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"
You struck right out of the blue
And turned my head around
And what's a girl to do?
Oh-whoa, oh-oh-whoa
A simple twist of fate
Now there ain't no turning back (no)
Sunshine or the pouring rain
Oh-whoa, oh-oh-whoa
I'm not the gambling type out looking for a rush
The one thing I'll always do, I'll put my money on your love
Baby, you
You hung the moon and stars that night for me
And I knew right then and there
For you
I'd take a leap of faith 'cause I believe, oh yeah (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I believe (ooh, ooh, ooh), oh yeah (ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
I don't know what you've been told
'Bout the things you're doing to me (things you're doing to me)
I can't lie, I was on cloud nine
But it just wasn't enough for me (hey, ooh)
Girl, you take me higher (high)
So high I can't come down
Ooh, I pray for you (hey)
Now I know what I can and can't live without
Sing it, baby
I'm not the gambling type out looking for a rush (looking for a rush, too, baby)
One thing I'll always do, I'll put my money on your love
'Cause, honey, you
You hung the moon and stars that night for me (hey, when did you know it, babe?)
And I knew right then and there (said I knew right then and there, too)
For you
I'd take a leap of faith 'cause I believe, oh yeah (oh yeah)
I believe, oh yeah (oh yeah)
I believe (I believe, oh, oh, oh-oh)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (I knew)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (oh baby)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (I knew right then)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (baby, baby, baby, baby)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
And turned my head around
And what's a girl to do?
Oh-whoa, oh-oh-whoa
A simple twist of fate
Now there ain't no turning back (no)
Sunshine or the pouring rain
Oh-whoa, oh-oh-whoa
I'm not the gambling type out looking for a rush
The one thing I'll always do, I'll put my money on your love
Baby, you
You hung the moon and stars that night for me
And I knew right then and there
For you
I'd take a leap of faith 'cause I believe, oh yeah (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I believe (ooh, ooh, ooh), oh yeah (ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
I don't know what you've been told
'Bout the things you're doing to me (things you're doing to me)
I can't lie, I was on cloud nine
But it just wasn't enough for me (hey, ooh)
Girl, you take me higher (high)
So high I can't come down
Ooh, I pray for you (hey)
Now I know what I can and can't live without
Sing it, baby
I'm not the gambling type out looking for a rush (looking for a rush, too, baby)
One thing I'll always do, I'll put my money on your love
'Cause, honey, you
You hung the moon and stars that night for me (hey, when did you know it, babe?)
And I knew right then and there (said I knew right then and there, too)
For you
I'd take a leap of faith 'cause I believe, oh yeah (oh yeah)
I believe, oh yeah (oh yeah)
I believe (I believe, oh, oh, oh-oh)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (I knew)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (oh baby)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (I knew right then)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there (baby, baby, baby, baby)
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
I knew right then and there
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
I Believe Lyrics as written by Jesse Singer Chris Ryan Soper
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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