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"
They look down
At the ground
Missing
But I never go in now
I'm looking at the big sky
I'm looking at the big sky now
I'm looking at the big sky
You never really understood me
You never really tried
That cloud, that cloud
Looks like Ireland
C'mon and blow it a kiss now
But quick
'Cause its changing in the big sky
Its changing in the big sky now
We're looking at the big sky
You never understood me
You never really tried
This cloud, this cloud
Says Noah
C'mon and build me an ark
And if you're coming, jump
'Cause we're leaving with the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
We're looking at the
We're looking at the
And we pause for the jets
Hup, hup, in the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
You want my reply?
What was the question?
I was looking at the big sky
We're looking at the
Tell 'em, sisters
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
At the ground
Missing
But I never go in now
I'm looking at the big sky
I'm looking at the big sky now
I'm looking at the big sky
You never really understood me
You never really tried
That cloud, that cloud
Looks like Ireland
C'mon and blow it a kiss now
But quick
'Cause its changing in the big sky
Its changing in the big sky now
We're looking at the big sky
You never understood me
You never really tried
This cloud, this cloud
Says Noah
C'mon and build me an ark
And if you're coming, jump
'Cause we're leaving with the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
We're looking at the
We're looking at the
And we pause for the jets
Hup, hup, in the big sky
We're leaving with the big sky
You want my reply?
What was the question?
I was looking at the big sky
We're looking at the
Tell 'em, sisters
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Rolling over like a great big cloud
Rolling over with the big sky
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery, edited by maremaremare
The Big Sky Lyrics as written by Kate Bush
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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"You never understood me You never really tried"
Love it.