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'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that it is time to go home
Oh yeah it's time to go home
Oh I wonder would what it would be like, to believe in the afterlife
I'd probably smile every time I sang
I'd probably gun around town shouting some obscure ancient man's name
No, I don't believe in the afterlife
I believe there's a thing called a gun, and there are things called knives
I believe they can destroy everything that you are inside
I believe nothing escapes once they decide
I know it's not easy being green
orbiting the biggest star in the galaxy, me
you're just a moon
you shine through
but you reflect me too
you're just a moon
when you die too, more will be born to project through
but when my supernova hits
maybe you will escape it
yeah, when I supernova split
maybe you will escape it
yeah, when I supernova split
maybe you will escape it
and you can tell the tale of the flame
who up and changed his name
you can tell them how super I became
yeah, you can tell them what it sounded like when I fried the final brain
cause you can glorify the old pages
and be responsible for the new cages
or you can say to hell with me
and you can get creative
so yeah, 666
you can call me a beast
but dial 666 when you decide it's time to come back and talk to me
I'll be waiting in the clouds
I've been shaping them into our new house
and when I hear the doorbell
I'll run and cover up my sulfur smell
untangle my hair, hood my horns to greet you
don't look up at them, look at what's underneath you
we're in the clouds
we're in the clouds
we're in the clouds
right above jerusalem
don't mind the flies
baby, you'll get used to them
we're in the clouds
right above jerusalem
don't mind the flies
baby, you'll get used to them
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the show
Letting everybody know that it is time to go home
Oh yeah, it's time to go home
Oh that it's time to go home
Oh yeah, it's time to go home
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that it is time to go home
Oh yeah it's time to go home
Oh I wonder would what it would be like, to believe in the afterlife
I'd probably smile every time I sang
I'd probably gun around town shouting some obscure ancient man's name
No, I don't believe in the afterlife
I believe there's a thing called a gun, and there are things called knives
I believe they can destroy everything that you are inside
I believe nothing escapes once they decide
I know it's not easy being green
orbiting the biggest star in the galaxy, me
you're just a moon
you shine through
but you reflect me too
you're just a moon
when you die too, more will be born to project through
but when my supernova hits
maybe you will escape it
yeah, when I supernova split
maybe you will escape it
yeah, when I supernova split
maybe you will escape it
and you can tell the tale of the flame
who up and changed his name
you can tell them how super I became
yeah, you can tell them what it sounded like when I fried the final brain
cause you can glorify the old pages
and be responsible for the new cages
or you can say to hell with me
and you can get creative
so yeah, 666
you can call me a beast
but dial 666 when you decide it's time to come back and talk to me
I'll be waiting in the clouds
I've been shaping them into our new house
and when I hear the doorbell
I'll run and cover up my sulfur smell
untangle my hair, hood my horns to greet you
don't look up at them, look at what's underneath you
we're in the clouds
we're in the clouds
we're in the clouds
right above jerusalem
don't mind the flies
baby, you'll get used to them
we're in the clouds
right above jerusalem
don't mind the flies
baby, you'll get used to them
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the road
Letting everybody know that they are almost back home
I'll be the bright white light at the end of the show
Letting everybody know that it is time to go home
Oh yeah, it's time to go home
Oh that it's time to go home
Oh yeah, it's time to go home
Lyrics submitted by adiverrdescends, edited by SoBrokenHearted
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ifyoumakeit.com/video/weatherbox/love-me-a-good-microcosm/
I hear:
"Untangle my hair, hood my horns to greet you."
But other than that, great job.