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"
If nobody hears it, then how can I listen to you?
If nobody sees it, then why can't I show it to you?
In the depths of my emotion, I'm a spinning wheel;
All the world can feel-
As I delicately rip my heart out, I deserve more for it.
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
If love is a comfort, then why aren't I comforting you?
(Why can't I comfort you?)
If trust is a burden, then who've you entrusted me to?
(Who do you run to?)
I might need some information about letting go-
About hearts full of snow.
And a sadness so contagious,
I've become fond of it, oh...
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
Let me take the faith from your foundation,
Let me take the wrong then make it right.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
And in the end-
It never lasts.
This suffering-
Only joy remains.
I hear your call,
I speak your name-
A lonely prayer,
No one to receive.
Who do you run to?
Ending before I begin.
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
(Stars down from the sky)
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
(I've been here all night)
Ending before I begin.
(I'm ending before I begin)
Let me take the faith from your foundation,
(Take the faith)
Let me take the wrong then make it right.
(I'm gonna make it right)
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
(I've been here all night)
Ending before I begin.
I'm ending before I begin-
It's ending before we begin.
Ending before I begin-
It's ending before I begin.
If nobody sees it, then why can't I show it to you?
In the depths of my emotion, I'm a spinning wheel;
All the world can feel-
As I delicately rip my heart out, I deserve more for it.
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
If love is a comfort, then why aren't I comforting you?
(Why can't I comfort you?)
If trust is a burden, then who've you entrusted me to?
(Who do you run to?)
I might need some information about letting go-
About hearts full of snow.
And a sadness so contagious,
I've become fond of it, oh...
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
Let me take the faith from your foundation,
Let me take the wrong then make it right.
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
Ending before I begin.
And in the end-
It never lasts.
This suffering-
Only joy remains.
I hear your call,
I speak your name-
A lonely prayer,
No one to receive.
Who do you run to?
Ending before I begin.
So let me take the waves out of the ocean,
Let me take the stars down from the sky.
(Stars down from the sky)
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
(I've been here all night)
Ending before I begin.
(I'm ending before I begin)
Let me take the faith from your foundation,
(Take the faith)
Let me take the wrong then make it right.
(I'm gonna make it right)
Let me take away the dark light, I've been here all night-
(I've been here all night)
Ending before I begin.
I'm ending before I begin-
It's ending before we begin.
Ending before I begin-
It's ending before I begin.
Lyrics submitted by darrenhayesfan18
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Thanks!
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