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"
Weather worn, jagged heart and ragged soul
Wind swept spirit soaring high in the raging gale
Tired and torn, treacherous tides across the shoul
Rushing stream, your lifeblood, winds through this wintervale
In the darkness lingers the afterglow
An alleviating light
Caught a glimpse of fire on the distant shore
In the night
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Ages passed, this receding rainbow goal
Any quest or journey seeking it foaled to fail
It's so far away and so long ago
Lives lay buried that shone bright
Now the shore is burning into the sky
In the night
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Long ages passed though no one came
Good visions last through hunger and pain
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Wind swept spirit soaring high in the raging gale
Tired and torn, treacherous tides across the shoul
Rushing stream, your lifeblood, winds through this wintervale
In the darkness lingers the afterglow
An alleviating light
Caught a glimpse of fire on the distant shore
In the night
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Ages passed, this receding rainbow goal
Any quest or journey seeking it foaled to fail
It's so far away and so long ago
Lives lay buried that shone bright
Now the shore is burning into the sky
In the night
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Long ages passed though no one came
Good visions last through hunger and pain
Is there land beyond my dreams
Underneath a starlit sky
This one cannot, so it seems
Righteousness restore
Sail into the west
Until landfall gratify
Lay me down to rest
On the sunset shore
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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