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"
Wakin' up this morning
Saw the sun come through my blinds
And I looked up on the porch
And found an owl shrieking by
But never could I have imagined
Such a place like this
And you're lyin' next to me
I wanna wake you with a kiss
And all the crazy things about you
That I so adore
Are the little things that keep me
Coming back for more
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
I will go wherever you go
Take me where you lead
Lead me where you want
My heart doesn't know
Anything but what you say
You're the one for me
You make me feel complete
I can silent read your whisper
And my lips still feel your touch
And I'm oh so glad to be here
Oh so glad to be here
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
But you and I have walked the oceans
Miles along the shore
And a thousand seagulls called on me
So we came right back for more
And I love to feel the water
It makes me feel so free
Underneath the purple sky
Every time you look at me
I reach up to forever
With the promises you keep
They fill me with such happiness
It makes my heart believe
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
How many lovers
Have walked along the shore before
Before you and I
How many said goodbye
Saw the sun come through my blinds
And I looked up on the porch
And found an owl shrieking by
But never could I have imagined
Such a place like this
And you're lyin' next to me
I wanna wake you with a kiss
And all the crazy things about you
That I so adore
Are the little things that keep me
Coming back for more
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
I will go wherever you go
Take me where you lead
Lead me where you want
My heart doesn't know
Anything but what you say
You're the one for me
You make me feel complete
I can silent read your whisper
And my lips still feel your touch
And I'm oh so glad to be here
Oh so glad to be here
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
But you and I have walked the oceans
Miles along the shore
And a thousand seagulls called on me
So we came right back for more
And I love to feel the water
It makes me feel so free
Underneath the purple sky
Every time you look at me
I reach up to forever
With the promises you keep
They fill me with such happiness
It makes my heart believe
[Chorus]
And it feels like love, and it feels so good
I wanna feel like the roarin' thunder
Wanna be the heaven that your sky is under
Oh, I say, you say, oh (It's like love)
All that I need, baby it's true
The sand on my feet and you
How many lovers
Have walked along the shore before
Before you and I
How many said goodbye
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Sand on My Feet Lyrics as written by Donna Summer Tobias Gad
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