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 am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
Overcast by your shadow
As our worlds move on
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
There's a crane knocking down
All those things that we were
I awake in the night
To hear the engines pout
There's a pain, it does ripple
Through my frame, makes me lame
There's a thorn in my side
It's the shame, it's the prize
Of you and me, ever-changing
Moving on now, moving fast
And this touch must be wanted
Must become through your ask
But I need Jake to tell you
That I love you, it never rests
And I bled every day now
For a year, for a year
I did send you a note
On the wind for to read
Our names there together
Must've fallen like a seed
To the depths of the soil
Buried deep in the ground
On the wind, I can hear you
Call my name, held the sounds
I am lost, I am lost
In a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost
Now our rainbow is gone
Overcast by your shadow
As our worlds move on
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
There's a crane knocking down
All those things that we were
I awake in the night
To hear the engines pout
There's a pain, it does ripple
Through my frame, makes me lame
There's a thorn in my side
It's the shame, it's the prize
Of you and me, ever-changing
Moving on now, moving fast
And this touch must be wanted
Must become through your ask
But I need Jake to tell you
That I love you, it never rests
And I bled every day now
For a year, for a year
I did send you a note
On the wind for to read
Our names there together
Must've fallen like a seed
To the depths of the soil
Buried deep in the ground
On the wind, I can hear you
Call my name, held the sounds
I am lost, I am lost
In a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost
Lyrics submitted by Wunderkind92, edited by apt, LukeUs, ottfangirl, madlyricist, melanie116, DealWithGod
In This Shirt Lyrics as written by James Gerard Mcdermott
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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