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"
There I go, there I go, there I go, there I go
Pretty baby you are the soul, snaps my control
Such a funny thing but every time you're near me
I never can behave
You give me a smile and then I'm wrapped up in your magic
There's music all around me
Crazy music, music that keeps calling me so
Very close to you, turns me your slave
Come with me, any little thing you want to
Anything, baby just let me get next to you
So am I insane or do I really see heaven in your eyes?
Bright as stars that shine up above you
In the clear blue skies, how I worry 'bout you
Just can't live my life without you
Baby come here, don't have no fear
Oh, is there wonder why
I'm really feelin' in the mood for love?
So tell me why, stop to think about this weather, my dear
This little dream might fade away
There I go talking out of my head again, baby won't you
Come and put our two hearts together?
That would make me strong and brave
Oh, when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
Now if there's a cloud up above us
Come on and let it rain
I'm sure our love together would endure a hurricane
Ooh my baby won't you please let me love you
And give a relief from this awful misery?
What is all this talk about loving me, my sweet?
I am not afraid, not anymore, not like before
Can't you understand me? Now baby please
Pull yourself together, do it soon
My soul's on fire, come on and take me
I'll be what you make me, my darling, my sweet
Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Let me take you by the hand
Come let me visit out there
In that new promised land
Maybe there we can find
A good place to use a lovin' state of mind
I'm so tired of being without it
And never known what love's about
Vince Henry, you can come on in man here
You can blow now if you want to, I'm through
Pretty baby you are the soul, snaps my control
Such a funny thing but every time you're near me
I never can behave
You give me a smile and then I'm wrapped up in your magic
There's music all around me
Crazy music, music that keeps calling me so
Very close to you, turns me your slave
Come with me, any little thing you want to
Anything, baby just let me get next to you
So am I insane or do I really see heaven in your eyes?
Bright as stars that shine up above you
In the clear blue skies, how I worry 'bout you
Just can't live my life without you
Baby come here, don't have no fear
Oh, is there wonder why
I'm really feelin' in the mood for love?
So tell me why, stop to think about this weather, my dear
This little dream might fade away
There I go talking out of my head again, baby won't you
Come and put our two hearts together?
That would make me strong and brave
Oh, when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
Now if there's a cloud up above us
Come on and let it rain
I'm sure our love together would endure a hurricane
Ooh my baby won't you please let me love you
And give a relief from this awful misery?
What is all this talk about loving me, my sweet?
I am not afraid, not anymore, not like before
Can't you understand me? Now baby please
Pull yourself together, do it soon
My soul's on fire, come on and take me
I'll be what you make me, my darling, my sweet
Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Let me take you by the hand
Come let me visit out there
In that new promised land
Maybe there we can find
A good place to use a lovin' state of mind
I'm so tired of being without it
And never known what love's about
Vince Henry, you can come on in man here
You can blow now if you want to, I'm through
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in this song her voice is so jazzy and her singing so stylish & exquisite. I like the part You give me a smile and I'm wrapped up in your magic There´s music all around me Crazy music, music that keeps calling me so Baby close to you, turns me into your slave Come on and do with me any little thing that you want to Anything, baby just let me get next to you she sings soooo good here the meaning of the song is pretty obvious ;)
this song hits home. i think it means when the season seems to align with all the feelings yur feeling. evrything is pointing towards the fact that the one yur in love with right now is the right one for yu.she really loves the guy.
The guy is obviously over analysing their situation. He's thinking too much about what if it goes wrong hence the lines "So tell me why, stop to think about this weather, my dear" and "Oh, when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid If there's a cloud up above us Go on and let in rain I'm sure our love together would endure a hurricane Oh my baby won't you please let me love you and get a release from this awful misery". She's so sure he's the one and if it all falls apart, so what, they gave it a chance. She doesn't want to spend the rest of her life asking what if? I know exactly how she feels!!