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"
Gather matters of the heart
So we can act a fool
It's incomplete without you
The silver soul is running through
It's a vision, complete illusion, yeah
The needle on the spinning wheel
Collecting silver coil
It gathers heat without you
Whether or not you're turned from it
It's a quick turn
To let us in, yeah
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
The bodies lying in the sand
They're moving in the dark
It is so quick to let us in
We feel it moving through our skin
It's a sickness, infinite quickness, yeah
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again
So we can act a fool
It's incomplete without you
The silver soul is running through
It's a vision, complete illusion, yeah
The needle on the spinning wheel
Collecting silver coil
It gathers heat without you
Whether or not you're turned from it
It's a quick turn
To let us in, yeah
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again
The bodies lying in the sand
They're moving in the dark
It is so quick to let us in
We feel it moving through our skin
It's a sickness, infinite quickness, yeah
It is happening again
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again, oh-oh
It is happening again
It is happening again
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In my opinion, silver soul is the story of a how a young girl loses her lover, then starts to comminicate with him, and then ills herself to be with him.
"We gather matters of the heart So we can act a fool" She copes by self medicating (possibly alcohol) and is trying to get back her old life, where she was young and carefree
"It's incomplete without you" She cant get back to herself. She feels incomplete without him in her life
"The sliver soul is running through It's a vision complete illusion yea" Here, it seems like she has an encounter with her lover. However, she is in denial and trys to explain its just an illusion
"The needle on the spinning wheel Collecting silver coil It gathers heat without you Whether or not you're turned from it," It sounds like right here, she is trying to communicate with her lover by playing music that the two enjoyed together. Even though he isn't physically there she feels the connection with him( it gathers heat)
It's a quick turn to let us in yea" Here she is letting go of her skepticism and quickly lets his presence in
"It is happening again It is happening again It is happening again It is happening again" This either means the two are just talking and falling back in love, or they are making love
"The bodies lying in the sand They're moving in the dark" He convinced her to kill herself so the two could be together forever. The two haunt the night together
"It is so quick to let us in Feel it moving through our skin" The two make love while they are dead, and though they are dead, their love allows them to feel alive
"It's a sickness, a manic weakness yea" Here it sounds like others view her as crazy, even mentally ill for doing what she did
Thats just my opinion. I also think teen dream tells their story. They start out by falling in love(10 mile stereo). Then he cheats on her (Zebra) and she doesnt forgive him at first (Norway), but they get back together. However, things aren't the same (used to be, better times). He then contracts a terminal illness and she realizes she still loves him and always had (real love) and she decides to take care of him during his final years (Take care). He then dies and she initially try's to forget about him (Walk in the park), but then she realizes there is in afterlife (walk in the park, silver soul) and ends up killing herself to be with him. Think about it people...