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 seen a sight as beautiful
As that of the rain-soaked purple
Of the white birch in spring?
Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful
Than on a warm fall night
Under a Mackerel sky,
The smell of grapes on the wind?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And I'll share them all for a cup of coffee
And to wear your ring
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching
A quiet winter's snow slowly gathering
Like simple moments adding up?
Have you ever satisfied a gut feeling
To follow a dry dirt road that's beckoning you
To the heart of a shimmering summer's day?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And I'll share them all for a cup of coffee
And to wear your ring
And I don't know how I survived those days
Before I held your hand
Well I never thought that I would be the one
To admit that the moon and the sun
Shine so much more brighter when
Seen through two pairs of eyes than
When seen through just one
Have you ever seen a sight as beautiful
As a face in a crowd of people
That lights up just for you?
Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful
As when you wake
By the side of that boy or girl
Who has pledged their love to you?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And now every morning there's a cup of coffee
And I wear your ring
As that of the rain-soaked purple
Of the white birch in spring?
Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful
Than on a warm fall night
Under a Mackerel sky,
The smell of grapes on the wind?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And I'll share them all for a cup of coffee
And to wear your ring
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching
A quiet winter's snow slowly gathering
Like simple moments adding up?
Have you ever satisfied a gut feeling
To follow a dry dirt road that's beckoning you
To the heart of a shimmering summer's day?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And I'll share them all for a cup of coffee
And to wear your ring
And I don't know how I survived those days
Before I held your hand
Well I never thought that I would be the one
To admit that the moon and the sun
Shine so much more brighter when
Seen through two pairs of eyes than
When seen through just one
Have you ever seen a sight as beautiful
As a face in a crowd of people
That lights up just for you?
Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful
As when you wake
By the side of that boy or girl
Who has pledged their love to you?
Well I have known all these things
And the joys that they can bring
And now every morning there's a cup of coffee
And I wear your ring
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I drew him like a bath then sat and soaked watching the bubbles disappear as a ring around the tub gave us the age of trees
Happy Anniversary, Babe
I wear your ring
~ Awww, Victrola, that is so sweet!!! Thank you for adding that ; )
Sly