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"
Two cancers crossing paths but where will they go
If you have another moment I'd sure like to know
Lift me up when I'm blurred and I dig your look
I'm still not sure why I read you like my favorite book
It's friction
Your no Cleopatra but you blossomed so lovely
Your beauty of Venus and love of Aphrodite
Arizona girl with plenty of possession
You got the whole world for an honorable mention
And it's you and me while we keep turning
For you I left it behind, now California's burning
With you no such thing as a silent sigh
I am complete with the stars in your eyes
And I'll be here on the day your returning
Two cancers going somewhere but it's out of reach
To me your like a wave crashing onto the beach
No thoughts of looking back into the rear view
Telling me about your life then I came crashing into you
It's friction
"Ask you" says a voice inside
There's no point in just staring you down
Don't want to set you aside
Because soon your leaving town
I ask how do you make it all happen
Like Joan Of Arc always searching for something
You'll be the queen and I'll be the king
And it's you and me while we keep turning
For you I left it behind, now California's burning
With you no such thing as a silent sigh
I am complete with the stars in your eyes
And I'll be here on the day your returning
And it's you and me while we keep turning
Every day with you I am learning
Two cancers from different sides, this is our lives
With you I'm sailing down the stream
Do you see me in your dreams?
Am I in your dreams? [x3]
Do you see me in your dreams?
Maybe sometimes
If you have another moment I'd sure like to know
Lift me up when I'm blurred and I dig your look
I'm still not sure why I read you like my favorite book
It's friction
Your no Cleopatra but you blossomed so lovely
Your beauty of Venus and love of Aphrodite
Arizona girl with plenty of possession
You got the whole world for an honorable mention
And it's you and me while we keep turning
For you I left it behind, now California's burning
With you no such thing as a silent sigh
I am complete with the stars in your eyes
And I'll be here on the day your returning
Two cancers going somewhere but it's out of reach
To me your like a wave crashing onto the beach
No thoughts of looking back into the rear view
Telling me about your life then I came crashing into you
It's friction
"Ask you" says a voice inside
There's no point in just staring you down
Don't want to set you aside
Because soon your leaving town
I ask how do you make it all happen
Like Joan Of Arc always searching for something
You'll be the queen and I'll be the king
And it's you and me while we keep turning
For you I left it behind, now California's burning
With you no such thing as a silent sigh
I am complete with the stars in your eyes
And I'll be here on the day your returning
And it's you and me while we keep turning
Every day with you I am learning
Two cancers from different sides, this is our lives
With you I'm sailing down the stream
Do you see me in your dreams?
Am I in your dreams? [x3]
Do you see me in your dreams?
Maybe sometimes
Lyrics submitted by mysterioso
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