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"
You
You and I made a pact
A deal that as we lay dying
We'd think about each other then
And smile as we're taken in
I
I listened like a little child
To the story of your earthbound pilot
He plummeted so violent
A parachute not opening
And rushing to oblivion
He broke into that knowing grin
I
I think about that a lot
Cause a lot is what I've not got
And a smile is what I least expect
In the clutches of this darkness
You
You I was surprised to hear
Your birdsong velvet in my ear
The phone broke its silent stint
I pulled the cord and I needed it
You billowed like a bowl of silk
And slowed me from my ruining
You and I made a pact
A deal that as we lay dying
We'd think about each other then
And smile as we're taken in
I
I listened like a little child
To the story of your earthbound pilot
He plummeted so violent
A parachute not opening
And rushing to oblivion
He broke into that knowing grin
I
I think about that a lot
Cause a lot is what I've not got
And a smile is what I least expect
In the clutches of this darkness
You
You I was surprised to hear
Your birdsong velvet in my ear
The phone broke its silent stint
I pulled the cord and I needed it
You billowed like a bowl of silk
And slowed me from my ruining
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We Made a Pact Lyrics as written by Timothy John Baker
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You and I made a pact A deal that as we lay dying We'd think about each other then And smile as we're taken in
I feel this is straight forward to the title of the song, 2 people (friends, lovers, etc) making a pact that when they come to the end of their lives they will think of each other.
I listened like a little child To the story of your earthbound pilot He plummeted so violent A parachute not opening And rushing to oblivion He broke into that knowing grin
"I listened like a little child" indicates to me that this is an adult enamored with a story being told to them. "earthbound pilot" to me that means someone falling to the earth from an airplane (crashed? skydiver? IDK) the part about the parachute not opening and the rushing to oblivion is obvious, i'm curious about the "he broke into that knowing grin" to me it is either the story teller grinning, or the earthbound pilot facing death with a grin.
I think about that a lot Cause a lot is what I've not got And a smile is what I least expect In the clutches of this darkness
"a lot is what I've not got" to me means that the singer/author is older now and dying soon, or perhaps is ill and dying. "a smile is what I least expect in the clutches of this darkness" the singer is not expecting kindness, maybe he is older now in a nursing home and no one is visiting him, he is spending a lot of time remembering his past.
You I was surprised to hear Your birdsong velvet in my ear The phone broke its silent stint I pulled the cord and I needed it You billowed like a bowl of silk And slowed me from my ruining
pretty obvious this part is about getting a call from a former friend or lover, and being happy and grateful to hear from them. talking to that person eases their depression or "slowed me from my ruining"