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"
Goodnight, to every little hour that you
Sleep tight, may it hold you through the winter of a
Long night, and keep you from the loneliness of yourself
Heart strung, is your heart frayed and empty cause it's
Hard luck, when no one understands your love it's
Unsung, and I say
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always, to all that's pure that's in your heart
Goodnight, may your dreams be so happy and your
Head light, with the wishes of a sandman and a
Night light, be careful not to let the bedbugs
Sleep tight, nestled in your covers
The sun shines but I don't
A silver rain will wash away
The sun shines but I don't
A silver rain will wash away
And you can tell, it's just as well
And you can tell, it's just as well
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always to all that's pure that's in your heart
Sleep tight, may it hold you through the winter of a
Long night, and keep you from the loneliness of yourself
Heart strung, is your heart frayed and empty cause it's
Hard luck, when no one understands your love it's
Unsung, and I say
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always, to all that's pure that's in your heart
Goodnight, may your dreams be so happy and your
Head light, with the wishes of a sandman and a
Night light, be careful not to let the bedbugs
Sleep tight, nestled in your covers
The sun shines but I don't
A silver rain will wash away
The sun shines but I don't
A silver rain will wash away
And you can tell, it's just as well
And you can tell, it's just as well
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always to all that's pure that's in your heart
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Mellow_Harsher, AngelSwordAF
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This song is about suicide. it refers to ending the pain of loneliness by committing suicide. The pain of his loneliness is evident when he refers to his heart being "frayed and empty" because "no one understands your love". He further describes his empty, lonely feelings by saying "the sun shines but I don't." He then says "a silver rain will wash away" which is him describing his solution to end the pain. The "silver rain" refers to a hail of bullets. By shooting himself he will end the pain. The verses that say "Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day" are his way of saying goodbye to the one that he dreamed of being in love with. He's saying goodbye to all the hours they could have spent together that they won't now since he will be dead. When he says goodnight to "all that's pure that's in your heart" he's referring to his dream of a pure, innocent love that is now gone, destroyed by the cruel reality of loneliness and unfulfilled love. The other verses that say things such as "sleep tight" and "may your dreams be so happy" refer to his hope and belief that in death he will find the peace he has not found in life. The "sleep" he mentions is referring to death. When he says "may it hold you through the winter of a long night, and keep you from the loneliness of yourself" he's saying he hopes that death will end the pain of loneliness he's felt. This song is very very sad. It uses a beautiful lullaby like sound to evoke thoughts of innocence....his dream of a pure, innocent love. The sound and even the lyrics on the surface seem innocent but they are deceiving because beneath them you see his anguish and pain at being lonely and unloved which he intends to end by washing them away with a "silver rain" of bullets.
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I kinda always thought this song was about killing yerself..about leaving someone alone..about wanting them to be okay after yer gone...
I agree with Westsideduck. I can see that in this song. Not neccessarily killing yourself (but that also works), but maybe wanting someone else to be happy more than yourself, like loving someone so much that their happiness is all that matters.
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