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 like your face and you like mine too
I like your face and you like mine too
Your looks are legend
And the legend is true
I like your face and you like mine too
Stereo's on but nobody's dancing
Nobody knows what they're talking about
There is no Golden Age fashion
At least not in this town
So when I turned my head to cry
I had to dry my eye
I saw the tortoise from the sea
Swimming you back to me
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
I like your fangs and you like mine too
I like your fangs and you like mine too
That bite is legend
And the legend is true
I like your fangs and you like mine too
It's been so long since rust made a racket
All the friars like to rock 'n' roll
But there underneath the dust jacket
That's where the legend will go
So when I turned my head to cry
I had to dry my eye
I saw the tortoise from the sea
Swimming you back to me
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
So that is why I cry
I can see what takes a mention
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
In the stagecoach on the highway
Will you be a-going my way?
Forsooth!
In the cottage on the green
Through the castle of the queen
Quite right!
Lords and ladies clap and sing
As raven clips his broken wing
Indeed!
So on a fortnight journey's sting
Ask yourself do you like tings?
(Me like tings!)
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
So that is why I cry
I can see what takes a mention
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
I like your face and you like mine too
Your looks are legend
And the legend is true
I like your face and you like mine too
Stereo's on but nobody's dancing
Nobody knows what they're talking about
There is no Golden Age fashion
At least not in this town
So when I turned my head to cry
I had to dry my eye
I saw the tortoise from the sea
Swimming you back to me
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
I like your fangs and you like mine too
I like your fangs and you like mine too
That bite is legend
And the legend is true
I like your fangs and you like mine too
It's been so long since rust made a racket
All the friars like to rock 'n' roll
But there underneath the dust jacket
That's where the legend will go
So when I turned my head to cry
I had to dry my eye
I saw the tortoise from the sea
Swimming you back to me
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
So that is why I cry
I can see what takes a mention
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
In the stagecoach on the highway
Will you be a-going my way?
Forsooth!
In the cottage on the green
Through the castle of the queen
Quite right!
Lords and ladies clap and sing
As raven clips his broken wing
Indeed!
So on a fortnight journey's sting
Ask yourself do you like tings?
(Me like tings!)
And there across the sky
I can see what makes the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
So that is why I cry
I can see what takes a mention
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
And it's you
Yeah, you are the legend
The legend is true
Lyrics submitted by Skibz777
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