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"
I am right here with you
I couldn't be more close
Pretending that I'm in this moment
When I'm only a ghost
I listen to the words you're saying
Words I'm fighting to believe
It's like I'm living from a distance
When you're out of reach
I wanna feel it when I mean it when I say it can you hear me at all
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
Remember when you found me drowning
You put me from the deepest end
I promised that I'll never leave you
Now I'm drowning again
It's killing me with every breath
Witnessing the life I lived
Only you know who I am
I'm reaching out my hand
I wanna feel it when I mean it when I say it can you hear me at all
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away
Yeah, yeah
And I don't wanna waste time
Living a half life
Are you listening
Now give it back to me
I remember everything
The way it used to be
Ye give it back to me
Ye give it back to me
I hear your voice
But inside I'm lost
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
Oh, I'm so far away
I'm so far away, yeah
I couldn't be more close
Pretending that I'm in this moment
When I'm only a ghost
I listen to the words you're saying
Words I'm fighting to believe
It's like I'm living from a distance
When you're out of reach
I wanna feel it when I mean it when I say it can you hear me at all
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
Remember when you found me drowning
You put me from the deepest end
I promised that I'll never leave you
Now I'm drowning again
It's killing me with every breath
Witnessing the life I lived
Only you know who I am
I'm reaching out my hand
I wanna feel it when I mean it when I say it can you hear me at all
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away, I'm so far away
Yeah, yeah
And I don't wanna waste time
Living a half life
Are you listening
Now give it back to me
I remember everything
The way it used to be
Ye give it back to me
Ye give it back to me
I hear your voice
But inside I'm lost
And I feel so far away, far away from everything
Outside wondering when I got lost
I threw my arms up in the air, why do I disappear
How can your love be so close
When I'm so far away
Oh, I'm so far away
I'm so far away, yeah
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20, edited by ryman94
So Far Away Lyrics as written by Jasen Rauch Anthony Armstrong
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Bluewater Music Corp.
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