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"
There is no need to throw your arms around
And there is no need to ask unless there is some doubt
If you are comfortable with two feet on the ground
You don't need wings now
Have you set down your course or are you out of control, my dear?
Are you accidentally part of some involuntary movement here?
We thought we knew it so well we could do it with our arms tied behind our backs
And our eyes shut tight
I thought I knew it so well I could stop
So I stopped and we can't start again
Stand under the hole in your roof
Let the rain come in and fall down on your head
It's a simple joy you can bring upon yourself
It's a simple something new, something else
Trees stand in a perfect line
Trees stand at attention
Not much time has passed
But already she likes concrete better than grass
And I don't think we'll last
So I stare up at the sky and it hurts my eyes
Maybe I'll go blind
Maybe all I'll see is, all I'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Just trying to sound
I'm not trying to sound
I don't wanna sound like this
You're the last day of april every year
You're grey, feeling for something anything, you can't have
Oversize, owning the road
Pulled by a current, tossed over in the wind
You focus your sights and try
To stare up at the sky
And it hurts your eyes
Maybe you'll go blind
Or maybe all you'll see is, all you'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Walk in a straight line
You waste energy in the daytime
You know exactly what you're doing, doing
Sometimes
And there is no need to ask unless there is some doubt
If you are comfortable with two feet on the ground
You don't need wings now
Have you set down your course or are you out of control, my dear?
Are you accidentally part of some involuntary movement here?
We thought we knew it so well we could do it with our arms tied behind our backs
And our eyes shut tight
I thought I knew it so well I could stop
So I stopped and we can't start again
Stand under the hole in your roof
Let the rain come in and fall down on your head
It's a simple joy you can bring upon yourself
It's a simple something new, something else
Trees stand in a perfect line
Trees stand at attention
Not much time has passed
But already she likes concrete better than grass
And I don't think we'll last
So I stare up at the sky and it hurts my eyes
Maybe I'll go blind
Maybe all I'll see is, all I'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Just trying to sound
I'm not trying to sound
I don't wanna sound like this
You're the last day of april every year
You're grey, feeling for something anything, you can't have
Oversize, owning the road
Pulled by a current, tossed over in the wind
You focus your sights and try
To stare up at the sky
And it hurts your eyes
Maybe you'll go blind
Or maybe all you'll see is, all you'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Walk in a straight line
You waste energy in the daytime
You know exactly what you're doing, doing
Sometimes
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I think this is a song about a car, a grey car – with a pinstripe – that broke down on the 30th of April. The beginning describes someone driving down a road, maybe with cruise control on (two feet on the ground), but then...
"I thought I knew it so well I could stop So I stopped and we can't start again"
The car wouldn't start again. It was a sunny day, there were some trees along the road. And then a truck came to take the car away (Oversize) or maybe it just drove by as trucks do on country roads.
"Just trying to sound I'm not trying to sound I don't wanna sound like this" – is like the sound of an engine that won't start.
People get pretty sentimental about their cars.