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"
A man in my shoes runs a lier, and all the papers lie tonight
that falling over you is the news of the day.
The angels fall like rain,
and your love is all of heaven away
Inside you time moves and she don't fade,
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
The race is on I'm on your side, but hearing you my engines die,
I'm in the mood for you, for running away
Oh the stars come down in you
And love, love, love, can't give it away
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade away
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
So don't you go, cause it makes no sense
and all these talking supermen
just take away the time, just to get it away
Ain't it just like the rain
Cause love, love, love, love, is only heaven away
Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade away
Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade away.
The man in my shoes runs a lier, and all the papers lie tonight
That falling over you is the news of the day.
And love, will not fade
And love, love, love, will not fade away.
that falling over you is the news of the day.
The angels fall like rain,
and your love is all of heaven away
Inside you time moves and she don't fade,
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
The race is on I'm on your side, but hearing you my engines die,
I'm in the mood for you, for running away
Oh the stars come down in you
And love, love, love, can't give it away
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade away
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
So don't you go, cause it makes no sense
and all these talking supermen
just take away the time, just to get it away
Ain't it just like the rain
Cause love, love, love, love, is only heaven away
Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade away
Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade away.
The man in my shoes runs a lier, and all the papers lie tonight
That falling over you is the news of the day.
And love, will not fade
And love, love, love, will not fade away.
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I love "furrealgirl"'s interpretation too (this song is listed twice on this site), but it seems from my recent experience, this song means this...
A man in my shoes runs a light = Guy discovered there was another lover competing for her All the papers lied tonight = All the love letters were a lie But falling over you is the news of the day = re-iterating the surprise he felt that someone else loved her
Angels fall like rain = Love from her was "heaven", now it's gone, so angels fall... love is all of heaven away = heaven was love, and so now love seems so far away...
inside you the time moves and she don't fade = we find that he is thinking of the past... time has passed (moved on), but her memory is still there the ghost in you she don't fade = once again, the memories don't fade
the race is on i'm on your side = back then he was competing for her...just like the first line of "runs a light"...competition for her...racing for her... hearing you my engines die = he drops everything whenever he hears from her i'm in a mood for you = he loves her or...
(for/or..i think "or") running away = ...or wants to run away from the pain...notice how he says this a little sadly...like he feels sad that a love can hurt so much when it's not returned, so you want to run away....
I believe he says "or running away" because in the previous line he says "for"...as in "I'm in a mood for you"...and clearly the "f" is enunciated there...but there's barely a hint of an "f" sound in the following "or running away" verse...
stars come down in you = since there is no "heaven", even the stars fall, but she still looked heavenly love you can't give it away = but she still won't give him love
don't you go it makes no sense = pleading : don't leave me
when all your "talk of supermen" just take away the time = talking about guys better him just takes away time from me trying to win you back OR when all your "talking supermen" just take away the time = other so called "better" guys competing for her takes away time from him trying to win her back
and get in the way = notice how he says this...like he's been pleading for her to come back, but then says this line like he just now realizes at that moment that he has no hope no matter what he says...
ain't it just like rain = so he cries, tears cuz he realizes there is no hope love is only heaven away = love for her was heaven, now it's not there and so love is far away....
So this is a song of a guy reminiscing of a failed love, and the spirit of what he loved in her will not go away....
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