space inside my heart / Where the weeds take root / And now I'll set you free" - the empty space is where his love for the other person used to be. The weeds are the slowly creeping and growing doubt about the relationship, and he is beginning to want to get out of the relationship.
"Slowly we unfurl / As lotus flowers" - he is beginning to understand who he is despite the control of the other person and blossom into his true self.
"'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick / Just to see what if / Just to see what is" - he is becoming selfish, wanting everything despite the other person.
"I can't kick your habit / Just to fill your fast ballooning head" - this is a confusing line. I think he means he doesn't want to satisfy the other person's ego.
"We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice / And while the cat is away / Do what we want" - as the relationship breaks down and they attend to each other less, they drift away and start to explore other options (perhaps an affair).