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"
Oh, what did I say?
She's all shook up
Lost in the summer, man
We're burning up
The time don't show
When the sun gets carried
The tide curves off your body
Oh, you'll stay with me
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
Oh, what did I say?
She's all shook up
Vision by the seaside
We moving our hearts
With I don't know
When the fire gets hazy
The flames roll down and off her body
Oh, you'll stay with me
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
So ride, Sherry, ride, Sherry, ride
I will show you
We'll go in the night
Wondering why no one told you
Now I can walk the stones of the shoreline
And taste the ocean salt when the cold shines
My words are rolling soft down your south side
Oh, you won't hide
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
So ride, Sherry, ride, Sherry, ride
I will show you
We'll go in the night
Wondering why no one told you
Why, you know it goes, you know it goes
Why, you know it goes, you know it goes
Why it goes
She's all shook up
Lost in the summer, man
We're burning up
The time don't show
When the sun gets carried
The tide curves off your body
Oh, you'll stay with me
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
Oh, what did I say?
She's all shook up
Vision by the seaside
We moving our hearts
With I don't know
When the fire gets hazy
The flames roll down and off her body
Oh, you'll stay with me
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
So ride, Sherry, ride, Sherry, ride
I will show you
We'll go in the night
Wondering why no one told you
Now I can walk the stones of the shoreline
And taste the ocean salt when the cold shines
My words are rolling soft down your south side
Oh, you won't hide
I, now I will show you
It's how I lie
When no one told you
So ride, Sherry, ride, Sherry, ride
I will show you
We'll go in the night
Wondering why no one told you
Why, you know it goes, you know it goes
Why, you know it goes, you know it goes
Why it goes
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judging by the title, Strings, i think it's about how these two people are tied to one another. in the beginning it seems that she's reluctant and "shook up" because he's revealed to her ("it's how i lie, what no one told you?)that he has a reputation of either being a fake [a liar] or that he's been with [lied with/ slept around with] alot of women . with this knowledge, however, she still feels like there's stings attached between them, which is why he knows ahe'll stay with him. the choruses suggest that he's trying to show her how bad he is for her, to prevent her from getting hurt by him, but he still wants her to stay with him. they're a big mess, they "move in knots" but they stay together. in using a name, Sherry, it implies familiarity; they've grown more accustomed to one another. in the last verse ("now i can walk... oh you won't hide") it's apparent that she now trusts him completely. in the last chorus, he realises this and wants to show her that he'll be good to her ("i will show you/ BUT i won't lie"); either he won't lie to her, or in knowing that she trusts him, he won't "lie" with her and then leave her like he has in the past with others.