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"
Have you ever dreamt before?
Been somewhere you never went before?
Stretch out palms out to the ceiling
Lonely in my soul and there you reach in
Peeling back the feelings, five a.m. and nowhere
I feel so at home here, I can't take my eyes off you [?]
Play me all your favourite songs
Nights turn into lies turn into lines out on the road, yeah
Is no one else awake?
No one else around?
I can't see the ground
I'm flying in love, spiralling on
Caught on your current now, too high to be stopped
Kites in the wind, tied to your skin
If I lose you tonight, I'll never find you again
Like kites in the wind
Oh we're just kids in love now
Playing with this fire 'til it burns out
Fingers smell of can of blues, [?]
Blowing in my face, who cares how this turns out?
Cider helps the words, I'll take it out the package
You take all of my love until your suitcase [?] back again
Petrol station stops, red hot peppers in the [?]
Playing with scar tissue that I really wish you saw and
Is no one else awake?
No one else around?
I can't see the ground
I'm flying in love, spiralling on
Caught on your current now, too high to be stopped
Kites in the wind, tied to your skin
If I lose you tonight, I'll never find you again
Oh, oh
You and I, you and I
Oh, oh
Like kites in the wind, oh
Like kites in the wind
Spiralling and twisting
Eye spy in the distance
You and I, you and I
Like kites in the wind
Been somewhere you never went before?
Stretch out palms out to the ceiling
Lonely in my soul and there you reach in
Peeling back the feelings, five a.m. and nowhere
I feel so at home here, I can't take my eyes off you [?]
Play me all your favourite songs
Nights turn into lies turn into lines out on the road, yeah
Is no one else awake?
No one else around?
I can't see the ground
I'm flying in love, spiralling on
Caught on your current now, too high to be stopped
Kites in the wind, tied to your skin
If I lose you tonight, I'll never find you again
Like kites in the wind
Oh we're just kids in love now
Playing with this fire 'til it burns out
Fingers smell of can of blues, [?]
Blowing in my face, who cares how this turns out?
Cider helps the words, I'll take it out the package
You take all of my love until your suitcase [?] back again
Petrol station stops, red hot peppers in the [?]
Playing with scar tissue that I really wish you saw and
Is no one else awake?
No one else around?
I can't see the ground
I'm flying in love, spiralling on
Caught on your current now, too high to be stopped
Kites in the wind, tied to your skin
If I lose you tonight, I'll never find you again
Oh, oh
You and I, you and I
Oh, oh
Like kites in the wind, oh
Like kites in the wind
Spiralling and twisting
Eye spy in the distance
You and I, you and I
Like kites in the wind
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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