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"
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
Picture yourself standing by a lake
Peaceful on a perfect summer day
Memories are flashing through your mind
You bring yourself back to that place and time
When there was no mountain you could not climb
Open fields and free to wander
Brand new days no rain nor thunder
Time did not mean anything
You look down and see your reflection upon the water
The lines upon your face don't show today
You long to be that young man you were yesterday
But you're at peace with who you are and here you'll stay
It's something that this world can't take away
The winding road sometimes confuses
The fact that we can win by losing
No reward in worldly gain
Daylight slowly turns into the night
And you don't know who you are, you've lost sight
And it's dangerous getting lost inside a world that's not your home
Remember that one day by the lake
when the Spirit made you sure of who you are
So hold on to that feeling once again, once again
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
Those who seek with eyes wide open
and have a heart to heal the broken
There will be answers
There will be answers
Those who've heard and have the calling
to save another life from falling
There will be answers
There will be answers
Those of us who've turned our back on
the gift of one who gave His own Son
There will be answers
We will see the answers alive
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Some believe the blind can be made to see
with the power of a bended knee
There will be answers
There will be answers
Some live for the here and now
They ignore that there could be a way out
There will be answers
We will see the answers alive
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Does it make you wonder why He gave it all?
He had every reason not to catch us from the fall
Now we never have to wander
Bow down, we'll see You real soon
So, bow down, we'll see You real soon
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Does it make you wonder why He gave it all?
He had every reason not to catch us from the fall
Now we never have to wander
Bow down, we'll see You real soon
So, bow down, we'll see You real soon
And if I fall away
If I fall away
Take me down to the living water
Take me down to the living water
Oh, should I fall away
Take me down to the living water
Take me down to the living water
Ooh, take me down
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
Picture yourself standing by a lake
Peaceful on a perfect summer day
Memories are flashing through your mind
You bring yourself back to that place and time
When there was no mountain you could not climb
Open fields and free to wander
Brand new days no rain nor thunder
Time did not mean anything
You look down and see your reflection upon the water
The lines upon your face don't show today
You long to be that young man you were yesterday
But you're at peace with who you are and here you'll stay
It's something that this world can't take away
The winding road sometimes confuses
The fact that we can win by losing
No reward in worldly gain
Daylight slowly turns into the night
And you don't know who you are, you've lost sight
And it's dangerous getting lost inside a world that's not your home
Remember that one day by the lake
when the Spirit made you sure of who you are
So hold on to that feeling once again, once again
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
One day down by, down by the lake
Those who seek with eyes wide open
and have a heart to heal the broken
There will be answers
There will be answers
Those who've heard and have the calling
to save another life from falling
There will be answers
There will be answers
Those of us who've turned our back on
the gift of one who gave His own Son
There will be answers
We will see the answers alive
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Some believe the blind can be made to see
with the power of a bended knee
There will be answers
There will be answers
Some live for the here and now
They ignore that there could be a way out
There will be answers
We will see the answers alive
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Does it make you wonder why He gave it all?
He had every reason not to catch us from the fall
Now we never have to wander
Bow down, we'll see You real soon
So, bow down, we'll see You real soon
We'll bow down
Every tongue will confess that He is Lord
And all of us
will have to account for what we've done
Does it make you wonder why He gave it all?
He had every reason not to catch us from the fall
Now we never have to wander
Bow down, we'll see You real soon
So, bow down, we'll see You real soon
And if I fall away
If I fall away
Take me down to the living water
Take me down to the living water
Oh, should I fall away
Take me down to the living water
Take me down to the living water
Ooh, take me down
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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