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 might be a part of this
Ripple on water from a lonesome drip
A fallen tree that witness me
I'm alone, him and me
And then life itself can not aspire
To have someone be so admired
I threw creation to my king
With the silence broken by a whispered wind
All of this can be broken
All of this can be broken
Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground
And root to root and tip to tip
I look at him my country gip
Let it up I own his fears
But someone brought you close to tears
Many trains and many miles
Like you to me on this sunny isle
And what of which you wish to speak
Have you come here to rescue me?
All of this can be broken
All of this can be broken
Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground
But the love of your life
Lives but lies no more
And where she lay a flower grows
The arms are fed and the babes have wed
And the backs have bled, keeping her in tow
But I am your keeper
And I hold your face away from light
I am yours till they come
I am yours till they come
Eye to eye
Nose to nose
Ripping off each other's clothes
In a most peculiar way
Eye to eye
Nose to nose
Ripping off each other's clothes
In a most peculiar way
Ripple on water from a lonesome drip
A fallen tree that witness me
I'm alone, him and me
And then life itself can not aspire
To have someone be so admired
I threw creation to my king
With the silence broken by a whispered wind
All of this can be broken
All of this can be broken
Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground
And root to root and tip to tip
I look at him my country gip
Let it up I own his fears
But someone brought you close to tears
Many trains and many miles
Like you to me on this sunny isle
And what of which you wish to speak
Have you come here to rescue me?
All of this can be broken
All of this can be broken
Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground
But the love of your life
Lives but lies no more
And where she lay a flower grows
The arms are fed and the babes have wed
And the backs have bled, keeping her in tow
But I am your keeper
And I hold your face away from light
I am yours till they come
I am yours till they come
Eye to eye
Nose to nose
Ripping off each other's clothes
In a most peculiar way
Eye to eye
Nose to nose
Ripping off each other's clothes
In a most peculiar way
Lyrics submitted by elliellielliellie, edited by smallwonderrobot
Devil's Spoke Lyrics as written by Laura Beatrice Marling
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This beautiful song is all about her sensing sorry for him in the relationship, as before, he was lonely and forlorn (a fallen tree that witnessed me and, ripple on water from a lonesome drip) and so he came to her, having passionate feelings towards her, she couldn’t deny his affections as she felt so blameworthy for his pain(Let it up I own his fears But someone brought you close to tears.) She passed the time, delaying for him to fall in love with another or for him to leave her (But I am your keeper and I hold your face away from light, I am yours until they come) He never did, and this made her unhappy (But the love of your life, lives but lies no more, and where she lay a flower grows. ), this means, that 'the flower' is a beautiful memory, she is reminiscing back to when she was happy, before she knew him. But then latterly, it all came together and they ended up together, a love assembled. She was like his guardian angel, his protector, she protected him from reality and the truth, but when she confessed they were in harmony because of it?
(Eye to eye Nose to nose ripping off eachothers clothes in the most perculiar way. )
the chorus, (All of this can be broken All of this can be broken Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground.) is when laura is talking how the relationship will end ultimately, and how it will 'break' [apart], and the last line, is a pun, as speak of the devil! is a phrase where an irrelevant topic is brought up in day to day conversations, so an abrupt change in feeling is what she is talking about here. what i have deduced from the last line is that she is, in simpler words, saying, control the uncontrollable, deny your affections. but she discovers she is wrong at the end verse of the song.
beautiful beautiful song :)