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"
Shadows on the water,
From a memory that turns inside;
From the last time I saw you happier,
Than I’ve seen you
Than I’ve seen you in a long while
And all these faces, oh how they adore you
With every blessing; every strength of a storm.
And it seems to me it all worked out so different
Funny how distance and time they don't change at all
So may your worries,
May your worries
Never fall to loud
Oh may you stay here,
May you stay here
Happy in your own skin,
On the ninth cloud
Cold to every warning,
Oh these ships that passed through, oh years before
And bolder now than a brand new morning
Oh the sun on your face, the bruise and the breaks of these careless arms
So hold your body,
Hold your body
Strong in these winds that blind
And may I find you,
May we sit together when we're grey and old,
On cloud nine
On cloud nine
Cloud nine
This life will move you with every step outside,
It's alright, it's alright;
My arms are open wide for you
This life will move you as graceful as the tide
Oh it's alright, it's alright;
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
I loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you
From a memory that turns inside;
From the last time I saw you happier,
Than I’ve seen you
Than I’ve seen you in a long while
And all these faces, oh how they adore you
With every blessing; every strength of a storm.
And it seems to me it all worked out so different
Funny how distance and time they don't change at all
So may your worries,
May your worries
Never fall to loud
Oh may you stay here,
May you stay here
Happy in your own skin,
On the ninth cloud
Cold to every warning,
Oh these ships that passed through, oh years before
And bolder now than a brand new morning
Oh the sun on your face, the bruise and the breaks of these careless arms
So hold your body,
Hold your body
Strong in these winds that blind
And may I find you,
May we sit together when we're grey and old,
On cloud nine
On cloud nine
Cloud nine
This life will move you with every step outside,
It's alright, it's alright;
My arms are open wide for you
This life will move you as graceful as the tide
Oh it's alright, it's alright;
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
I loosen the fears that fears that bind you,
Loosen the fears that fears that bind you
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So Ben wrote this song for his sister.. I thought of thinking in more depth into the lyrics with literacy, so correct me if I'm wrong. Could nine as a word means 'perfect state of happiness'. In the song he says ''Happy in your own skin, On the ninth cloud'' indicating he's telling her to be happy because the last time he saw her, he says ''I saw you happier''. he still wants to be in contact and maybe even wishing to be a longer life along with his sister because he says ''May we sit together when Grey and old''. ''My arms are open wide for you '' suggest he would welcome her back with a open wide arm and give her a hug. His family may be missing her because she's away ''And all these faces, oh how they adore you''. He uses a lot of metaphors in his songs, particularly this one and I like the one in his first sentence ''Shadows on the water, From a memory that turns inside''. Ben is reminiscing and the shadows on the water is a metaphor for blurry. faint image of their past.