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 raining cats and dogs and I'm soaked right through the skin
Running blind in the God given light, is where I've been
It's plans to be laid, deals to be made
Price to be paid and prayers to be said
For God only knows where I lay my head
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
My head is bowed as the wind blows hard and the rain is beating cruel
Walking on water barefoot, in this whirlpool
Gods for plays and days on days
? on ?, these words of play
Give me strength and give me praise and ?? could I lay
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me you name
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me you name
Come on baby light my fire, come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire, come on baby light my fire
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Come and get it
It's been a long time since I rock 'n' rolled
It's been a long time since I did that stroll
Let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back
Let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
?
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I hear you calling Marian
I hear you calling Marian
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Running blind in the God given light, is where I've been
It's plans to be laid, deals to be made
Price to be paid and prayers to be said
For God only knows where I lay my head
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
My head is bowed as the wind blows hard and the rain is beating cruel
Walking on water barefoot, in this whirlpool
Gods for plays and days on days
? on ?, these words of play
Give me strength and give me praise and ?? could I lay
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me you name
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me you name
Come on baby light my fire, come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire, come on baby light my fire
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Come and get it
It's been a long time since I rock 'n' rolled
It's been a long time since I did that stroll
Let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back
Let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
?
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I hear you calling Marian
I hear you calling Marian
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
Give me shelter, shelter from the storm
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Shelter from the Storm [Live; Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track] Lyrics as written by Mick Brown Craig David Adams
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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