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"
Cold
Cold water
Surrounds me now
And all
I've got
Is your hand
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Or am I lost?
Loved
One's daughter
Allow me that
And I can't
Let go
Of your hand
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Or am I lost?
(Uh, I love you
Don't you know I love you?
And I always have
Hallelujah
Will you come with me?)
Cold
Cold water
Surrounds me now
And all (cold)
I've got (cold water)
Is your hand (surrounds me now)
Lord
(Can you hear me?)
Lord
(Can you hear me now?)
Lord
(Can you hear me?)
Lord
(can you hear me now?)
Lost
Am I lost with you?
Lost
Am I lost without you? (am I lost?)
Lost
Am I lost without you? (am I lost?)
Lost
Am I lost with you?
Cold water
Surrounds me now
And all
I've got
Is your hand
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Or am I lost?
Loved
One's daughter
Allow me that
And I can't
Let go
Of your hand
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Or am I lost?
(Uh, I love you
Don't you know I love you?
And I always have
Hallelujah
Will you come with me?)
Cold
Cold water
Surrounds me now
And all (cold)
I've got (cold water)
Is your hand (surrounds me now)
Lord
(Can you hear me?)
Lord
(Can you hear me now?)
Lord
(Can you hear me?)
Lord
(can you hear me now?)
Lost
Am I lost with you?
Lost
Am I lost without you? (am I lost?)
Lost
Am I lost without you? (am I lost?)
Lost
Am I lost with you?
Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry
Cold Water Lyrics as written by Damien George Rice
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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