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"
Keep climbing into my head without knockin'
And you fix yourself there like a map pin
On this ghost of this street where I'm livin'
I'm in a chrysalis and I'm snowed in
Darling, darling that dam's gonna give
It's inevitable the way that you live
Bottles in brown paper and a mouth that slurs
All the shit that it stirs
Let that dogwood blossom
There'll be hell to pay in heaven
For you take every street home
What happens when you're into deep to break
Loneliness keeps you constantly awake
What happens when the passage of time appears
You see yourself as a child and it brings you to tears
You say that you're troubled and you always have been
Uncomfortable in your own skin
So you contemplate the riverbed
Turn off the dark thoughts in your head
Darling, darling that dam's gonna give
It's inevitable the way that you live
Bottles in brown paper and a mouth that slurs
All the shit that it stirs
Let that dogwood blossom
There'll be hell to pay in heaven
For you take every street home
And you fix yourself there like a map pin
On this ghost of this street where I'm livin'
I'm in a chrysalis and I'm snowed in
Darling, darling that dam's gonna give
It's inevitable the way that you live
Bottles in brown paper and a mouth that slurs
All the shit that it stirs
Let that dogwood blossom
There'll be hell to pay in heaven
For you take every street home
What happens when you're into deep to break
Loneliness keeps you constantly awake
What happens when the passage of time appears
You see yourself as a child and it brings you to tears
You say that you're troubled and you always have been
Uncomfortable in your own skin
So you contemplate the riverbed
Turn off the dark thoughts in your head
Darling, darling that dam's gonna give
It's inevitable the way that you live
Bottles in brown paper and a mouth that slurs
All the shit that it stirs
Let that dogwood blossom
There'll be hell to pay in heaven
For you take every street home
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I think this song is about depression. But this is just my interpretation.
It's the feeling of having memories of someone or knowledge that they care about you. But you feel too far gone to acknowledge their concern. The feeling of being stuck in a situation, in a town, somewhere that has created these bad memories that have left you in this state of depression.
When you feel as though you could break at any moment, but at the same time you are too afraid to. So you occupy your mind with alcohol, or something else. You end up saying things you don't mean, maybe even pushing people around you away.
Lying awake at night, feeling empty and alone, unable to cry or sleep. But still unable to ignore the feeling. You close your eyes and let your mind drift, it takes you to memories so far back as you try to retrace your footsteps to see 'what went wrong'. But then you remember what it was like to be a child, to be innocent, to have wonder. And you want nothing but to feel that again.
You then admit to yourself/another that you are troubled. You think about leaving Earth, but you know that wont change anything. Whether it's pride or sense, you decide against it.
It's about making your way through all this, and building yourself through experience, awareness and living in the moment.
@Alexiskaylen I just discovered this song (and artist) on Normal People. I think the question you’ve given a strong reply to is “Who is You?” If you is depression, it makes sense. It enters without knocking and fixes itself like a map pin. But “Darlin”? The dam giving makes sense, the drinking the shit talking. Some part of me thinks he is talking to somebody else there. Your interpretation returns sense. With the verse about discomfort in skin, seeing yourself age and remembering childhood Brings you tears.. But I’m not sure about that chorus “Darlin Darrlin that dans gonna give,. It’s inevitable the way that you live. And the person who drinks from a bottle in a brown bag and slurs iinsults. Maybe those lines remind me so distinctly of somebody I know that I want her to hear them, whereas the remainder of the lyrics do not remind me of this girl. And it is played twice in Normal People during times. When they finally make love after painful distance from each other. The girl character Marianne suffers from really low self esteem while the male character can get depressed and does, but he is able to give love like a balm. Why put this song in those scenes?. I think I’m going to come around to your interpretation completely and no matter what, I thank you for sharing it. This song makes me cry.
@Alexiskaylen beautiful, thank you!<br />