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"
In the middle of the night, I may watch you go
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
But I'd be yours if you'd be mine
Stretch out my life and pick the seams out
Take what you like, but close my ears and eyes
Watch me stumble over and over
I have done wrong, you build your tower
But call me home and I will build a throne
And wash my eyes out never again
But love the one you hold
And I'll be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
Skin too tight and eyes like marbles
You spin me high, so watch me as I glide
Before I tumble homeward, homeward
I know I tried, I was not stable
Flawed by pride, I miss my sanguine eyes
So hold my hands up, breathe in and breathe out
So love the one you hold
And I'll be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show
But I'd be yours if you'd be mine
So love the one you hold
And I will be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
So love the one you hold
And I will be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
But I'd be yours if you'd be mine
Stretch out my life and pick the seams out
Take what you like, but close my ears and eyes
Watch me stumble over and over
I have done wrong, you build your tower
But call me home and I will build a throne
And wash my eyes out never again
But love the one you hold
And I'll be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
Skin too tight and eyes like marbles
You spin me high, so watch me as I glide
Before I tumble homeward, homeward
I know I tried, I was not stable
Flawed by pride, I miss my sanguine eyes
So hold my hands up, breathe in and breathe out
So love the one you hold
And I'll be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show
But I'd be yours if you'd be mine
So love the one you hold
And I will be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
So love the one you hold
And I will be your goal
To have and to hold
A lover of the light
Lyrics submitted by like_letting_go, edited by oliviahh, Mellow_Harsher, kayb97, mrswinnie
Lover Of The Light Lyrics as written by Edward James Milton Dwane Benjamin Walter David Lovett
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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In the middle of the night, I may watch you go There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown But I'd be yours if you'll be mine
I think this song is about a friends-with-benefits situation. He watches her leave in the middle of the night after they've hooked up. He has built up these strong feeling or 'walls' towards her but at the end of the night, they are meaningless. He doesn't find comfort in the shadows thrown either (their shadowy figures in the dimly lit room.)
Stretch out my life and pick the seams out Take what you like, but close my ears and eyes Watch me stumble over and over
He falls apart without her. It is as though he is made of cloth and she is making him come undone. Maybe this guy was a "player" in the past and its his first time being in a situation where he is not the one in control. "Take what you'd like." He is surrendering to her. They keep hooking up over and over again.
I had done wrong, so build your tower But call me home and I will build a throne And wash my eyes out never again
This guy, being the player that he is, has done this same routine with girls in the past and she knows that. He is telling her that he understands why she shouldn't trust him. But, if they make their relationship public (call me home), he'll treat her like a queen basically. He won't treat her like he's treated all the girls in his past.
But love the one you hold And I'll be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light
Skin too tight and eyes like marbles You spin me high so watch me as I glide Before I tumble homeward, homeward
She is young and hold no romantic emotions towards him. She makes him so happy when they are together but when the sex is over, he crashes back to reality.
I know I've tried, I was not stable And flawed by pride, I miss my sanguine eyes So hold my hands up . . . breathe in and breathe out
He's tried to have a relationship with her before but he was not ready. he was immature and slept around with other girls (flawed by pride).
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show But I'd be yours if you'd be mine
He promises her change from his old womanizer ways.
So love the one you hold And I'll will be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light
They hold each other at night and he is telling her to give him a chance and make their relationship more than just sex.
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