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"
The party is over
I'm tired but sober
I think my coat was on the bed
I bet you wonder why I linger
I'm rarely the last to leave
This is the last time
This is the last time
If choices depend on situations
You've done the same, the same in my shoes
But I held an axe that could've felled a path but
I was too scared to go it alone
This is the last time that you will see me
I guess it's now or never to tell me how you're feelin'
This is the last time that you will see me
I guess it's now or never to tell you how I'm feelin'
We once thought we'd have unlimited time
Just keep flying west
The sun won't set on us
I've rigged the watch on your wrist
With secret Swiss crystal tines of pitch
I feel alive when weather is violent
I live to smell the change in the air
Thunder and lightning
Hasten their timing
We must be in close range
This is the last time
This is the last time
This is the last time
I'm tired but sober
I think my coat was on the bed
I bet you wonder why I linger
I'm rarely the last to leave
This is the last time
This is the last time
If choices depend on situations
You've done the same, the same in my shoes
But I held an axe that could've felled a path but
I was too scared to go it alone
This is the last time that you will see me
I guess it's now or never to tell me how you're feelin'
This is the last time that you will see me
I guess it's now or never to tell you how I'm feelin'
We once thought we'd have unlimited time
Just keep flying west
The sun won't set on us
I've rigged the watch on your wrist
With secret Swiss crystal tines of pitch
I feel alive when weather is violent
I live to smell the change in the air
Thunder and lightning
Hasten their timing
We must be in close range
This is the last time
This is the last time
This is the last time
Lyrics submitted by tgbrow
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"We once thought we'd have unlimited time" fits better with the theme of prolonging everything (rigged watch, flying with the sun, etc).
And, I'm not sure, but it sounds like "We must be in close range" at the end of that refrain.
Thanks again =) I think you're right about both. The only reason I ended up settling on "fork's range" was because (a) I couldn't get myself to hear anything else and (b) I was thinking about "forks" of lightning. I will change these right now...
Anyone have other thoughts for the "With secrets with crystal times of pitch" line? That was just my best approximation. Or alternately, does anyone have an explanation as to how that line as I've written it could make more than just vague sense?
"if choices depend on situations you've done the same in my shoes but I held an axe that coulda felled a path but I's too scared to go it alone
we once thought we'd have unlimited time just keep flying west the sun won't set on us i've rigged the watch on your wrist with secret swiss tines off pitch
I feel alive when the weather's violent i live to smell the change in the air the thunder and lightning hasten their timing we must be in close range"
via ramonafalls.com/ReadProphet.txt (I only posted the stanzas that were incorrect)
I'm guess this has to do with prolonging a relationship, when you know there's an inevitable end to it, like one partner is moving away, going to college, etc.
What with the whole "This is the last time you will see me" and "we thought we had unlimited time" I'm getting the vibe that there's someone in his life he has to let go, but he is reluctant to do so.
Furthermore, people use the amount of time between when you see lightning and hear thunder as a sort of tool for determining how far away a storm is. I think The Space Between Lightning and Thunder plays into this because he's coming down to the inevitable moment of breakup.<br /> <br /> Also,<br /> <br /> But I held an axe that could've felled a path but<br /> I was too scared to go it alone<br /> <br /> I think these lines mean that he could have ended it ages ago, but he was afraid of being alone/being without his significant other.