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"
You there on the bridge, where have you been? What's your name?
And you there on the wall, where will you go to once you fall?
You lost at sea, do you need me, do need directions?
Hey, put down the gun. What are you thinking? You were someone's son.
The taste of tears, the sting of pain,
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying now.
A long, long time ago I fell to this place from another dimension,
And thrust amongst the beasts and the way they behave borders on dementia.
And now through all these years I can barely take it, I don't think I can make it.
Take me away from here, I want to go home...I'm so sick and tired of
The taste of tears, the sting of pain,
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying.
Now, as you stand around the edge of your life
What do you remember, was it all you wanted ?
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings
I wish I could protect you here
Oh please don't cry now, smile
As you stand around the edge of your life
You're troubles are over, mine are just beginning.
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings to take me away from here.
It's me you leave behind.
Oh, if only I could have been there, I'd be a hand for the sinking.
If only I could have been there, I'd be a prayer for the dying.
See the pain etched in my face...oh, I'm so sick and tried of
The taste of tears, the sting of pain
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying
Now, as you stand around the edge of your life,
what do you remember, was it all you wanted?
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings
I wish I could protect you here
Oh please don't cry now, smile
As you stand around the edge of your life
You're troubles are over, mine are just beginning
I'm trying earn a set of feathery wings to take me away from here
It's me you leave...
You're gone from here,
Don't leave from here,
Don't leave me here,
I hate it here,
You're gone from here,
Don't leave me here,
I need you here,
I need to see you smile.
And you there on the wall, where will you go to once you fall?
You lost at sea, do you need me, do need directions?
Hey, put down the gun. What are you thinking? You were someone's son.
The taste of tears, the sting of pain,
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying now.
A long, long time ago I fell to this place from another dimension,
And thrust amongst the beasts and the way they behave borders on dementia.
And now through all these years I can barely take it, I don't think I can make it.
Take me away from here, I want to go home...I'm so sick and tired of
The taste of tears, the sting of pain,
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying.
Now, as you stand around the edge of your life
What do you remember, was it all you wanted ?
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings
I wish I could protect you here
Oh please don't cry now, smile
As you stand around the edge of your life
You're troubles are over, mine are just beginning.
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings to take me away from here.
It's me you leave behind.
Oh, if only I could have been there, I'd be a hand for the sinking.
If only I could have been there, I'd be a prayer for the dying.
See the pain etched in my face...oh, I'm so sick and tried of
The taste of tears, the sting of pain
The smell of fear, the sounds of crying
Now, as you stand around the edge of your life,
what do you remember, was it all you wanted?
I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings
I wish I could protect you here
Oh please don't cry now, smile
As you stand around the edge of your life
You're troubles are over, mine are just beginning
I'm trying earn a set of feathery wings to take me away from here
It's me you leave...
You're gone from here,
Don't leave from here,
Don't leave me here,
I hate it here,
You're gone from here,
Don't leave me here,
I need you here,
I need to see you smile.
Lyrics submitted by faust
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