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"
The way it feels to fly
The way it feels to fly
Runway, runway, runway
They'll come a day when we
Won’t have to fight
Won't be about who was wrong who was right
Like fireflies emanating the light
Just you and I universally tied
There's truth for those if they want to hear
Somewhere out in the atmosphere
To survive gotta persevere
Cause to fly gotta have no fear
First they love you, like ooo it’s just you
And then they bait you and try to change you
You can push through it
Stay the same you and
Never let 'em bring you down
Remember there's only one you
And there's a God up above you
You can soar above the hurt
When it taunts you
Float like a hummingbird if you want to
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race, let love be your runway
There's a band of color that reflects
The love you have inside
And you will discover there is
Solace though you’re terrified
And I promise there is truth for
Those who really want to hear
If you wanna touch the sky and fly
You’ve got to have no fear
First they love you and then they judge you
And try and chain you and then they drain you
You can push through it stay the same you and
Never let 'em bring you down
Remember there’s only one you
And here's a God up above you (True)
You can soar above the hurt
When it taunts you
Float like a hummingbird if you want to
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you’re fighting (Baby I'm your runway)
Win the race, let love be your runway
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place (higher place)
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
(Feeling when you're rising)
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race, let love be your runway
The way it feels to fly
The way it feels to fly
Runway, runway, runway
They'll come a day when we
Won’t have to fight
Won't be about who was wrong who was right
Like fireflies emanating the light
Just you and I universally tied
There's truth for those if they want to hear
Somewhere out in the atmosphere
To survive gotta persevere
Cause to fly gotta have no fear
First they love you, like ooo it’s just you
And then they bait you and try to change you
You can push through it
Stay the same you and
Never let 'em bring you down
Remember there's only one you
And there's a God up above you
You can soar above the hurt
When it taunts you
Float like a hummingbird if you want to
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race, let love be your runway
There's a band of color that reflects
The love you have inside
And you will discover there is
Solace though you’re terrified
And I promise there is truth for
Those who really want to hear
If you wanna touch the sky and fly
You’ve got to have no fear
First they love you and then they judge you
And try and chain you and then they drain you
You can push through it stay the same you and
Never let 'em bring you down
Remember there’s only one you
And here's a God up above you (True)
You can soar above the hurt
When it taunts you
Float like a hummingbird if you want to
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you’re fighting (Baby I'm your runway)
Win the race, let love be your runway
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Runway, runway (Let love be your runway)
Let love be your runway
There is a higher place (higher place)
Just embrace that feeling when you're rising
(Feeling when you're rising)
And your face is kissing the horizon
And if they count you out
Let go and watch you drown
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race keep kissing the horizon
Runway runway
Just shake off those demons
That you're fighting
Win the race, let love be your runway
The way it feels to fly
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Runway Lyrics as written by Peder Losnegard Mariah Carey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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