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"
I took clippings from a life I couldn't propagate
Plant them round the posts of the garden gate
Water, water everywhere and still our roots would shrink
Water water everywhere but not a drop of wine to drink
Took a look around and it was fairly grim
They used to make me promise I would pray for them
So I told them with a wink that I'd be back someday
The smile behind the lie - a dead giveaway
We trained the vine
May our hearts be overgrown
We trained the vine
In the grove we are alone
Pinned to the ground now
Underneath the sound now
Who holds you down
When there's no one else around
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
Calm before the sun slips away
Before the night shadows day
You bring us wine with the rain
You bring us wine with the rain
Your roots are bound now
Can't recall the sound now
How are we to drown
In a juice so unprofound
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
Forever yours forever mine
Calm before the sun slips away
Before the night shadows day
You bring us wine with the rain
You bring us wine with the rain
I trained the vine to bind
You bring us wine with the rain
I trained the mind divine
You bring us wine with the rain
Traveled the mountains
Sailed every sea
Wandered the desert
Swam gutters in the city
I've stood in drought, I've stood through storm
With only memories of you to keep warm
I've braved the fire, withstood the frost
I am within but forever I am lost
A tale this old is sold for gold
Woven through gates in the garden
The more it's told, more overgrown
Woven through gates in the garden
I used to pray for myself
Now I only pray for you
A tale this old is sold for gold
Woven through gates in the garden
I took clippings from a vine I'd never seen before
Then realized I was laying on the garden floor
The sound is overwhelming so I beg your pardon
We've always been woven through gates in the garden
Plant them round the posts of the garden gate
Water, water everywhere and still our roots would shrink
Water water everywhere but not a drop of wine to drink
Took a look around and it was fairly grim
They used to make me promise I would pray for them
So I told them with a wink that I'd be back someday
The smile behind the lie - a dead giveaway
We trained the vine
May our hearts be overgrown
We trained the vine
In the grove we are alone
Pinned to the ground now
Underneath the sound now
Who holds you down
When there's no one else around
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
Calm before the sun slips away
Before the night shadows day
You bring us wine with the rain
You bring us wine with the rain
Your roots are bound now
Can't recall the sound now
How are we to drown
In a juice so unprofound
We trained the vine
We are ever intertwined
Forever yours forever mine
Calm before the sun slips away
Before the night shadows day
You bring us wine with the rain
You bring us wine with the rain
I trained the vine to bind
You bring us wine with the rain
I trained the mind divine
You bring us wine with the rain
Traveled the mountains
Sailed every sea
Wandered the desert
Swam gutters in the city
I've stood in drought, I've stood through storm
With only memories of you to keep warm
I've braved the fire, withstood the frost
I am within but forever I am lost
A tale this old is sold for gold
Woven through gates in the garden
The more it's told, more overgrown
Woven through gates in the garden
I used to pray for myself
Now I only pray for you
A tale this old is sold for gold
Woven through gates in the garden
I took clippings from a vine I'd never seen before
Then realized I was laying on the garden floor
The sound is overwhelming so I beg your pardon
We've always been woven through gates in the garden
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