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"
Did you see the sky?
I think it means that we've been lost
Maybe one last time is all we need
I can't really help it
If my tongue's all tied in knots
Jumping off a bridge is just the farthest
That I've ever been
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
I know we're headed somewhere
I can see how far we've come
But still I can't remember anything
Let's not do the wrong thing
And I'll swear it might be fun
It's a long way down
When all the knots we've tied have come undone
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
How you gonna ever find your place
Running an artificial pace?
Are they gonna find us lying face down in the sand
So what the hell? Now we've already been forever damned
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far (follow you down)
I'll follow you down, but not that far (follow you down)
I think it means that we've been lost
Maybe one last time is all we need
I can't really help it
If my tongue's all tied in knots
Jumping off a bridge is just the farthest
That I've ever been
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
I know we're headed somewhere
I can see how far we've come
But still I can't remember anything
Let's not do the wrong thing
And I'll swear it might be fun
It's a long way down
When all the knots we've tied have come undone
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
How you gonna ever find your place
Running an artificial pace?
Are they gonna find us lying face down in the sand
So what the hell? Now we've already been forever damned
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Any place but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far (follow you down)
I'll follow you down, but not that far (follow you down)
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isn't this song about bungee jumping?
or to be fair, isn't the song about bungee jumping imagery as a metaphor to convey a deeper meaning?
i think this song came out around the time bungee jumping started growing in popularity.
"Did you see the sky [if not then] I think it means that we've been lost" if you haven't seen the sky, it means we've lost our connection to nature, being holed up indoors, working/studying/running the rat race/whatnot.
"Maybe one less time is all we need" we need one less time staying indoors-let's go out and enjoy nature under the sky.
"I can't really help it if my tongue's all tied in knots" i've been indoors running the rat race for so long i can't help it if i can't talk straight.
"Jumping off a bridge, it's just the farthest that I've ever been" the coolest, most daring thing i've ever done is bungee jumping (& u should try it with me!)
"Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down"-anywhere you go to bungee-jump, i'll come too.
"Anyplace but those I know by heart" I'll follow you in doing anything except for the boring, repetitive stuff that I've done so many times its like I've memorized it. i.e., let's go do something different, like bungee jumping!
"...but not that far" but not farther (deeper) than ground-level (or sea-level) b/c that would hurt!
"I know we're headed somewhere," as we bungee-jump, we're inevitably heading downward.
"I can see how far we've come" I can see how far we've bungee-jumped just by looking.
"Let's not do the wrong thing and I'll swear it might be fun" lets follow all safety precautions....
"It's a long way down when all the knots we've tied have come undone" if we're not safe and the bungee cord comes loose, it'll be a dangerous, potentially fatal fall.
"How you gonna ever find your place/Running in an artificial pace" how you gonna ever feel good living at a pace artificially set by society (unless you go bungee jumping with me?)
"Are they gonna find us lying face down in the sand" are we going to be found dead at the bottom of the cliff due to a failed/fatal bungee jump?
"So what the hell now, we've already been forever damned" who cares, we're going to die someday (and probably face damnation) anyway, so let's just do it!
--Mike
@mliem411 Well-stated. That's how I see it, too.