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"
Mysterious, blown in with the night
All this beauty captured in a frame
Visibly shaken, but never stirred
Drives them insane
I see the way she plays her men
And I know I've got to know her name
She's so beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
I see the way she cast her spell
It's like drowning in moonlight
Discards them she's done
They're lost in her twilight
I watch her move from star to star
And I wonder why, why it feels so right
She's so beautifully broken
You can barely see the flaw
Especially from a distance
Which is always how I fall
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that never learned to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I can break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that don't know how to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I could break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
Here I go again
All this beauty captured in a frame
Visibly shaken, but never stirred
Drives them insane
I see the way she plays her men
And I know I've got to know her name
She's so beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
I see the way she cast her spell
It's like drowning in moonlight
Discards them she's done
They're lost in her twilight
I watch her move from star to star
And I wonder why, why it feels so right
She's so beautifully broken
You can barely see the flaw
Especially from a distance
Which is always how I fall
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that never learned to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I can break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that don't know how to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I could break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
Here I go again
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Sorry but the above lyrics are incorrect. The lyrics below are correct from one of Warren Haynes' or Gov't Mule's web sites.
Beautifully Broken by Warren Haynes & Danny Louis
Mysterious, blown in with the night All this beauty captured in a frame Visibly shaken, but never stirred Drives them insane I see the way she plays her men And I know I've got to know her name
She's so beautifully broken Shaped by the wind Dangerously twisted Here I go again
I see the way she cast her spell It's like drowning in moonlight Discards them she's done They're lost in her twilight I watch her move from star to star And I wonder why, why it feels so right
She's so beautifully broken You can barely see the flaw Especially from a distance Which is always how I fall
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones? The ones that never learned to let go And why do I lie to myself And pretend that I can break her When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones? The ones that don't know how to let go And why do I lie to myself And pretend that I could break her When she's already been so
Beautifully broken Shaped by the wind Dangerously twisted Here I go again Here I go again
My name is Sunshine Powers and this is from my blog: Diaries of a Tenderloin Princess diariesoftenderloinprincess.com
Thursday, August 23, 2012 Blog 89: I am Beautifully Broken (Love Tales Part VI)
Love Tales Parts I-V are blogs 10, 17, 35, 47
THis is from my Blog: Diaries of a Tenderloin Princess
By.Sunshine Powers
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Blog 89: I am Beautifully Broken (Love Tales Part VI)
Love Tales Parts I-V are blogs 10, 17, 35, 47