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"
In the beginning of time
Before the mountains were made
Before the sky split haShem sit's
In peace and harmony
Creates the space for a new baby
We stay empty in the vision of a king
For his dream to manifest in we
Princes and priests will become
Run and emerge as the surge flows like rain
To see it, to see the day to come
When the king will look into his kingdom
Into my being, and see his self happy
Believe in me- I believe in we
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get back on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
To get back to you, get back to you
There was an ocean and there was a boat
It ran into the waves and
The rocks and it broke from the debris
Was made the ocean and sky
Over the sea lies the ancient smile
So the great eagle smiles
You, you, me, we are the same
You, who remembers all the while
All the way back before the cord was cut
Before the leaves before the trees
Before the seas and the black ocean breeze
Before the great storm
Wandering in this world
Waiting for a day to be born
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get back on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
Get back to you, get back to you
And you try to fill yourself
Up with all this stuff
To fill the hole I'm trying to FEEL the hole
No reason to talk if you
Ain't got what to say
And besides, everything is okay
You know that place where you'd run away?
Well it's time to stay time to be hungry
Before the beginning before this song
Before right and wrong before Adam and Eve
Above space and time above reason and rhyme
Above circles and lines
Before the clock start tickin'
We were lost at sea (in the boat)
Waves crash around me (fire and stone)
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get home on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
Get back to you, Get back now
And get it back go on and get it back
Before the mountains were made
Before the sky split haShem sit's
In peace and harmony
Creates the space for a new baby
We stay empty in the vision of a king
For his dream to manifest in we
Princes and priests will become
Run and emerge as the surge flows like rain
To see it, to see the day to come
When the king will look into his kingdom
Into my being, and see his self happy
Believe in me- I believe in we
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get back on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
To get back to you, get back to you
There was an ocean and there was a boat
It ran into the waves and
The rocks and it broke from the debris
Was made the ocean and sky
Over the sea lies the ancient smile
So the great eagle smiles
You, you, me, we are the same
You, who remembers all the while
All the way back before the cord was cut
Before the leaves before the trees
Before the seas and the black ocean breeze
Before the great storm
Wandering in this world
Waiting for a day to be born
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get back on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
Get back to you, get back to you
And you try to fill yourself
Up with all this stuff
To fill the hole I'm trying to FEEL the hole
No reason to talk if you
Ain't got what to say
And besides, everything is okay
You know that place where you'd run away?
Well it's time to stay time to be hungry
Before the beginning before this song
Before right and wrong before Adam and Eve
Above space and time above reason and rhyme
Above circles and lines
Before the clock start tickin'
We were lost at sea (in the boat)
Waves crash around me (fire and stone)
This is the story of the seven beggars
Trying to get home on an eagle's feathers
Looking for a place to be born
Amongst the sons and daughters
Get back to you, Get back now
And get it back go on and get it back
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
7 Beggars Lyrics as written by David Martin Kahne Aaron Sean Dugan
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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