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"
I want to reach out and touch the sky
I want to touch the sun but I don't need to fly
I'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
And find the dish that ran away from the spoon
I've crossed the ocean, turned every bend
I found the crossing near a golden rainbow's end
I've been through magic and through life's reality
I've lived a thousand years and it never bothered me
Got no religion, don't need no friends
Got all I want and I don't need to pretend
Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind
I've seen the future and I've left it behind
I want to touch the sun but I don't need to fly
I'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
And find the dish that ran away from the spoon
I've crossed the ocean, turned every bend
I found the crossing near a golden rainbow's end
I've been through magic and through life's reality
I've lived a thousand years and it never bothered me
Got no religion, don't need no friends
Got all I want and I don't need to pretend
Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind
I've seen the future and I've left it behind
Lyrics submitted by carlos_avdas, edited by Boulvejak, Counterclockwerk
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Oh and radiofreesrini, your cover sux.
sheeeeessshhhh........well its obviously about a guy looking for a leprachaun. DUH!! c'mon now....
ozzy wrote very few Sabbath lyrics...its nearly all Geezer Butler....Vol $ is basically all about cocaine...as is given away by the dedication on the back of the album
Love this tune so much, it's my text message tone on my cell phone. Just about 2 or 3 seconds of the beginning drum sound.
I think this song is about living life to the fullest.
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I agree with sentry in a way the lyrics are not always the only meaning in a song, often the instraments say alot more but if I only look at the lyrics I would say that its about a man that has all he wants in life and just wants to be left alone to expierience life on his own.
This song is ridiculous. From the lyrics to the amazing riff. The riff says to me, "I don't give a fvck, leave me alone!" The last two lines, or the entire song!, are unbelievable.
"Don't try to reach me 'cos I'll tear up your mind I've seen the future and I've left it behind"
one of my top 20 sabbath songs of all time! (that sounds like nothing but... realize there are about 60 good sabbath songs)