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"
Come in, come in, come in, come in
From under these darling skies come in
It's warm and it's safe here and almost harkening
Off to a time and place now lost on our imagination
Where you don't complain, but you still do
And you don't explain if you want to explain
What you believe you say without shame, 'I just do'
To say what you mean you don't mean what you say
Or you do
Where the wild are strong (Wild are strong)
And the strong are the darkest ones (The strong are the darkest ones)
And you're the darkest one
Come in, come in, come in, come in
From thin and wicked prairie winds, come in
It's warm and it's safe here and almost heartening
Here in a time and place not lost on our imagination
Where you don't explain, but you still do
And you can complain if you want to complain
Where you're real instrumental or supple
Or sexy as hell
Where you say 'I believe' or say without shame
'I can't tell'
Where the wild are strong (Wild are strong)
And the strong are the darkest ones (The strong are the darkest ones)
And you're the darkest one
And you're the darkest one
And if that's what you want
Oh then you're the darkest one
From under these darling skies come in
It's warm and it's safe here and almost harkening
Off to a time and place now lost on our imagination
Where you don't complain, but you still do
And you don't explain if you want to explain
What you believe you say without shame, 'I just do'
To say what you mean you don't mean what you say
Or you do
Where the wild are strong (Wild are strong)
And the strong are the darkest ones (The strong are the darkest ones)
And you're the darkest one
Come in, come in, come in, come in
From thin and wicked prairie winds, come in
It's warm and it's safe here and almost heartening
Here in a time and place not lost on our imagination
Where you don't explain, but you still do
And you can complain if you want to complain
Where you're real instrumental or supple
Or sexy as hell
Where you say 'I believe' or say without shame
'I can't tell'
Where the wild are strong (Wild are strong)
And the strong are the darkest ones (The strong are the darkest ones)
And you're the darkest one
And you're the darkest one
And if that's what you want
Oh then you're the darkest one
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What could be better? The Hip, Don Cherry and the Trailer Park Boys! Ha Ha, if that isn't a slice of Canadiana I don't know what is.
Seriously though, if you haven't seen the Trailer Park Boys you should try to d/l it. It's not for everyone, but i thinks it's hilarious
Trailerpark Boys should be everyone. I find it unbelievable no station in the U.S. shows atleast repeats. It's pure genius.
It's smart stupid comedy. Hopefully someone gets what I mean by that.
yes he is, along with the cast of Trailor Park Boys. And if you haven't seen that, d/l it! It's so terrible, it's good.
This info comes from thehip.com "The Darkest One" This song takes place in a seemingly mythical place past/present/future where.... Where you can do whatever you want and be whatever you want to be. Including the worst... Its a sorta darker charter of rights and freedoms.
Is that Don Cherry in the video?
Yeah, I thinks it's him<br />
"Gords gonna get us come chicken if we steal him a motor!" "How much chicken?" "ONE BUCKET!" One of my favourite Tragically Hip vidoes for sure, and a great tune.
this is my favorite song by the tragically hip and i just randomly downloaded it. I just recently bought the cd.
"where the wild are strong and the strong are the darkest ones" This is so true.