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"
It could've been her golden hair
That turned my head
I didn't look to stare
Like I was hypnotized
But I was fixed
On how she pointed slowly down
And low I sank
And still without a sound
The world was far away
And I was tricked
It could've been her silver skin
That drew me on
I didn't mean to spin
Like I was mesmerized
But I was rapt
Without a name or memory
I waited there
Too scared to even breathe?
She sang, she sang, she sang
[Chorus]
She sang
"Tell me you love me
And beg me to stay"
She sang
"Tell me you love me
Before it's too late"
She sang
"Give me your life
Or I must fly away
And you will never hear this song again"
It could've been her crystal eyes
That made me stop
I didn't want to sigh
Like I was stupefied
But I was thrown
And at that point of no return
My whole life hanging
On a single word
To be hers evermore
Or mine alone
She sang, she sang, she sang
[Chorus]
That turned my head
I didn't look to stare
Like I was hypnotized
But I was fixed
On how she pointed slowly down
And low I sank
And still without a sound
The world was far away
And I was tricked
It could've been her silver skin
That drew me on
I didn't mean to spin
Like I was mesmerized
But I was rapt
Without a name or memory
I waited there
Too scared to even breathe?
She sang, she sang, she sang
[Chorus]
She sang
"Tell me you love me
And beg me to stay"
She sang
"Tell me you love me
Before it's too late"
She sang
"Give me your life
Or I must fly away
And you will never hear this song again"
It could've been her crystal eyes
That made me stop
I didn't want to sigh
Like I was stupefied
But I was thrown
And at that point of no return
My whole life hanging
On a single word
To be hers evermore
Or mine alone
She sang, she sang, she sang
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by topside, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Sirensong Lyrics as written by Jason Toop Cooper Robert James Smith
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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"Give me your life Or I must fly away And you will never hear this song again" ..again...
That's the most delicious 4 bars of music I ever heard.
Particularly the way it so gracefully resolves as he sings "...again." Diving right back in without so much as a ripple.... it's gone as soon as it appears...
And then after it, you want to hear it again... and you wait for it... and it's coming... and it's coming... and then !!! AAAHHHHHWWWW!!!!!! It's not there this time!!! He ends it literally high and dry!!!
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@MurderRapeLove Hmm I think it's a bit of both mike, great song!
It's basically someone so wanting to be together and wishing the other one felt the same, but like many of his songs, he doesn't care and is stuck thinking: shall i lie and tell her will lvoe her forever? sometimes he gets in the game and deceives her, and sometimes shocks her as she's innocnet so he can get rid of her, sometimes wants perhaps to abuse her and in the end, he tells her to fuck off. If she dont' get the message that he basically either hates or despises her, which sounds like that to me, then wot?
this is my favorite off the 4:13 Dream album. just love the yearning feeling to it, just like the other songs such as Just Like Heaven, 2 Late and To The Sky... :)
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