What does The Night We Met mean?

Lord Huron: The Night We Met Meaning

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Song Released: 2017


The Night We Met Lyrics

"The Night We Met"

I am not the only traveler
Who has not repaid his debt
I've been searching for a trail to follow again
Take me back to the night we met

And then I can tell myself
What the hell I'm supposed to do
And then I can tell...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jan 29th 2020 !⃝

    This song is absolutely about a relationship, but I also want to compare it to life choices in general.

    The traveler and the debt line reminds me of my dad insisting on covering my time at school. I feel like I haven't repaid my debt because I've done nothing worthwhile.

    I am a junior in college majoring in broadcast journalism. I made a huge mistake. I'm not capable of this career, or any career. I interpret "take me back to the night we met" as, I want to go back in time and tell myself not to be stupid.

    I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you reminds of getting rejected from everything I've applied for, and the "ghost" that haunts me is the naïve passion I once had.

  2. anonymous
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     Dec 3rd 2019 !⃝

    Personally, I thinks this song is about someone who is troubled falling in love with another person who is troubled. The first person has trouble expressing emotions and maybe hopped around leaving broken hearts behind. The second person may have depression. They wanted to fix each other. It worked for some time and Then second person started becoming more detached as the depression came back. The first person not knowing how to handle it let it happen slowly but surely. The second person kills themselves and the first person wishes they could go back and tell their past self never to let the drift away and to always be there.

  3. anonymous
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     Sep 11th 2019 !⃝

    I believe this song it's about a couple that lived along life together married or otherwise in love and the girl ended up getting sick deathly ill and he had to watch her waste away until there was none of her left and then he wants to go back the night they met in hopes that he would know something was wrong with her and perhaps maybe help her in some way or alter her course to prevent her death but he can't and that's the torture of it and that's what makes this song so incredibly sad I think it speaks to a lot of people they have lost a loved one or friend a mentor a spouse boyfriend a girlfriend or whatever lifelong companion that's someone comes across once in a lifetime and they're totally taken over and they can't help themselves so they fall completely for this individual and they end up getting hurt in the end because the person ends up either leaving or dying which is ultimately inevitable because it's a natural concept that everybody dies someday but the beauty of it is that we don't have to live by that if everybody stood around saying hey I don't want to get with someone because eventually they might die or I don't want to get married to someone because I don't want to have to lose them someday everybody in this world would be completely miserable because we all be walking around like zombies without anybody to turn to for any sort of support or fall back on for Love or affection it would be a very miserable existence or I don't want to become friends with this person because they have depression and they might kill themselves so all eventually have to speak to their funeral or bury them that's another bad message this song sons at least that's my interpretation of that it speaks to every person ultimately that is dealt with loss but it also dwells on it I don't recommend this song for anyone struggling with depression because it will actually send them deeper into it so I'm sorry if that offends anyone

  4. anonymous
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     Jun 15th 2019 !⃝

    I was married for 52 years and he died recently from the effects of Parkinson’s disease. I watched as this healthy beautiful man disappeared over a 10 year period. The wasting away of this amazing man....every time I hear the song and I play it every day I think back to the day we met and cry and wish I could go back there again. The lyrics can mean so much to so many people from so many situations. Thank you

  5. anonymous
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     Jun 6th 2019 !⃝

    This song is eerie and terrifying but it just draws you in and drowns you in its haunting beauty, like siren song. For me this song is about losing someone. Maybe It's about a two people who are in love or very close and they have all these amazing memories but one of them slowly begins to drift away or just fade into depression prompting the lyrics "I had all and then most of you. Some and now none of you" and it ends tragically with the friend ending their life or dying suddenly leaving the other hopeless and lost. This song feels like the other friend looking back on all of their memories together and they are tinged black because the other knows how it ends, all the friend wants to do is be able to go back and either stop the friendship/relationship from starting or trying to fix everything but they know they can't. This song speaks of loss, pain and regret. It is truly a hauntingly beautiful song that i've had on repeat for years.

  6. anonymous
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     Jun 1st 2019 !⃝

    To me this song perfectly describes the lose of someone to dementia or Alzheimer’s. I don’t think that was the intent but it’s there. I had all and then most describes the slow slipping away of the loved one and then add in the ‘haunted by the ghost of you’ meaning they are still there yet not. For me I can’t help but hear this every time I listen. If you’ve experienced this type of lose of a loved one it is very painful and haunting as is this song

  7. anonymous
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     Apr 22nd 2019 !⃝

    I wondered why this song made me cry every time I heard it...
    Then I realized
    I am this song.
    This song gives me comfort yet terror.I want to cry and laugh and have to listen to this work of art alone so nobody can see me shake. This song speaks to me so dearly because when I heard it at first I related to is so much because I was in such a dark place.cutting writs in secrecy and gorging on snacks because I new I was going to die anyways. I was only 11 and had been watching the TV show "13 reasons why" and heard it. It talked about this man walking at night and meeting this mysterious woman that he never sees again and wants to go back. I thought it was that. But it was so much more... Its about loneliness, grief, love,war,death and most of all pain. It tells about his thirst for companionship and happiness. This song got me through so much so PLEASE share it

    xo, anonymous

  8. anonymous
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     Nov 18th 2018 !⃝

    I know this is a super late response, but at first I thought it was about losing someone either through a break up or death and now it seems like a captive situation where the other person dies in terror and tears and the creepy stalker feels regrets about killing that person and wants to go back in time even though they are sick mentally on some level have feelings for this person

  9. anonymous
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     Oct 30th 2018 !⃝

    I think it's about a car crash (or similar accident) where this person loses not only his girlfriend but his buddies, too.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  10. anonymous
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     Oct 19th 2018 !⃝

    The Night We Met song, you will clearly know by listening or viewing the lyrics. I think you are crazy because why worry and think that it is a possibility? Aren't you being negative? You guys are already dating for three years and doing so good. You mentioned he is your best friend and you love him so much and I think he feels the same way too. So there's no problem! Don't overthink things and better not take this song seriously. Enjoy the melody. Relax okay.

    Night Viewer sometimes

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  11. anonymous
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     Oct 19th 2018 !⃝

    I am so drawn to this song, like it makes me so sad that I begin to cry. There are so many interpretations for this song. But me and my boyfriend have been dating for 3 years and we are doing so good. I think this song makes me sad because it gets me thinking. I don’t know what I’d do if I ever lost him. He has been my absolute best friend and I love him so much. It makes me think I could lose him at any time. That there’s always a possibility. And if that ever happened, I’d wish to go back to the very first night/ time we met. It makes me feel like I don’t ever want to take him for granted.Is that crazy or?

  12. anonymous
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     Sep 28th 2018 !⃝

    I've listened to it non-stop. I think it is someone who has been with someone for a long time and they lost them to depression. They just want to go back to when they first met. When they were young and had such good times together. You can't fix someone with depression, they have to be able to pull out of it. The person that stays by them suffers their own pain because they love that person so much, they are like a ghost to them because they remember them before the depression hit and if they are old school will remain with them until they die. Which can be years...because they LOVE that person.

  13. anonymous
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     Sep 14th 2018 !⃝

    Its all about losing someone.

    I let him go months before.And it was our song. I couldnt understand what is song about at first but now I can feel the song with all of my heart.

    I understand that sometimes you just miss memories not person. And now the night we met is just a memory for us. That s why it hurts me. Here is an advice for you dont share your favourite song with people can leave you one day..

  14. anonymous
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     Aug 31st 2018 !⃝

    This song means going back and changing regrets, mistakes. Trying to fix the damage that was done. righting our wrongs, even though you still want to hang on to the past.

    Something I think everyone can relate an experience to.

  15. anonymous
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     Aug 27th 2018 !⃝

    This song means a lot to me because my father died of cancer. " I had all, then most of you, some and now none of you" This line especially really got to me because I kind of lost him along the way, to the sickness, and then he actually died and I lost my everything.
    If I could only go back to the night we met, and have him in my life all over again.

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