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"
Baby let's go below the surface
See what we can find
There's no reason to be nervous
'Cause it happens all the time
I don't want to go up to the mountain
I don't need to go down to the sea
Gonna sit right here 'till we unravel
The mystery
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
And I don't want to wait until tomorrow
'Cause the fortune said that "The time is now"
It's time to find out what we're doing
What we're doing anyhow
Let's go out in the moonlight
And walk for awhile
Maybe stay up all night and we could
Talk for awhile
Kick off your shoes
'Cause you've got nothing to lose
But your sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
It's an open invitation
So baby don't you cry
It's a life long celebration
And I think we're right on time
It's a feeling in your heart
And a lump in the throat
It's a strange and lovely ride
want to dig down deep inside
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
Could you dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
See what we can find
There's no reason to be nervous
'Cause it happens all the time
I don't want to go up to the mountain
I don't need to go down to the sea
Gonna sit right here 'till we unravel
The mystery
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
And I don't want to wait until tomorrow
'Cause the fortune said that "The time is now"
It's time to find out what we're doing
What we're doing anyhow
Let's go out in the moonlight
And walk for awhile
Maybe stay up all night and we could
Talk for awhile
Kick off your shoes
'Cause you've got nothing to lose
But your sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
It's an open invitation
So baby don't you cry
It's a life long celebration
And I think we're right on time
It's a feeling in your heart
And a lump in the throat
It's a strange and lovely ride
want to dig down deep inside
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
Could you dig down deep
I want to dig down deep
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Dig Down Deep Lyrics as written by Marc Cohn
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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i'm suprised no one's commented on this song! i love it, i think it's so beautiful in a very blunt, everyday sort of way...(haha)
when i first heard it, i didn't really like it, as the usual beloved song about wanting to "make love" is very metaphorical; just take savage garden's "truly madly deeply" for example. but this song says the exact same thing except in a very everyday, relatable fashion, which is very abnormal and difficult to pull off without sounding like a desperate fool, and marc does it perfectly. :)
the line "i don't want to go up to the mountain, i don't need to go down to the sea" is so priceless. knowing and loving the savage garden song as well as i do, i saw it as the perfect jab at all of those flowery love songs, and grinned when i first heard it. i have since then grown to love this song for its simple beauty.
marc cohn is an incredible singer and songwriter. can't wait for him to play in my area.