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"
A flock of birds hovering above
Just a flock of birds,
That's how you think of love
And I always look up to the sky
Pray before the dawn
'Cause they fly away
Sometimes they arrive
Sometimes they are gone
They fly on
A flock of birds hovering above
Into smoke, I'm turned and rise
Following them up
Still I always look up to the sky
Pray before the dawn
'Cause they fly away
One minute they arrive
Next, you know they're gone
They fly on
Fly on, oh
So fly on
Ride through
Maybe one day, I'll fly next to you
Fly on
Ride through
Maybe one day, I can fly with you
Fly on
Fly on
Fly on
(Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...)
Just a flock of birds,
That's how you think of love
And I always look up to the sky
Pray before the dawn
'Cause they fly away
Sometimes they arrive
Sometimes they are gone
They fly on
A flock of birds hovering above
Into smoke, I'm turned and rise
Following them up
Still I always look up to the sky
Pray before the dawn
'Cause they fly away
One minute they arrive
Next, you know they're gone
They fly on
Fly on, oh
So fly on
Ride through
Maybe one day, I'll fly next to you
Fly on
Ride through
Maybe one day, I can fly with you
Fly on
Fly on
Fly on
(Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...
Don't ever let go...)
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96, edited by hylianhero33
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A couple of weeks ago I met an incredible guy, a writer. In the beginning it was a crash only but after one day spent together I have totally lost my head over him and my heart too. But rationally I wasn't ready yet. There's still a lot of hurt left to heal.. I should have worked on my problems in the very first place but I didn't... and I told him an orrible thing so he is gone.
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When a relation is over is sad, but it is much sadder a relation which ends even before it has started. Please dear friends who eventualy read these idiot lines written by the queen of idiots. When someone cheats on you and betrays your trust, work hard on yourselves to deal with the pain since the very first place.
Do not hide it in the inner part of your self. Not every one is a liar ready to treat you badly. Trust is needed, always needed. Never say to anyone - "I don't trust you" without a real reason. It is such a horrible thing to listen to. If you want the new coming into your life, ged rid of the old one firstly. I hope to have a second chance. I don't know what I hope. I just feel stupid and childish for having written that. This song has now another meaning too...anyway it is beautiful. Coldplay is my favourite band.
@Midori76 ... Sorry for the spelling mistakes... : ( I am typing from my old computer and the keyboard has some broken keys. Apparently I do not have the possibility to edit the post from here