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"
I talk to you as to a friend
I hope that's what you've
Come to be
It feels as though we've
Made amends
Like we found a way
Eventually
It was you who picked
The pieces up
When I was a broken soul
And then glued me
Back together
Returned to me what
Others stole
I don't want to hurt you
I don't want to make you sway
Like I know I've done before
I will not do it anymore
I've always been a dreamer
I've had my head among
The clouds
Now that I'm coming down
Won't you be my solid ground?
I look at you and see a friend
I hope that's what you want to be
Are we back now where
It all began?
Have you finally forgiven me?
You gathered my dreams in
When they all blew away
And then tricked them
Back into me
You saved me I was
Almost dead
You saved me when I was almost dead.
I don't want to hurt you,
I don't want to make you sway.
Like I've done before,
I will not do it anymore.
[Repeat x2]
I've always been a dreamer,
I've had my head among the clouds.
But now that I´m coming down,
Won't you be my solid ground?
I hope that's what you've
Come to be
It feels as though we've
Made amends
Like we found a way
Eventually
It was you who picked
The pieces up
When I was a broken soul
And then glued me
Back together
Returned to me what
Others stole
I don't want to hurt you
I don't want to make you sway
Like I know I've done before
I will not do it anymore
I've always been a dreamer
I've had my head among
The clouds
Now that I'm coming down
Won't you be my solid ground?
I look at you and see a friend
I hope that's what you want to be
Are we back now where
It all began?
Have you finally forgiven me?
You gathered my dreams in
When they all blew away
And then tricked them
Back into me
You saved me I was
Almost dead
You saved me when I was almost dead.
I don't want to hurt you,
I don't want to make you sway.
Like I've done before,
I will not do it anymore.
[Repeat x2]
I've always been a dreamer,
I've had my head among the clouds.
But now that I´m coming down,
Won't you be my solid ground?
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I think this is about a guy who was friends with someone and he kind of wanted to be more...and he was kind of the boat rocker, and the other person was the one who was trying to hold on to what they had. Then he finally realizes what he's done and promises he wont do anything anymore. They started out friends and now they kind of ended up where they started. Though he admits to his wrong being and wants to continue with what they had. Also she was the one who made him what he is today. -she forgives him
i pick to agree with your view on the song because then i can relate it to myself lol
To me it seems as if he and somebody he was in a former relationship with have finally made amends and become friends. And he's sorry for all of the times he hurt her in the end because when looking at the whole situation she was the one who pieced him back together and saved him from a troubled time with her love.
I don't know how many times I have cried to this song. It somehow touches me every time. I love it, and at the same time I hate it so god damn much!
i love this song
I don’t wanna hurt you I don’t wanna make you sway Like I know I’ve done before I will not do it anymore I’ve always been a dreamer I've had my head among the clouds Now that I’m coming down Won’t you be my solid ground?
such a good chorus it makes me want to never change the song.
Sounds better in Simlish.
Just kidding.
LTJpunkRk13 you're right on w/ the meaning
I have a love and hate relationship w/ this song, described my relationship w/ my best friend so well...
haha. I have the Simlish version on my Myspace page. I'm such a nerd :)
But I really like the lyrics, even though I'm not in a similar situation so I can't really relate. . . but:
"It was you who picked the pieces up When I was a broken soul And then glued me back together Returned to me what others stole"
"I’ve always been a dreamer I've had my head among the clouds Now that I’m coming down Won’t you be my solid ground?"
"You gathered my dreams in When they all blew away And then tricked them back into me You saved me I was almost dead"
Those three parts are BEAUTIFULLY written and can be related to anyone who's been an important part of your life.
This song is beautiful. They have someone to be their solid ground...what more do you need? :)
beautiful song. featured in veronica mars.
This is a very meaningful song to me as it marked the end of the really awkward relationship I've had with a girl. Unfortunately, things didn't play out in life as they do in the song. I really wish they did. I think out of the many broken relationship songs I've heard, Sway and Trouble Sleeping describe what happened to me most.
Thank you for the songs, guys.