This song is about a relationship that is now over and describes most beautifully and painfully the emotions when you should have been with someone forever but you aren't. Not due to lack of love but due to mistakes which starts the song:
Walked when I shoulda run
Ran when I shoulda walked
And don't I know it
And don't I know it
(he didn't act when he should have and acted when he should have, and he realizes that now)
You get inside me
even when you ain't beside me
And I go into hiding
And I know I never leave it alone
(he still thinks of her even if they aint together, and he tries to hide from this feeling, but he knows he will never forget her)
'Nother round of if onlys
Of all the ways you could know me
How I'd take time going slowly
Over time that I did on my own
(and that is what he thinks, 'if only'. How he should have taken time to deal with things slowly instead of doing nothing 'time on his own')
And your head's in the ocean
Too deep to know where you're going
Hoping time can be frozen
And you'll end up where you really belong
(here i think it speaks as a whole, how ur head is a mess and you wish time to be frozen so things can clarify in your head and fix it and be together with the person you should be instead of the next verse:
But the days keep on rolling
We live in different moments
And our hurt is unfolding
Everyday that we do and we don't
(time is not frozen and their lives are passing in different ways with different people, but they are hurt no matter if they do or they dont - like they cant be together and that hurts them and they cant be not together and that hurts them too, so no matter what they do its still hurt)
Sign for what's been
Sign for what never
The line under what's been
The line for what never
(and the end is a summary - to move on and sign for the deeds they done and what they've had and the things that wont happen for them in the future)
And the years are collected
I pray that we are regretless
You and I - the connected
You and I and the blood and the bone
( and the years that will go by with them not together, he hopes they dont regret their decision not to be together, because they were soulmates which sadly didn't work it out - you and i the blood and the bone)
That is how i see that amazing song translating
samsaras09on December 02, 2017 Link
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