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"
Can you see me now? Can you see me now? Can you see?
All this weeping in the air
I can tell were about to fall through floating forests in the air
Across the rolling open sea
Now I kiss and run through air, leave the past find nowhere
Floating forests in the air clowns all around you
Clowns are here to let you know where you let your senses go
Clowns all around you its a cross I need to bear
All this black and cruel is fair, this is an emergency
Don't you hide your eyes from me, open them and see me now
Can you see me now? Can you see? Can you see me now?
Can you see? Can you see? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now?
Can you see me now? Can you see clowns all around you
Can you see? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now?
Floating, floating, floating, floating
See me here in the air not holding on to anywhere
But holding on so beware I have secrets I won't share
See me here wishing you if I don't deny I do contemplate our wish away
If I ask you not to stay, clowns are here to let you know where you let your senses go
Clowns all around you it's a cross I need to bare
All this black and cruel is fair
This is an emergency don't you hide your eyes from me
Open them and see me now
Can you see me now? Can you see me now? Can you see? Can you see? Can you see?
All this weeping in the air
I can tell were about to fall through floating forests in the air
Across the rolling open sea
Now I kiss and run through air, leave the past find nowhere
Floating forests in the air clowns all around you
Clowns are here to let you know where you let your senses go
Clowns all around you its a cross I need to bear
All this black and cruel is fair, this is an emergency
Don't you hide your eyes from me, open them and see me now
Can you see me now? Can you see? Can you see me now?
Can you see? Can you see? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now?
Can you see me now? Can you see clowns all around you
Can you see? Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see me now?
Floating, floating, floating, floating
See me here in the air not holding on to anywhere
But holding on so beware I have secrets I won't share
See me here wishing you if I don't deny I do contemplate our wish away
If I ask you not to stay, clowns are here to let you know where you let your senses go
Clowns all around you it's a cross I need to bare
All this black and cruel is fair
This is an emergency don't you hide your eyes from me
Open them and see me now
Can you see me now? Can you see me now? Can you see? Can you see? Can you see?
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I really love this song, but these lyrics are seriously flawed.
I agree, who wrote these lyrics? They are totally wrong. If you are going to plan to write lyrics for a song, write them correctly.
I agree. >_> Someone needs to put up the right lyrics. As far as what it means...i'm not sure. I think it's about someone feeling like they're not noticed by whomever. But hey! I dunno. This song really confused me, for some reason.
This is a strange and cool song... like a lot of tatu's music. What is it about? I really want to know!
This is a good song, but I don't really have a meaning, just an idea for now.
I love all of t.A.T.u's music, the lyrics are correct. Read them and listen at the same time they're right, if you get the album, the lyrics in the book is the same. I have no idea about meaning either. ^_^
These lyrics look right to me. The problem with them is that they really don't come together to form a complete thought about anything. The lyrics that I get meaning from seem to be about a person who is very confused or lost in her world... and maybe the confusing, disjointed way the song was written was meant to make us feel as lost as the singer does... food for thought.
I love this song. The lyrics make no sense to me, though...
I believe that the meaning of this song as the title suggests, is about clowns, however, I think that clowns has a meaning other then the clowns we see in circuses. I think this clowns has more of a symbolic meaning to it. My rendition of the word clowns represents the “normal” people or the society reminding others how to behave in order to what is expected from us. And when we don’t follow the patterns society normally impose, they’re always going to be there to let us know “where you let your senses go”. To let us know what’s “wrong”. That’s the “cross I need to bear” (the obligation to behave in a certain way just because others say it is “right” and if not, bear the consequences and get judged and rejected). Clowns are always disguised, so why do they have to? To hide, they let their senses go too. After all, they’re humans too. That’s why they’re such clowns…trying to be something they aren’t to follow what’s expected of them. I think that the theme or message in the lyrics is that even if you’re different from everyone else its fine to be able to be that. Just be ready for the possible outcasting. Society and groups get rid of people when they pose a threat to what they believe in or the life to which they’re used to and you were too busy with your eyes closed, too scared to keep them open afraid of what might happen