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"
Feelin' sick once again
I'd give anything
To be back home
Safe and warm inside
I can't stand the crowds
Or the smell that surrounds me
The cloth and key
Still preach chastity
Take me back so I can see
The way it used to be
I lay down and enter a dream
Unlike anywhere I've been
All is silent and sweet
Then I'm falling down to the ground
And I'm lost from what I've found
Can't stand the sounds no more
Take me back so I can see
The way it used to be
The way it used to be
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Radio waves
Splash through my head
To a rhythm that I crave
Radio waves
Relive the moment
Seems like yesterday
Take me back to Twelve Mile Bay
Where I'll sit at the edge with my feet in the water
Take me back as the sun fades away
Break down the walls so I can breathe
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
The way it used to be
The way it used to be
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
I'd give anything
To be back home
Safe and warm inside
I can't stand the crowds
Or the smell that surrounds me
The cloth and key
Still preach chastity
Take me back so I can see
The way it used to be
I lay down and enter a dream
Unlike anywhere I've been
All is silent and sweet
Then I'm falling down to the ground
And I'm lost from what I've found
Can't stand the sounds no more
Take me back so I can see
The way it used to be
The way it used to be
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Radio waves
Splash through my head
To a rhythm that I crave
Radio waves
Relive the moment
Seems like yesterday
Take me back to Twelve Mile Bay
Where I'll sit at the edge with my feet in the water
Take me back as the sun fades away
Break down the walls so I can breathe
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
The way it used to be
The way it used to be
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
Too cold to swim
Bring me to the land
Move me from the water
That I see within
Lyrics submitted by Idan
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