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'm a wounded man on top of trees
Gazing at the world below my feet
Fickle feelings find a way to me
Like hard winds blowing when we're lost at sea
Defeated pride
Finally got the chance to let go
Keeping it quiet
Not a worry in the world that we know
I can't decide
If I should let the words spill out at a time like this
Bright skies
But I've been known to stay in on days such as this
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Holding back from what's to come
I crush you
I take it back cause you're all that I've been up to
I can't react and it's numbing me
And taking up all of my time
So quiet
There's more to me that I am yet to find
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Take it slowly
I thought the trees were begging me to climb
Take it slowly
There's more to me that I am yet to find
Take it slowly
Even though you're always on my mind
Take it slowly
There's more to me that I am yet to find
When I get to see your face again
Can't help the way that I have been
When keeping quiet's become a trend
That's why it's hard for me to end
All the countless hours I would spend
Making it work out up in my head
Now I'm filled up with only regret
There is no way to just forget
I'm a wounded man on top of trees
Gazing at the world below my feet
Fickle feelings find a way to me
Like hard winds blowing when we're lost at sea
Gazing at the world below my feet
Fickle feelings find a way to me
Like hard winds blowing when we're lost at sea
Defeated pride
Finally got the chance to let go
Keeping it quiet
Not a worry in the world that we know
I can't decide
If I should let the words spill out at a time like this
Bright skies
But I've been known to stay in on days such as this
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Holding back from what's to come
I crush you
I take it back cause you're all that I've been up to
I can't react and it's numbing me
And taking up all of my time
So quiet
There's more to me that I am yet to find
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Keep it inside
And swallow whatever it is that keeps you warm
Take it slowly
I thought the trees were begging me to climb
Take it slowly
There's more to me that I am yet to find
Take it slowly
Even though you're always on my mind
Take it slowly
There's more to me that I am yet to find
When I get to see your face again
Can't help the way that I have been
When keeping quiet's become a trend
That's why it's hard for me to end
All the countless hours I would spend
Making it work out up in my head
Now I'm filled up with only regret
There is no way to just forget
I'm a wounded man on top of trees
Gazing at the world below my feet
Fickle feelings find a way to me
Like hard winds blowing when we're lost at sea
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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