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 could bless the water, but it wouldn't turn to wine
Paint a picture of the sunset hangin' there in your eyes,
But it'd just be some compromise
I could write a million verses of words you've heard before,
Steal some of Dylan's best, but it'd leave me wanting to say more
'Cause there's so much more
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
Sometimes when I look back I don't even know myself
Blows my mind to think that I've found
Grace in someone else, baby your grace is somethin' else
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
For a man who's done nothin',
I've been blessed with so much more than I deserve
I'm smart enough to now that I've been handed somethin',
Can't put a price on what it's worth
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
Hope for me yet"
Paint a picture of the sunset hangin' there in your eyes,
But it'd just be some compromise
I could write a million verses of words you've heard before,
Steal some of Dylan's best, but it'd leave me wanting to say more
'Cause there's so much more
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
Sometimes when I look back I don't even know myself
Blows my mind to think that I've found
Grace in someone else, baby your grace is somethin' else
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
For a man who's done nothin',
I've been blessed with so much more than I deserve
I'm smart enough to now that I've been handed somethin',
Can't put a price on what it's worth
Baby if you could love someone like me,
There's no end to the possibilities
Hopes and dreams push away the pain and regret
But lovin' you just lets me know,
There might be hope for me yet
Hope for me yet"
Lyrics submitted by shyzerDOTcom
Hope for Me Yet Lyrics as written by Radney M. Foster Marc Broussard
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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