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"
[Chorus]
Say bye-bye, kneel down
Yield, pray and kiss the ground
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Ain't no turning back like a train
Sprouting wings, fuck the track
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Oh my, oh well
Guess I'd better just enjoy the ride
[Verse]
My oh my, grinning and chatty
Tapestries and tile
I'll, I'll try to keep this conversation light
May be up all night
And I surmise there might have been Iowaska
Hiding in the water and wine, water and wine
Looks like I'm about to
Take a bullet train to Iowaska soon
Well, alright, ride, ride
Choo, choo, choo
Choo, choo, choo
Animistical wayside sabbatical
[Chorus]
I say bye-bye
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Ain't no turning back like a train
Sprouting wings, fuck the track
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Oh my, oh arrogant side
Or better, just enjoy the ride
[Outro]
Ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride
Say bye-bye, kneel down
Yield, pray and kiss the ground
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Ain't no turning back like a train
Sprouting wings, fuck the track
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Oh my, oh well
Guess I'd better just enjoy the ride
[Verse]
My oh my, grinning and chatty
Tapestries and tile
I'll, I'll try to keep this conversation light
May be up all night
And I surmise there might have been Iowaska
Hiding in the water and wine, water and wine
Looks like I'm about to
Take a bullet train to Iowaska soon
Well, alright, ride, ride
Choo, choo, choo
Choo, choo, choo
Animistical wayside sabbatical
[Chorus]
I say bye-bye
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Gonna be a while before we touch back down
Ain't no turning back like a train
Sprouting wings, fuck the track
Hello sky, I'm all aboard this surprise locomotion
Oh my, oh arrogant side
Or better, just enjoy the ride
[Outro]
Ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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