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"
HEADLESS HORSEMAN
It was a hard blow that put me on the ground but my grandma said “If she swings again you’ll duck” so I can see through me and wish you luck. You deserve yourself and I’ll be back, uselessly vengeful and seeing clear the width of our loss, and I’ll keep seeing clear when I clip my claws. I’ll see clear to what we never saw.
It was a hard blow that put me on the ground but my grandma said “If she swings again you’ll duck” so I can see through me and wish you luck. You deserve yourself and I’ll be back, uselessly vengeful and seeing clear the width of our loss, and I’ll keep seeing clear when I clip my claws. I’ll see clear to what we never saw.
Lyrics submitted by horsepowerhope, edited by kneejerkreactionary, itsmecaitlind
Headless Horseman Lyrics as written by Phillip Whitman Elverum
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB.
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its "my soft hands replaced by claws", not "i solve tens replaced by clust" what the hell does that mean?
Taking this song at face value, it's very interesting. it makes you think of how the headless horseman spends his time. A man being turned into a stray dog, looking for himself after dying. What would the headless horseman do while there is nothing to chase after? How would he feel after turning into this ghost?
i think it's closer to what sethbrown was saying. Only elvrum didn't become a jerk. This song is localized to that moment during a breakup before you even know that's what's happening. He's full of anger that he can't help but lash out (You deserve yourself), and intense, unresolved solipsism.
This is the story of a Hessian soldier whose head was blown off by a canon in the American Revolutionary War.
im hardly believing that no one has commented on this song! Its Elvrum at his best..its so beautiful. The Glow Pt II is truly a gem.
it's about a guy who's been dumped and starts acting like a jerk. a lot of us have been there.
This song is amazing, Floyd-Eye sounds about right.. what to do after death.
i was listening to this song a few nights ago and for some reason it occurred to me that this song might have something to do with the complete loss of innocence. i feel like this is one of those "morning after" songs. so beautiful
this song is too much for me. its too much of a goodbye all too familiar.
the microphones are truly amazing, whenever i listen to them i want to be inside of the music. it moves me.