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 think I deserve this
You said I was stupid
All my thoughts are like coal
But Russia on ice is burning a hole
Can't stop myself drinking
Can't stop being me
If I call will you come and will you save me ?
I see the whole thing come down
I blow it to the ground
Well what the hell did you say ?
You said you hate me this way
It's just a matter of time
A drop in the ocean
A significant motion
Nothing melts in this cold
But Russia on ice is burning a hole
You said I was stupid
All my thoughts are like coal
But Russia on ice is burning a hole
Can't stop myself drinking
Can't stop being me
If I call will you come and will you save me ?
I see the whole thing come down
I blow it to the ground
Well what the hell did you say ?
You said you hate me this way
It's just a matter of time
A drop in the ocean
A significant motion
Nothing melts in this cold
But Russia on ice is burning a hole
Lyrics submitted by Ministry, edited by joey110715
Russia on Ice Lyrics as written by Colin Edwin Balch Steven Wilson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing
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Could be partly drawn from "Die Another Day" (2002), staring Pierce Brosnan. This is the last James Bond movie for Brosnan. (Note: "From Russia with Love" is the second Bond movie, in which a beautiful Russian defector falls in love with Bond just from seeing a photo in his file. Also, "Diamonds are Forever" is the sixth Bond movie and also has a satellite-laser-destruction machine.)
Back to "Die Another Day": Miranda Frost is a double agent paired with the hero by the powers that be. Her opinion of Bond: "He'll light the fuse on any explosive situation, and be a danger to himself and others..." She also says to him, "I know all about you - sex for dinner, death for breakfast."
She is a good fencer (Olympic gold-medal winner, although by devious means). And it turns out that she betrayed Bond and that led to fourteen months of torture. See the partial scripting below:
Graves: Ms. Frost is not all she seems. James Bond: Looks can be deceptive. Graves: Yes. By the way, did you find out who betrayed you in North Korea? James Bond: ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. Graves: You never even thought of looking inside your own organization? [Miranda points her gun at James] Graves: She was right under your nose. [James shoots, but his gun is empty] Miranda Frost:It was so good of you to bring your gun in bed with us. James Bond: Yes. Occupational hazard. [Bond throws the empty pistol on the floor] Graves: You see, I have a gift. An instinct for sensing people's weaknesses. Yours is women. Hers and mine are winning, whatever the cost. So when I arranged for that fatal overdose for the true victor at Sydney, I won myself my very own MI6 agent, using everthing at my disposal - her brains, her talent, even her sex. James Bond: The COLDEST WEAPON OF ALL.
Then Bond uses a special gadget to break the glass platform where they stand. Bond falls and survives while Miranda Frost escapes.
Some other dialog: James Bond: Can I expect the pleasure of you in Iceland? Miranda Frost: I'm afraid you'll never have that pleasure, Mr. Bond.
And at another point: Miranda Frost: I'll show you your room. James Bond: A palace of ice; you must feel right at home.
So.... is it a stretch to think that maybe seeing this film prompted the writing about a relationship breakup?
It simply isn't possible for "Die Another Day" to have influenced "Russia On Ice". "Stupid Dream", the album it is on was recorded from January to November 1998 and released in March 1999, while "Die Another Day" premiered in late November 2002. So unless Steven Wilson has the ability to travel through time (which, given his amazing abilities as a Songwriter and Producer of both his as well as other bands' music, I doubt he would use to watch terrible films for incorporation into previous released work) I highly doubt "Russia On Ice" was influenced in such a way. ;-D