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"
Understood everything
That was good, go again,
Slip away, slip away, slip away, slip away
It's quiet now, slowing down
All the noise and all the songs
And I wait, yeah I wait, yeah I wait, yeah I wait
Not backing out, I'm going in
Another prayer, another drink
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay
It's funny how people wanna look away
But hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this door
Heaven is not some waiting game
Don't have to die to get there
Hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this, knocking on this door
Not ashamed to have some fun
So you can say what you want
No, don't be scared to tell me how this makes you feel
But I'll tell you this, it's a risk, taste the freedom
Though I'm a child, and I got fears
I want a piece, give me some, I don't care what it costs
It's funny how people wanna look away
But hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this door
Heaven is not some waiting game
Don't have to die to get there
Hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep breaking out,
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Let down your hair, so I can climb up to Heaven
Where the walls are stars, and the floor is blue
Jasmine silk, the colour of honey
And I'll spend my time dreaming with you
All of my loved ones will join me soon
In a land full of angels, beautiful as you
And my fingers will pour, oh colours and paint
They are rainbows that shine on through the rain
And every day, I'll dream of flying away
To this land full of music with you by my side
Let down your hair, so I can climb up to Heaven
Where the walls are stars, and the floor is blue
That was good, go again,
Slip away, slip away, slip away, slip away
It's quiet now, slowing down
All the noise and all the songs
And I wait, yeah I wait, yeah I wait, yeah I wait
Not backing out, I'm going in
Another prayer, another drink
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay
It's funny how people wanna look away
But hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this door
Heaven is not some waiting game
Don't have to die to get there
Hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this, knocking on this door
Not ashamed to have some fun
So you can say what you want
No, don't be scared to tell me how this makes you feel
But I'll tell you this, it's a risk, taste the freedom
Though I'm a child, and I got fears
I want a piece, give me some, I don't care what it costs
It's funny how people wanna look away
But hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep knocking on this door
Heaven is not some waiting game
Don't have to die to get there
Hey, Heaven is always wanting more
I'ma keep breaking out,
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Getting out to get in
Let down your hair, so I can climb up to Heaven
Where the walls are stars, and the floor is blue
Jasmine silk, the colour of honey
And I'll spend my time dreaming with you
All of my loved ones will join me soon
In a land full of angels, beautiful as you
And my fingers will pour, oh colours and paint
They are rainbows that shine on through the rain
And every day, I'll dream of flying away
To this land full of music with you by my side
Let down your hair, so I can climb up to Heaven
Where the walls are stars, and the floor is blue
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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