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"
As fireworks burst over the land,
I could've sworn I felt the influence of an unseen hand -
the ghost of someone else's dream,
a forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene.
And the lights were complicated and so we all just
prayed to the spirits above and below
that the water would never reach us in time,
but I had a feeling that we'd never get to 2009...
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah,
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
and now's as good as any as a time and place to begin...
On TV, they said the storms wouldn't last
but their answers didn't correlate to the questions we'd asked.
They said "A spark that's gone is not a spark to mourn,
you can't resuscitate a person who was never born."
So I climbed to the tallest building in town
to see the rain rushing in, to feel my heart breaking down
and as the blue sheen drew nearer I saw a window to another world,
strange fish I'd never seen, and in that moment I realized:
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
and now's as good as any as a time and place to begin...
I should have known this was coming, yeah,
it could not have been more obvious.
Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
except bigger and more ominous.
I should have known this was unfolding, yeah,
it could not have been more obvious.
Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
except bigger and more ominous.
Every moment lost someone else has won,
every time you breathe there's another gone.
Every passing second is a minute late,
every breath can escalate a hurricane.
And do you think we'd realize just what we'd done -
tore down the canvas that held up the sun?
We ripped down the canvas hung up above,
but what if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah,
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
I could've sworn I felt the influence of an unseen hand -
the ghost of someone else's dream,
a forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene.
And the lights were complicated and so we all just
prayed to the spirits above and below
that the water would never reach us in time,
but I had a feeling that we'd never get to 2009...
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah,
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
and now's as good as any as a time and place to begin...
On TV, they said the storms wouldn't last
but their answers didn't correlate to the questions we'd asked.
They said "A spark that's gone is not a spark to mourn,
you can't resuscitate a person who was never born."
So I climbed to the tallest building in town
to see the rain rushing in, to feel my heart breaking down
and as the blue sheen drew nearer I saw a window to another world,
strange fish I'd never seen, and in that moment I realized:
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
and now's as good as any as a time and place to begin...
I should have known this was coming, yeah,
it could not have been more obvious.
Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
except bigger and more ominous.
I should have known this was unfolding, yeah,
it could not have been more obvious.
Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
except bigger and more ominous.
Every moment lost someone else has won,
every time you breathe there's another gone.
Every passing second is a minute late,
every breath can escalate a hurricane.
And do you think we'd realize just what we'd done -
tore down the canvas that held up the sun?
We ripped down the canvas hung up above,
but what if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?
Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah,
we didn't want to swim but the cities were sinking
and though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
the ground that was shaking and the bass was thumping.
Lyrics submitted by mmcglathery
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Quote from the band website. jukeboxtheghost.com/site
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