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"
We used to think we only had to try
And gamble on the art of getting by
Oh, turn it into a different way
Where the day takes a guarantee from the night
Making up's not the same as making it right
We listen for a voice that never comes
And separate before the snow's begun
Oh, second guessing the other side
And I do, and I do believe in the right
To make now all we ever have in our sight
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
So leave the generations with the key
So shake the revelations 'til they're free
Oh, over-riding the second side
'Cos I know, 'cos I know the reasons below
Carry on, carry on the feeling will go
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Ah, is it coming in the morning?
Ah, is it coming after all?
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
And gamble on the art of getting by
Oh, turn it into a different way
Where the day takes a guarantee from the night
Making up's not the same as making it right
We listen for a voice that never comes
And separate before the snow's begun
Oh, second guessing the other side
And I do, and I do believe in the right
To make now all we ever have in our sight
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
So leave the generations with the key
So shake the revelations 'til they're free
Oh, over-riding the second side
'Cos I know, 'cos I know the reasons below
Carry on, carry on the feeling will go
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Hiding us from the past. Diving into the future
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Ah, is it coming in the morning?
Ah, is it coming after all?
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Taking the the only way we know
Taking the only thing that matters
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
The Art of Getting By (Song for Heaven's Gate) song meanings
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