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"
I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love that's all around me
And so the feeling grows
It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show, oh
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the way that I feel
There's no beginning, there'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend
I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I do
You gave your promise to me and I gave mine to you
I need someone beside me in everything I do
Oh, yes I do
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the way that I feel
There's no beginning, there'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend
I gotta keep it moving
Ooh, it's written in the wind
Oh, everywhere I go, yeah, ooh yeah
So if you really love me, love me, love me
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show, baby
Come on and let it show
I feel it in my toes
Love that's all around me
And so the feeling grows
It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show, oh
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the way that I feel
There's no beginning, there'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend
I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I do
You gave your promise to me and I gave mine to you
I need someone beside me in everything I do
Oh, yes I do
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the way that I feel
There's no beginning, there'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend
I gotta keep it moving
Ooh, it's written in the wind
Oh, everywhere I go, yeah, ooh yeah
So if you really love me, love me, love me
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show, baby
Come on and let it show
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Reminds me of a simpler time in my life. Has a nice nostalgic feel and tone for me. Great Song!
I love this tune. It brings back such great memories of that summer.
Boyfriend tryin to coax his gal into his pants, yada yada, the chicks fall for it all the friggin time!
Deluded sucks. It's people like him that suck. Ya he just sucks. And your also sexist. You idiot face! I love the song though! Reminds me of camp
this is ost for 'four weddings and a funeral'. beautiful song, n yea jalco... it does hav a nostalgic feeling to it; it reminds you of a much simpler time in life :'(
I don't know how long ago, but it was probably around the time that the movie Four Weddings And A Funeral came out, but I decided long ago that this was going to be my wedding song. It's got a great mix of a little bit of everything in it.. A country-ish opening, a good rock backbone, and tender ballad lyrics. I count myself lucky that I didn't have to compromise, as my fiancée agreed to use it for our wedding song.