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"
These back steps are steeper to the ground
The brightest stars are falling down
I'm walking the edge
I'm walking the tightest rope
And we can be frank
Reality rips on through rolling like a hurricane
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
These four walls are closing in on me
The talk is louder than I'll sing
I want to be there
I want to be where you are
But you know it all
Every look and smile that are meant to break
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
You said that everything's different
Why don't we just hold on
You say that everything is different
Why don't we just hold on
Crashing down, crashing down
Crashing down, crashing down
You come crashing down
You come crashing down
The brightest stars are falling down
I'm walking the edge
I'm walking the tightest rope
And we can be frank
Reality rips on through rolling like a hurricane
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
These four walls are closing in on me
The talk is louder than I'll sing
I want to be there
I want to be where you are
But you know it all
Every look and smile that are meant to break
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
You said that everything's different
Why don't we just hold on
You say that everything is different
Why don't we just hold on
Crashing down, crashing down
Crashing down, crashing down
You come crashing down
You come crashing down
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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You know, I think this song is about someone in a relationship (let's say a girl singing to her boyfriend).. She loves him as a person, loves their relationship, but knows that something is missing... and yet he keeps trying to hold on to her, because he loves her so much... ("you say, that everything is different, why don't we just hold on...").
Eventually the relationship ends - or while it is ending - she's singing to him... "you're still holding my heart, you come crashing down". She knows he is aching for her and the eventual lost relationship... and it hurts her all the same, because he knows everything about her. She wishes she could go back to the way it was when it all began, when it was simple.
The line "What do I have to live for if it's just my own dream..." may refer to her being upset at the failed relationship due to her dream of "Mr. Right"... (living alone now, having given up a perfectly wonderful guy just beacuse he isn't her "dream"). Sigh. I love this song, it makes me cry every time I hear it.
When i listen to this song i get a wierd feeling like he is singing about someone he loves, or a lover. But when i think of it in a literal sense it almost seems like he is talking about his relationship with god. not sure at all though
best song ever. no matter what i means,... the lyrics just are so great.
Sounds like he's describing a struggling relationship. The person he loves is pushing him away, and he's remembering how good it used to be.
Great heartbreak description: "Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart / You come crashing down, crashing down."
This really seems to be about a failed relationship...I like the continuity and quality of the lyrics. It's very dense but it's good stuff :D My favorite line is the same... "Gravity's pulling..."
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"I'm over the bridge and under the rain." he's pulled himself from the severity of the inevitably devestating flooding river that we all must if we are to move on. but the cold stinging drops of (p)ain are still f'ing with him from time to time. and may always... anybody else hear that?
This song is very similar to "Broken Jesus" by Loudness.
I think this song is about a relationship that almost was between good friends. They both know there is some undeniable connection between them but they cant be together because she is in a relationship. I always think about it like he is telling her how he feels but she is afraid. He wonders what he is doing here and why its just him that is day dreaming about what they could be.
but this could just be me relating songs I hear to my situation. I mean no one does that...