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"
Ruby I hope I see you, I've waited all this week
For you to walk my way, your soul will capture me
Your momma painted your room a shade of pink, she said
But with your great arrival that shade has turned to red
Ruby take my hand, please lead me to the promised land
Tell me, where am I from, your eyes say, shada de da dum
Ruby, you're royalty, in your home land, they all call you queen
Tell me, where are you from, your eyes say, shada de da dum
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
You're true and pure
You hold the cure
We're all diseased
You hold the key
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
You're an angel
You're an angel
You're an angel (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You're an angel (hey, hey, hey)
You're an angel
Tell our dad, I'm sorry
Tell our dad, I'm sorry
Tell our dad, I'm sorry, yeah
(You're an angel) (hey, hey, hey, hey)
(You're an angel) (hey, hey, hey, hey)
For you to walk my way, your soul will capture me
Your momma painted your room a shade of pink, she said
But with your great arrival that shade has turned to red
Ruby take my hand, please lead me to the promised land
Tell me, where am I from, your eyes say, shada de da dum
Ruby, you're royalty, in your home land, they all call you queen
Tell me, where are you from, your eyes say, shada de da dum
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
You're true and pure
You hold the cure
We're all diseased
You hold the key
You're an angel fallen down, won't you tell us of the clouds
You have fallen from the sky, how high, how high?
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
(Hey) tell our dad, I'm sorry (hey)
You're an angel
You're an angel
You're an angel (hey, hey, hey, hey)
You're an angel (hey, hey, hey)
You're an angel
Tell our dad, I'm sorry
Tell our dad, I'm sorry
Tell our dad, I'm sorry, yeah
(You're an angel) (hey, hey, hey, hey)
(You're an angel) (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Lyrics submitted by bookhouseboy23, edited by bleb
Ruby Lyrics as written by Tyler Joseph
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When I first heard the song, I thought of a little sister and a big brother. The lyric "Ruby I hope I see you, I've waited all this week" is saying to me that this brother has been waiting for his sister and finally, she has been born. Her room was painted pink as said in the lyrics. As the brother is praising his sister and her "Eyes" say, "Shada-de da dum" because baby's cannot speak words so I interpret this as musical baby sounds. By the time the lyric "tell our dad I'm sorry" comes along, the baby sister is dead. The older brother was left to watch his sister and something terrible happened that he couldn't control and she died. Her room turned red maybe saying that she died in her room. She an angel and being asked to tell "us" of the clouds. Now, the fact that the brother sounds like he's talking to Ruby might imply that the father is dead and it's only him and the mother. That part can be left up to you.
@Sasha14 That was EXACTLY what I thought was the song about!