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 get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but
Sittin' here with my tears
All alone with my fears
I'm wonderin' if I have to do without you
But there's no reason why
I fell asleep late last night
Cryin' like a newborn child
Holdin' myself close
Pretendin' my arms are yours
I want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but
I still remember to the day
In fact is was a third Monday
You came along to be the one for me
and now I'm alone
I'm sittin' here by the phone
Call and say that you're okay
So that I'll have the chance to beg you to stay
I want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (I get, I get)
Can't let just anybody hold me (can't let)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
I want no one but you
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (I can't believe)
That lives in me, my dear (that you and me are no longer)
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, babe, ooh)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (you are the love)
That lives in me, my dear (that lives in me, baby)
Want no one but-
Gonna break it down, break it down, break it down
Gonna break it down, break it down, break it down
Ooh
You know that I know
That I get so lonely thinking of you
Ooh-hoo
No, whoa, ohh, no
I get so lonely (I get lonely when I hear your name)
Can't let just anybody hold me (I get lonely when I see your face)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (get lonely when I hear your name)
Can't let just anybody hold me (I get lonely when I see your face)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you (I don't want no one else but you)
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (you are the love)
That lives in me, my dear (that lives in me, baby)
Want no one but you (ooh, ohh)
I get so lonely (every time I hear your name, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I see you face)
You are the one (I can't believe)
That lives in me, my dear (that you and me are no longer)
Want no one but you
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but
Sittin' here with my tears
All alone with my fears
I'm wonderin' if I have to do without you
But there's no reason why
I fell asleep late last night
Cryin' like a newborn child
Holdin' myself close
Pretendin' my arms are yours
I want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but
I still remember to the day
In fact is was a third Monday
You came along to be the one for me
and now I'm alone
I'm sittin' here by the phone
Call and say that you're okay
So that I'll have the chance to beg you to stay
I want no one but you
I get so lonely
Can't let just anybody hold me
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (I get, I get)
Can't let just anybody hold me (can't let)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
I want no one but you
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (I can't believe)
That lives in me, my dear (that you and me are no longer)
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, babe, ooh)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (you are the love)
That lives in me, my dear (that lives in me, baby)
Want no one but-
Gonna break it down, break it down, break it down
Gonna break it down, break it down, break it down
Ooh
You know that I know
That I get so lonely thinking of you
Ooh-hoo
No, whoa, ohh, no
I get so lonely (I get lonely when I hear your name)
Can't let just anybody hold me (I get lonely when I see your face)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you
I get so lonely (get lonely when I hear your name)
Can't let just anybody hold me (I get lonely when I see your face)
You are the one that lives in me, my dear
Want no one but you (I don't want no one else but you)
I get so lonely (every time I see your face, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I hear your name)
You are the one (you are the love)
That lives in me, my dear (that lives in me, baby)
Want no one but you (ooh, ohh)
I get so lonely (every time I hear your name, baby)
Can't let just anybody hold me (every time I see you face)
You are the one (I can't believe)
That lives in me, my dear (that you and me are no longer)
Want no one but you
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