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"
When I look up at the stars at night
What could I find beyond the light
A hundred million worlds that we ignore
Who can restrain Pleiades's
Or know the laws of heavenly's
How many times have we been wrong before
Far off in the field I see a castle
Today the people gather at the pole
He tried to tell us all the world was spherical
They burned his body but not his soul
What could I find beyond the light
A hundred million worlds that we ignore
Who can restrain Pleiades's
Or know the laws of heavenly's
How many times have we been wrong before
Far off in the field I see a castle
Today the people gather at the pole
He tried to tell us all the world was spherical
They burned his body but not his soul
Lyrics submitted by jules4099, edited by Octavarium64
Pleiades Lyrics as written by Doug T. Pinnick Dale Richardson
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This was very controversial at the time. Galileo was basically considered a heretic by the church and was imprisoned, under house arrest for the last 30+ years of his life.
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A song about Giordano Bruno, who was persecuted (and burned at the stake) by the catholic church for holding opinions contrary to the doctrine. Among his "heresies" were believing that the Earth was round, and that there were multiple worlds in the heavens.
As an addition to my previous comment, i would also like to add that i believe this song is sung from first person point of view of Galileo.
The last verse is him witnessing the torture of 'non-believers' (including burnings) at the hands of the Catholic Church during the inquisition. Most likely during his house arrest.
Non-believers were often tortured (in attempts to 'convert them') or killed via beatings, floggings, burnings, and other human torture.
Galileo himself was persecuted, but continued to research and innovate even in light of his shameful treatment by the Church.
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God asks Job:
Job 38:31 Can you direct the movement of the stars— binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?
It is a book about the ancient mind trying to come to terms with suffering. It includes pictures like this of God's hand in the creation of the whole cosmos. Awe and wonderment.
This ties in with the message of the song. We don't know all the answers.