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"
Each time we have a quarrel, it almost breaks my heart,
Cause I'm so afraid that we will have to part,
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
One day I feel so happy, the next I feel so sad.
I guess I'll have to take the good with the bad.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
I cried a tear for nobody but you,
And I'll be the lonely one, if you should say we're through.
Well, if you want to make me cry, that won't be so hard to do.
And if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
Cause I'm so afraid that we will have to part,
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
One day I feel so happy, the next I feel so sad.
I guess I'll have to take the good with the bad.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
I cried a tear for nobody but you,
And I'll be the lonely one, if you should say we're through.
Well, if you want to make me cry, that won't be so hard to do.
And if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
Lyrics submitted by Stardust29
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Ah...a teenager in love. This is a good song because I can relate to it so well. If you can't relate to it you're not and never were a teenager.
And if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you
When you're a teenager in love (ha) you feel like your first love is your last and you'll never get over it. That's why this song is so great. It's honest and you don't know you can relate to it until you realize you can't relate to it anymore...that makes no sense but I think you get what I mean.
quite the brilliant song, captures all the feelings of being a teenager in love.
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the red hot chili peppers cover this too
i agree that this song is true about a teen in love oh well i like being a teen in love.
this song is talking about that u're in love and u're a teeanger , it makes me all happy :D
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ahhh, less than jake...i wen tout with this guy, that was a great guy, he treated me great and everything, but i broke up with him, because i thought it was just to good to last...thats always been my main problem...and it had been a couple of weeks or maybe even months and i put on this song, and i realized i was in love with him, when we were going out, and i had screwed it up...oh destroy my sweater...
this song sounds soo beautiful.i think everybody(especially teens) can relate to a song like this.at the same time it cna be depressi and also happy.=]
I love how this song can be happy or sad to different ppl, well I think it's just about a guy who likes a girl and he's very insecure