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"
It's another call attentive
But I didn't get the message
Forever due this Mother Earth is all my life
'N the more I think it out
about the time we spend together
together we'll be sharing all eternity
It's another day
It's another way
It's another feeling in my heart
And the more I try to get it
'Cause I did not change the weather
So the light that shines is always coming out of you
For it was ever to be given
Ever full of blessings
As the message coming clearer, see it coming through
So I come
Open to your heart
Make this song
True right from the start
We all live together
We belong together
This Mother Earth and I
All this song will always be
Better by reason
God's clear light
Make sure you feel this life
Flow all inside of you now
All this song will always be
Better by children
Let them sing
For always be the Light
It's another day
It's another way
It's another feeling in my heart
So if ever there's a question
So in part there is an answer
Remember that it's always in the heart of you
To begin this conversation
So intent to get the level
In everything your sacred life is going through
All I know
Want to be with you
Day after day
Want to be with you
And the more I think of it
It can never change me
I believe that this is truly for me
All this song will always be
Better by reason
God's clear Light
Make sure you feel this life
Flow all inside of you now
All this song will always be
Better by children
Let then sing
For always be the light
But I didn't get the message
Forever due this Mother Earth is all my life
'N the more I think it out
about the time we spend together
together we'll be sharing all eternity
It's another day
It's another way
It's another feeling in my heart
And the more I try to get it
'Cause I did not change the weather
So the light that shines is always coming out of you
For it was ever to be given
Ever full of blessings
As the message coming clearer, see it coming through
So I come
Open to your heart
Make this song
True right from the start
We all live together
We belong together
This Mother Earth and I
All this song will always be
Better by reason
God's clear light
Make sure you feel this life
Flow all inside of you now
All this song will always be
Better by children
Let them sing
For always be the Light
It's another day
It's another way
It's another feeling in my heart
So if ever there's a question
So in part there is an answer
Remember that it's always in the heart of you
To begin this conversation
So intent to get the level
In everything your sacred life is going through
All I know
Want to be with you
Day after day
Want to be with you
And the more I think of it
It can never change me
I believe that this is truly for me
All this song will always be
Better by reason
God's clear Light
Make sure you feel this life
Flow all inside of you now
All this song will always be
Better by children
Let then sing
For always be the light
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Earthmotherearth Lyrics as written by Jon Anderson
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