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"
Ah, because the world is round
it turns me on
Because the world is round
Ah, because the wind is high
it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you
Because the sky is blue
it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
Ah, ah, ah, ah
it turns me on
Because the world is round
Ah, because the wind is high
it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you
Because the sky is blue
it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Lyrics submitted by dragonflower44, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Because Lyrics as written by Paul Mccartney John Lennon
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covers of beatles songs are just plain sacrilegious... but elliott, because he is so exceptional, totally pulls it off. beautiful.
BEATLES COVER!
I think this song is perfect for the end credits of one of my favorite movies, "American Beauty". I couldn't believe that I hadn't noticed Elliott had played this song before. But it's a great song for the film sung by a great artist.
they say when you play because backwards, it's a beethoven song. i forget which beethoven piece though.
hey asknoquestions. it's beethoven's moonlight sonata
yeah i just did it on my itunes. true story. just play it slowly backwards and you can hear it. (:
I adore this song, it's one of the first I heard by him, even though I knew it was the Beatles. It's so beautiful though, it made me cry.. I cry a lot :ox
i agree.. usually i hate when anyone tries to do the beatles cause why do something thats already great, but witih elliott, he always somehow made it better.. at least for me.
he said the following about recording this song:
another recent cover doesn't appear on the new album -- smith's otherworldly reworking of the beatles' "because," recorded for the american beauty soundtrack. smith, a fab four fanatic since early childhood, was initially reluctant to remake a beatles tune -- something about treading on sacred ground. "what's the point?" he says. "it was fun to do, it's just weird to think about. but that's the way most things are, and that's the way this record has been. it was fun to do, but not much fun to think about -- particularly that ocean of opinion that surrounds every record that people put out."
This song is unlike any other I have yet to hear. I love this version, though I love the hear the original as well.
love it. pretty melancholy, but its great to listen to when youre feeling mellow. is it really beethoven backwards?