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"
We came, we came, we came again
To stem the tide and point the blame
Came back for more
Came back to see what you had in store
Everyone join the line, everyone
Yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Won't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody running high
The same, the same, the same again
To steal the time and haunt the graves
Just because it's there
Don't mean you see it anywhere
Maybe it's a trick of the light
Maybe, yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Don't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody come alive
Yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, bring 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Don't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody running high
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you say we haven't turned around?
So you say we haven't turned around?
Just everybody else is going wrong
Going wrong
To stem the tide and point the blame
Came back for more
Came back to see what you had in store
Everyone join the line, everyone
Yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Won't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody running high
The same, the same, the same again
To steal the time and haunt the graves
Just because it's there
Don't mean you see it anywhere
Maybe it's a trick of the light
Maybe, yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Don't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody come alive
Yeah
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, bring 'em down
So you want to make catastrophe?
Don't you send it right over to me
I got some time
Everybody running high
So you want to spin the world around?
So you want to spin the world around?
And anybody else, cut 'em down
So you say we haven't turned around?
So you say we haven't turned around?
Just everybody else is going wrong
Going wrong
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This song is one of the most calm and beautiful I've ever come across. Definitely one of my top favorite songs. I can't say enough about it. I recommend everyone listen to it at least once. You get taken away by the music...and his voice. Breath-taking! It's heaven...pure heaven.
Well put Kelly,his voice kinda relaxes you,really makes you feel like there are no worries in the world.
It is very peaceful and relaxing but he's trying to relay a message. Drug abuse.
either way, this song is awesome, i havent had enough time to think about what it means yet, so i might post about it later if i listen to it about another 20times. gomez is seriously awesome, i can post about almost all the songs.
yeah. the first ime i ever heard it, it made me stop what i was doing to just hear him sing. such a great song.
this is one of my most favourite songs...it is so beautiful. When liquid skin came out my best friend and i listened to this song everyday for atleast a year! The film clip is quite haunting and sad also. But on another topic, I can't believe the lack of comments for gomez songs. Whats wrong with the people on this site! Gomez is a fantastic band!!
ibelieve, I know! What's with that? But then, that's Gomez altogether - not that big in the US, popular initially in the UK but now largely ignored. They are pretty popular here (Australia) but still, nothing like the recognition they deserve. I think they are one of the best bands recording today.
yeah, there was a big fuss about them in like '98 over here (England) but they pretty much found their natural audience (which ain't huge), and everyone else abandoned them. this is probably my favourite Gomez song...mostly they're good for more uptempo, propulsive work but turned around shows they can do the balladry stuff as well as anyone.
Yeah, it is amazing gomez have never received the recognition they deserve. This is simply a beautiful song, on an awesome album! One of my favs of all time easily
i first heard it when i saw the clip. now i can't listen to it without thinking about the video for it. it sounds like its a scathing view of someone trying to take the world on their shoulders...