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"
Golden waves
In all directions
I could lose my soul right here
Colour lights
On the runway
Makes a stranger feel unchained
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do the best I can not to worry about things
I feel loose
I feel haggard
Don't know what I'm looking for
Something true
Something lovely
That will make me feel alive
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do the best I can not to worry about things
Like a vagabond through the distance
Looking for a song to sing
A song that lasts all night
And for the rest of our lifes
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do my best I can not to worry about things
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
(I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine)
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
(Summer days will come happiness will be mine)
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
(I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going)
I do the best I can not to worry about things
(I do the best I can not to worry about things)
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
(I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine)
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
(Summer days will come happiness will be mine)
Oh, shit!
In all directions
I could lose my soul right here
Colour lights
On the runway
Makes a stranger feel unchained
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do the best I can not to worry about things
I feel loose
I feel haggard
Don't know what I'm looking for
Something true
Something lovely
That will make me feel alive
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do the best I can not to worry about things
Like a vagabond through the distance
Looking for a song to sing
A song that lasts all night
And for the rest of our lifes
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do my best I can not to worry about things
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
(I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine)
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
(Summer days will come happiness will be mine)
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
(I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going)
I do the best I can not to worry about things
(I do the best I can not to worry about things)
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
(I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine)
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
(Summer days will come happiness will be mine)
Oh, shit!
Lyrics submitted by Nelly
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MAn this song rules. Air kick ass, however Moon Safari is mucn better that 10000hz
anything with Beck, automatically surpasses past recordings
haha. .oh shit
awesome song. could listen to over and over. i really think its about a vagabond. looking for something, something he cant touch. hes just searching endlesly for this thing he cant have. but hes happy doing it and he really doesnt care. beck is my hero and so are air. so how can you go wrong?
I think a lot of people don't like that Beck is so much more present here than Air, but I fucking love Beck anyway.
the lyrics are great, If im ever upset and feel lost i can listen to this song and be ok
the lyrics are great, If im ever upset and feel lost i can listen to this song and be ok
anybody know where i can get harmonica tabs for this song?
Woah, a collation between two of my favourite artists. What more can I say? It's got the beauty of Air yet the very weird, laid back Beck addition. The two go together very well.
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Woah, a collation between two of my favourite artists. What more can I say? It's got the beauty of Air yet the very weird, laid back Beck addition. The two go together very well.
To me the song is about being stuck in a routine, with something lingering close in the future. The end is constantly getting closer. Seeking meaning of things is evident also. I love it.
'oh shit!'