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"
Drought's been hard, and
the cows are all slaughtered
But my love for you
needs no water
You miss your youth, and
You miss the city
Have no regret
Have no pity
Smoke blows thick, and
turns midday to midnight
But my love for you
needs no sunlight
Don't be saddened
Just look around, love
All things shining,
All things shining
the cows are all slaughtered
But my love for you
needs no water
You miss your youth, and
You miss the city
Have no regret
Have no pity
Smoke blows thick, and
turns midday to midnight
But my love for you
needs no sunlight
Don't be saddened
Just look around, love
All things shining,
All things shining
Lyrics submitted by random_monkey
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I love this.. when the tempo and tune changes at 1:52, it makes me feel nostalgic for whatever reason.
this song makes me want to dance kindove reminds me of being in the womb. if that makes sense...? i agree a with dawson :)
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"My love for you needs no water" - when you look at it, it's actually quite an absurd line. Everybody needs water to live; it's stupid to pretend that love can magically provide the essentials of life for you. How can all things shine when smoke and pollution have turned midday to midnight?