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"
Into the arms of the sea
Where my tired head carried me
I walked out into the breeze
To be quiet with the storms inside
I prayed
But that's never worked
Why would it now?
Lifted my arms out and tenderly whispered
“I've lost my way somehow”
Take, take these eyes
And all I was and my disguise
And lay them out, on the beach
'Cause I won't need them now them
To see inside
Take, take this voice
And all it's songs from my insides
And spread them out over the waves
over the sea, above the cliffs
In melody
So come home,
come on home
It's over now
This walkabout
It's been so long
It's been so long
Come home please
Into the arms of the sea
Where my tired head carried me
I walked out into the waves
To be quiet with the storms inside
Where my tired head carried me
I walked out into the breeze
To be quiet with the storms inside
I prayed
But that's never worked
Why would it now?
Lifted my arms out and tenderly whispered
“I've lost my way somehow”
Take, take these eyes
And all I was and my disguise
And lay them out, on the beach
'Cause I won't need them now them
To see inside
Take, take this voice
And all it's songs from my insides
And spread them out over the waves
over the sea, above the cliffs
In melody
So come home,
come on home
It's over now
This walkabout
It's been so long
It's been so long
Come home please
Into the arms of the sea
Where my tired head carried me
I walked out into the waves
To be quiet with the storms inside
Lyrics submitted by colmar, edited by Raalala, tracytracy2017
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