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"
Since what day has the sun been depressed
It still won't rise, even tomorrow
I cannot fall asleep so easy
For fear that words will over flow from me
WHERE IS THIS PLACE I AM NOW?
A dissatisfaction comes into the mind and lazily breathes
He glares inevitably hopeless and spits it out
I realized that it is pointless so I cut my hair one morning
In losing all of my freedom I am reborn
Show me how to get to anywhere
God of sandcastles so very white
We are so simple and ignorant
Please give us some candy
Because ours was spat out
The very, very blue sky, I overlook it now
Knowing that I can never fly
Such white, white wings are something that I have no need for
So undoubtedly brilliant
Having been dyed so grey, this collar begins to suit me better
A god so very mundane is filled with loathing for himself
He only has love of right-handed learning and desserts
He is content to live in the same town that he was born in
Even a crow would laugh at pleasures such as those
When it comes time to shed my collar
I will not move but to ask "who am I?"
Please give this hideous dog
A beautiful dream of hope
If it's true that you are "god"
Vastly, vastly the sky stretches, and a bird spreads his wings
I wish that I could fly as well
It's a very very big jump and I wish to be alone
If it is at all possible
That vagueness, I would still cling to it
Just how powerless am I like this
The very, very blue sky, I am overlooking it now
Knowing that I can never fly
Such white, white wings are something that I have no need for
So undoubtedly brilliant
Having been dyed this grey, this collar becomes a part of me
The birds are going to fly so soon
When is the time we can return home again
It still won't rise, even tomorrow
I cannot fall asleep so easy
For fear that words will over flow from me
WHERE IS THIS PLACE I AM NOW?
A dissatisfaction comes into the mind and lazily breathes
He glares inevitably hopeless and spits it out
I realized that it is pointless so I cut my hair one morning
In losing all of my freedom I am reborn
Show me how to get to anywhere
God of sandcastles so very white
We are so simple and ignorant
Please give us some candy
Because ours was spat out
The very, very blue sky, I overlook it now
Knowing that I can never fly
Such white, white wings are something that I have no need for
So undoubtedly brilliant
Having been dyed so grey, this collar begins to suit me better
A god so very mundane is filled with loathing for himself
He only has love of right-handed learning and desserts
He is content to live in the same town that he was born in
Even a crow would laugh at pleasures such as those
When it comes time to shed my collar
I will not move but to ask "who am I?"
Please give this hideous dog
A beautiful dream of hope
If it's true that you are "god"
Vastly, vastly the sky stretches, and a bird spreads his wings
I wish that I could fly as well
It's a very very big jump and I wish to be alone
If it is at all possible
That vagueness, I would still cling to it
Just how powerless am I like this
The very, very blue sky, I am overlooking it now
Knowing that I can never fly
Such white, white wings are something that I have no need for
So undoubtedly brilliant
Having been dyed this grey, this collar becomes a part of me
The birds are going to fly so soon
When is the time we can return home again
Lyrics submitted by Lichery
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