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"
You know we can't get away
Because I'm calling your name
Every day I feel this pain
But you just turn and walk away
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
With you and me
Touch me and then turn away
Put your hands into the flame
Tell me if you feel this pain
'cause I don't want to be your ball and chain
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
With you and me
With you and me
Me
Oh oh
Me
Pain
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what what is wrong
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
Because I'm calling your name
Every day I feel this pain
But you just turn and walk away
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
With you and me
Touch me and then turn away
Put your hands into the flame
Tell me if you feel this pain
'cause I don't want to be your ball and chain
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
With you and me
With you and me
Me
Oh oh
Me
Pain
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what is wrong
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
I just don't know what what is wrong
I just can't keep hanging on
To you and me
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Wow.
So amazing. I only just found him tonight, and am I so glad to have. Beautiful voice.
here's my take on the lyrics:
the narrator knows that he shouldn't be with this person, but there's something that keeps him around (whether the other person is stringing him along on purpose or what, who knows). he's also not quite sure what happened between them and maybe that's the reason he can't let go. he needs closure and wants answers.
yes. real good. very good.
this song is going to be on repeat for a long time.
So so so good
I love this song. It's meaning is similar to 'into deep' by genesis. He's at odds with where the relationship with someone who isn't into it like he is.
I think it
s about a relationship in which they try to love each other but it just doesnt work out the way they want it toThe true image of the song is really defined best by the video. The older fisherman and the younger. It's portraying him (the older fisherman) searching for the youth and beauty in life when he was young, before life started dragging him down, his ball and chain. "I can't keep hanging on" speaking about the beauty in life that he was searching for so hopelessly (wildly casting the pole, even getting out into the water, a panicked look on his face.) He was searching so hard for hope and beauty in life that he killed himself. Not purposefully but fatefully. "I can't keep hanging on to you and me" he couldn't continue hanging on to life with out beauty and hope.
That's just my opinion! Hope you like it.