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"
Shining like a work of art
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Elevator to the moon
Whistling our favorite tune
Trying to get a closer view
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Maybe you will always be
Just a little out of reach
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
You're my satellite
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Elevator to the moon
Whistling our favorite tune
Trying to get a closer view
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Maybe you will always be
Just a little out of reach
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
You're my satellite
Lyrics submitted by DAngerer87, edited by Taspen
Satellite [The Astronauts Remix] Lyrics as written by Ryan M. Miller Adam S. Gardner
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I agree about the "it's about a girl he likes but can't have" think, but the title lyric has a bit more meaning for me. I don't think about it like a heavenly body, but as a man-made satellite around the earth.
I can't be the only one who, when stargazing, was disappointed to find out that the brightest stars were satellites. I always felt like they were imposters who managed to be more brilliant than the genuine thing. I feel like it's very much like a line from a different song, "We know who we should love, but we're never certain."
Much like satellites, he is attracted to this girl he isn't supposed to be. (Your favorite star CAN'T be a satellite, it loses the romance of stargazing) The same way, she's someone in his life that he isn't SUPPOSED to love, someone that others would see as an 'imposter,' like a friend's girlfriend/sister, a teacher, someone much older/younger, etc. This also could be taken as a homosexual reference (The one he loves the most is a boy amongst the girls that he is SUPPOSED to like) but that may be taking it too far.
I hope I gave someone food for thought!
I think you're right but I still think it's more than that. I think it's about finding someone who you think is perfect and everything you've ever looked for, and then not being able to have that for some reason or another. And maybe it's better that way, because then they'll always be on that perfect pedestal and you'll always have something to reach after. But who knows. It's kind of a bittersweet song, except upbeat and amazing.
I sing it to my son as a lullaby. Except we change the out of reach bit to Maybe you will always be, just a little bit like me. He will orbit me for a little while! ;)
I believe it's actually "Whistling our favorite tune" not "Just a little favorite tune"
Im pretty sure that you are right
I think that you have the right idea, but you aren't quite right.
I agree that "you" is a girl who is unattainable, but I don't think she actually exists. I think that she is just the image of a "perfect" girl (shining like a work of art?) who the singer always feels like he almost sees in many girls, but she only exists in the sky.
He is always "trying to get a closer view" and finding out if she is "who I think you are" but she is always out of reach.
I love this song so much. I grew up with guster and never before have i connected with a song so much. I mean i think we all can relate that theres a dream girl out there that is as close as perfection that we can ever reach... yet she is always a little bit out of reach.
I lost my virginity to this song
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Brilliant song. Brilliant lyrics. Can't get enough of it.
First time I heard this was on Pandora, with exactly the girl I thought the song described. We've been together, but I can never really get to her. We separate, see other people, then she just keeps popping up, and it seems so perfect at the time that I can't figure out why we're not just always together. I truly can't figure out what's really in her head. And maybe it's better that way.
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