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"
"Take me to another place", she said
"Take me to another time
Run with me across the oceans
Float me on a silver cloud"
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
"Stay with me till time turns over
I want to feel my feet leave the ground
Take me where the whispering breezes
Can lift me up and spin me around"
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
Hear you laughing as we go
Flipping backward through the doors and through the windows
I'm melting into nothing
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
"Take me to another time
Run with me across the oceans
Float me on a silver cloud"
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
"Stay with me till time turns over
I want to feel my feet leave the ground
Take me where the whispering breezes
Can lift me up and spin me around"
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
Hear you laughing as we go
Flipping backward through the doors and through the windows
I'm melting into nothing
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
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I don't know why anyone has written about this song. I love it. The voice solo's of the woman are amazingly touching to me. I enjoy chillen with my girl and listening to it. If anymore phans out there like this song too, please write about it!
amen to you brother! lol. yea i love this song too. its one of my first ever phish songs, and i completely fell in love. i wish i could say i enjoyed hanging with my boy while listening to this song...however i do not have a boy. poo! but yea, this is a great song!
great song...i love when phish gets into love like waste...this song really got me into phish too..
love this song..i really like phish love songs they make me smile and they're all so beautiful. the girl singing is alison krauss, right? i'm not positive so if anyone could confirm for me that would be great :)
this song is phantastic, who is alison krauss?
She's the lady that sings in this song..she also plays the fiddle. I love this song, it was the first song I forced on people who didn't like phish to convert them. It didn't work, but I think they're deaf
to answer my own question
this whole album converted me to phishlosiphy!LMAO! i just came up w/ that line, thats great. for all of you who use that line"phishlosiphy" give "staggerleaf" his props man! tootin my own horn i am. but this WHOLE album rules "hoist"!!!! tc all