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've just closed my eyes again
climbed up on the dreamweaver train
tryin' to take away my worries of today
and leave tomorrow behind
Chorus:
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive you can
get me through the night
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive we can
reach the morning light
Fly me high through the stary skies
and maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me forget todays pain
repeat Chorus
tho the dawn may be coming soon
there still may be some time
fly me away to the bright side of the moon
and meet me on the other side
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive you can
get me through the night
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive we can
reach the morning light
Dreamweaver...
Dreamweaver....
climbed up on the dreamweaver train
tryin' to take away my worries of today
and leave tomorrow behind
Chorus:
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive you can
get me through the night
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive we can
reach the morning light
Fly me high through the stary skies
and maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me forget todays pain
repeat Chorus
tho the dawn may be coming soon
there still may be some time
fly me away to the bright side of the moon
and meet me on the other side
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive you can
get me through the night
Ooo Dreamweaver, I beleive we can
reach the morning light
Dreamweaver...
Dreamweaver....
Lyrics submitted by okeefenokeeGiant
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Great song! It takes you away to another place.
You sure it's not a ballad about someone doped up, if you know what I mean? Just asking.
Guess not.
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When I have too much on my mind and then after a few pops get a great buzz, this song totally mellows me out.