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"
Hold my hand, feel the touch of your body cling to mine
You and me, makin' love all the way through another night
I remember you and I walkin' through the park at night
Kiss and touch, nothin' much
Let it blow, just touch and go
Love me more, never leave me alone by house of love
People talk, people say what we have is just a game
Ooh, I'll never let you go
Come here, girl
Just got to make sweet love 'til the break of dawn
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (ooh, break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gonna do, I can't stop lovin' you (no, no, it's the break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (ooh)
Hold my hand, feel the sweat
Yes, you've got me nervous yet
Let me groove, let me soothe
Let me take you on a cruise
There's imagination, I bet you've never been there before
Have you ever wanted to dream about those places you've never known?
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) there's no sun up in the sky
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) I can see it in your eyes
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) girl, you got to understand
It's the way that I love you
Let me show you I'm your man
Break of dawn
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (no)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (it's the break of dawn)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't want, no, it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (oh, it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (oh)
Let's not wait, the sun is out
Let's get up and let's get out
It's the day, a brand new day
Let's both go outside and play
Let us walk down the park, makin' love 'til it's dark
Let me move ya, let me soothe ya
'Til the break of dawn
And you know it's true, oh
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (I don't know, I don't know, oh)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (I don't want, oh, oh)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't know, I don't know, no, no, no, no)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (no, no, no, it's the break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (oh, oh)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't want, I don't want, it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's magic, is, is dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (I don't know, I don't know, break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love
Break of dawn
You and me, makin' love all the way through another night
I remember you and I walkin' through the park at night
Kiss and touch, nothin' much
Let it blow, just touch and go
Love me more, never leave me alone by house of love
People talk, people say what we have is just a game
Ooh, I'll never let you go
Come here, girl
Just got to make sweet love 'til the break of dawn
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (ooh, break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gonna do, I can't stop lovin' you (no, no, it's the break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (ooh)
Hold my hand, feel the sweat
Yes, you've got me nervous yet
Let me groove, let me soothe
Let me take you on a cruise
There's imagination, I bet you've never been there before
Have you ever wanted to dream about those places you've never known?
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) there's no sun up in the sky
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) I can see it in your eyes
(Break of dawn, break of dawn) girl, you got to understand
It's the way that I love you
Let me show you I'm your man
Break of dawn
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (no)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (it's the break of dawn)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't want, no, it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (oh, it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (oh)
Let's not wait, the sun is out
Let's get up and let's get out
It's the day, a brand new day
Let's both go outside and play
Let us walk down the park, makin' love 'til it's dark
Let me move ya, let me soothe ya
'Til the break of dawn
And you know it's true, oh
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (I don't know, I don't know, oh)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (I don't want, oh, oh)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't know, I don't know, no, no, no, no)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's the break of dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (no, no, no, it's the break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love (oh, oh)
I don't want the sun to shine, I wanna make love (I don't want, I don't want, it's the break of dawn)
Just this magic in your eyes and in my heart (it's magic, is, is dawn)
I don't know what I'm gon' do, I can't stop lovin' you (I don't know, I don't know, break of dawn)
I won't stop 'til break of dawn makin' love
Break of dawn
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