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"
Long is the trail of the day
Into the lap of the evening dusk
Sweet is the hour of sleep
For I am weary of sorrow and pain
Into the tender night, I now lapse
Into the slumber, so sound and deep
Arching over the ravines of time
Bridge into the shrouded land
(For) For you left before me
(My) My pale morning star
(Now) Now you walk in undying light
(And I'm) I'm still chained in this rimed soil
When twilight reaves my senses
The heavenly ones will linger here
Right here by my feverish side
The ghosts of those I loved
Gone is the cruelest longing now
Undone, this grief of mine
(For) For you left before me
(My) My pale morning star
(Now) Now you walk in undying light
(And I'm) I'm still chained in this rimed soil
And still I can sense you
Still I can hear your voice
Still I quiver under your touch
Celestial shine in your hair
Empyreal crown upon your brow
Radiance blurs my deary eyes
Broken is the sphere of the body
As the spirit will ascend
Broken is the sphere of the body
As the spirit will ascend
Over the infinite boundaries
Over the gulches of death
Once you carried me
From the night into the sun
And now I follow your steps
Into the unseen land
Sore are these weary eyes
When I pass into the light
Blinding the eternal glow
After the long path in the dark
Wide awake amidst the dream
I stand by your side
I tremble before your gleam
My pale morning star
I stand by your side
My pale morning star
Into the lap of the evening dusk
Sweet is the hour of sleep
For I am weary of sorrow and pain
Into the tender night, I now lapse
Into the slumber, so sound and deep
Arching over the ravines of time
Bridge into the shrouded land
(For) For you left before me
(My) My pale morning star
(Now) Now you walk in undying light
(And I'm) I'm still chained in this rimed soil
When twilight reaves my senses
The heavenly ones will linger here
Right here by my feverish side
The ghosts of those I loved
Gone is the cruelest longing now
Undone, this grief of mine
(For) For you left before me
(My) My pale morning star
(Now) Now you walk in undying light
(And I'm) I'm still chained in this rimed soil
And still I can sense you
Still I can hear your voice
Still I quiver under your touch
Celestial shine in your hair
Empyreal crown upon your brow
Radiance blurs my deary eyes
Broken is the sphere of the body
As the spirit will ascend
Broken is the sphere of the body
As the spirit will ascend
Over the infinite boundaries
Over the gulches of death
Once you carried me
From the night into the sun
And now I follow your steps
Into the unseen land
Sore are these weary eyes
When I pass into the light
Blinding the eternal glow
After the long path in the dark
Wide awake amidst the dream
I stand by your side
I tremble before your gleam
My pale morning star
I stand by your side
My pale morning star
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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