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"
Have you ever been haunted the way I've been by you.
And have you ever felt the measure of the days that I've spent waiting, pining for you.
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I don't want to step from these shadows, 'til you're coming back again.
I've dammed the emotions to keep my lanterns lit.
I'm shaken by this longing coursing through my veins.
In mind my I can't make sense of it.
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I get so used to these shadows.
Are you coming back again?
Do we give up this search and turn out the light?
Give up this holy ghost that rattles thought the night?
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I get do used to these shadows.
Will you chase away these shadows when you come back again?
And have you ever felt the measure of the days that I've spent waiting, pining for you.
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I don't want to step from these shadows, 'til you're coming back again.
I've dammed the emotions to keep my lanterns lit.
I'm shaken by this longing coursing through my veins.
In mind my I can't make sense of it.
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I get so used to these shadows.
Are you coming back again?
Do we give up this search and turn out the light?
Give up this holy ghost that rattles thought the night?
I can't see the sun for the daylight.
I can't feel your breath for the wind.
I get do used to these shadows.
Will you chase away these shadows when you come back again?
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this song is pretty cool. but still... it's sad... it seems to me that this song what this person is singing about is about some person waiting for someone. well yeah it's quite obious. but how long will the person wait for this person to come back? that's the question.
Heh, cool. I think Dan Haseltine (the lead singer / songwriter) is talking about his relationship w/ God. The cool thing about the song is that it can be related to on many levels, though.
--peace--
I definitely see the song as referring to a relationship with God, or more specifically Jesus. It doesn't get much clearer than "keep my laterns lit." :) I think the song is pretty much questioning things about the Second Coming.
this is a great song, portraying so many shared feelings by christians today Dan Haseltine probably 99% talking about his own struggles that he shares, and this is a great part of Jars of Clay's ministry. They reach out to their fans, showing them that JOC is no where near perfect, they have their own doubts, their own fears, and their own struggles but above all they are living life for God. This song istelf is great, and the line "I don't want to step from these shadows" shows a shared feeling so many chrisitans have, of being luke warm, not feeling God's presence in their lives at many times, yet the song ends very hopefully, shown mainly by the fact that He will come back
I think this song does reflect the writer's relationship with God and how much he longs for heaven, for his coming back again. I think this song is portrays eagerness for the Second Coming through a restless tone (about being in the world)