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 would always see the signs
The echoes in my head they rhyme
I feel we never went at all
Tomorrow is another day
I don't know when I'll feel anymore
Feeling all these things before
And all that I would do
You, you would always see the signs
The echoes in my head they rhyme
I felt they never went home at all
Tomorrow is another day, that we need
I don't know where I'll be searching for, the things I've seen
And I'm feeling all these things before, I go through
All that I would do, I do for you, oh
Round about, a quarter past
We rustle up all inside
Of everyone, and everything
That didn't owe us too well
And in our hearts
The matter is, they know the reason too well
I heard the rain, it never came
When we, oh oh oh
And I'd better get in control
Of this heavy vehicle
Or else I'll go and then I'll go and explode
To the place that I adore
Seen places on the shore
Where you've been and where no sun is a sin
Been packing all night long
To get ready for some fun
And you go, and you go evermore
I hate feeling in control
I want someone else's role
But I'm here and I'll do anything
Together this is a heart attack
Im gonna get off in a sec
But for now, I'm having way too much fun
To the place that I adore
Seen places on the shore
Where did you go?
And where did you go everyone?
Been packing all night long
To get ready for some fun
And you go, and you go evermore
I hate feeling in control
I want someone else's role
But I'm here and I'll do anything
The echoes in my head they rhyme
I feel we never went at all
Tomorrow is another day
I don't know when I'll feel anymore
Feeling all these things before
And all that I would do
You, you would always see the signs
The echoes in my head they rhyme
I felt they never went home at all
Tomorrow is another day, that we need
I don't know where I'll be searching for, the things I've seen
And I'm feeling all these things before, I go through
All that I would do, I do for you, oh
Round about, a quarter past
We rustle up all inside
Of everyone, and everything
That didn't owe us too well
And in our hearts
The matter is, they know the reason too well
I heard the rain, it never came
When we, oh oh oh
And I'd better get in control
Of this heavy vehicle
Or else I'll go and then I'll go and explode
To the place that I adore
Seen places on the shore
Where you've been and where no sun is a sin
Been packing all night long
To get ready for some fun
And you go, and you go evermore
I hate feeling in control
I want someone else's role
But I'm here and I'll do anything
Together this is a heart attack
Im gonna get off in a sec
But for now, I'm having way too much fun
To the place that I adore
Seen places on the shore
Where did you go?
And where did you go everyone?
Been packing all night long
To get ready for some fun
And you go, and you go evermore
I hate feeling in control
I want someone else's role
But I'm here and I'll do anything
Lyrics submitted by cutewhensedated, edited by jkundew
Shell Suite Lyrics as written by Hugo Garnet David Manuel
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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It sounds like he loves her, and she knows. But he doesn't do anything about it. It just sounds nastalgic, like he's looking back on what could have happened or the opportunities that he never did anything about it.
I think he's meeting with the one he loves and he just can't gather his thoughts and is feeling dumb and so good that it's nostalgic.