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"
Lie with me somewhere under sleepy stars
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the edge of night
Lie with me in the tall wet grass
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the edge of light
Somewhere where it can be
Just you and me
I believe in the absence of sun
I believe in the shadow of one
I believe in the power of two
I believe in the darkness of you
My love, my love, my darkest love
Lie with me somewhere under desert hills
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the virgin sand
Lie with me on the warm black stones
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the virgin strand
Somewhere where it can be
Just you and me
I believe in the absence of sun
I believe in the shadow of one
I believe in the power of two
I believe in the darkness of you
My love, my love, my darkest love
All I need is you to show me the light
All I need is you to show me the light
All I need is you to show me the light
Show me, show me, show me the light
[spoken text]
In this still beating night
I lie close to your face
The moon is a spotlight
For this quiet space
If we stay still like statues
And don't say a word
We will not be seen
We will not be heard
The stillness has purpose
Its own subtle dance
If we move just an inch
We have ruined this chance
It's the calm that is key here
Its coolness has strength
It shadows hold mysteries
Locked to great lengths
Black like a bible
Read words in hand
Black like a crow
Flying low to the sand
All eyes are closed to the absence of light
Those others, still sleeping, are nowhere in sight
But we hear the starfall that cannot be seen
And we feel the stirrings of things in between
Tell me dreams in the dark
That you can't tell by day
And ways you've discovered
To hold dawn at bay
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the edge of night
Lie with me in the tall wet grass
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the edge of light
Somewhere where it can be
Just you and me
I believe in the absence of sun
I believe in the shadow of one
I believe in the power of two
I believe in the darkness of you
My love, my love, my darkest love
Lie with me somewhere under desert hills
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the virgin sand
Lie with me on the warm black stones
Darlin' lie with me somewhere on the virgin strand
Somewhere where it can be
Just you and me
I believe in the absence of sun
I believe in the shadow of one
I believe in the power of two
I believe in the darkness of you
My love, my love, my darkest love
All I need is you to show me the light
All I need is you to show me the light
All I need is you to show me the light
Show me, show me, show me the light
[spoken text]
In this still beating night
I lie close to your face
The moon is a spotlight
For this quiet space
If we stay still like statues
And don't say a word
We will not be seen
We will not be heard
The stillness has purpose
Its own subtle dance
If we move just an inch
We have ruined this chance
It's the calm that is key here
Its coolness has strength
It shadows hold mysteries
Locked to great lengths
Black like a bible
Read words in hand
Black like a crow
Flying low to the sand
All eyes are closed to the absence of light
Those others, still sleeping, are nowhere in sight
But we hear the starfall that cannot be seen
And we feel the stirrings of things in between
Tell me dreams in the dark
That you can't tell by day
And ways you've discovered
To hold dawn at bay
Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry
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