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"
Many years before I kept track of the years I felt I would
Look back otherwise why did I write down everything that entered my mind
Check out these lines like I'm staring and I'm soon ticking when it is closed
In twenty holes, how could I say at what point I will gain perspective later on
No, I had to survive it by the soundtrack made of our short lives
Making sense of hologram ecology
I'll be up crying, nursing into grace and
Hiding in the pages adding up to me
Eternity
'Til I live
It's like a topography that is made from cartography of me
All those feelings everyday the bus stop pulls to size up the entire world
And while I broke your tubes and carving at me all the times I had done you wrong
I hope I'm sorry
Certain times in our lives come to take up more space than others
And time's gonna take it
Time that Kenny said I broke in over the summer
It was the evening when he climbed that tree
I was afraid what he was doing inside so I
Followed him to stop a robbery
All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
He will know what's real or numbness
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside
All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
They won't know us by our number
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside (outside)
There was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat
There was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat
We watch them training while we all eat
Look back otherwise why did I write down everything that entered my mind
Check out these lines like I'm staring and I'm soon ticking when it is closed
In twenty holes, how could I say at what point I will gain perspective later on
No, I had to survive it by the soundtrack made of our short lives
Making sense of hologram ecology
I'll be up crying, nursing into grace and
Hiding in the pages adding up to me
Eternity
'Til I live
It's like a topography that is made from cartography of me
All those feelings everyday the bus stop pulls to size up the entire world
And while I broke your tubes and carving at me all the times I had done you wrong
I hope I'm sorry
Certain times in our lives come to take up more space than others
And time's gonna take it
Time that Kenny said I broke in over the summer
It was the evening when he climbed that tree
I was afraid what he was doing inside so I
Followed him to stop a robbery
All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
He will know what's real or numbness
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside
All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
They won't know us by our number
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside (outside)
There was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat
There was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat
We watch them training while we all eat
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Hug Of Thunder Lyrics as written by Brendan Canning Andrew Whiteman
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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