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"
Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town
Doing anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again
And tryna forget you is just a waste of time
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado
Tryna keep up a smile that hides a tear
But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here
Baby come back, oh baby, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Now that I put it all together, oh
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart?
Nothing left for me? Ain't there nothing left for me?
Baby come back, oh darling, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, listen baby, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
I was wrong, and I just can't live
Doing anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again
And tryna forget you is just a waste of time
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado
Tryna keep up a smile that hides a tear
But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here
Baby come back, oh baby, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Now that I put it all together, oh
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart?
Nothing left for me? Ain't there nothing left for me?
Baby come back, oh darling, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, listen baby, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
I was wrong, and I just can't live
Lyrics submitted by craigbenji
Baby Come Back Lyrics as written by Peter Beckett John Crowley
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Bluewater Music Corp., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Feel free to add whatever I missed.
This guy is doing whatever he can to forget about her. He plays it off like a "Player" in the daytime, but when the nightime comes, he's reminded of her. He's begging her to come back. Whatever he did, he knows he fucked up, and now he will spend the rest of his life in a lonely, agonizing torture. bummer
The Fact that the song ends on the words "I just can't live" always made me imagine this as a happy song with a dark twist at the end regarding suicide... It isn't the intention of the singer to give this twist but I like to imagine it
yeah, finally someone contributed this lyric, yeap, its totally about asking for forgiveness,and really wanting her back
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But for some reason, I still like it though....
Of deepest emotion in the song, Baby Come Back.
I work with a girl, let's call her "Jen"....... this is most favorite song in the ENTIRE world........... I also work with this other jerk, let's call him "Brian".... he keeps playing it ..... over and over....... and over .... very annoying.
The End.
It's CLEAR to me that he cheated on her, and he's paying the price. "You can blame it all on me" -- he's outright admitting to it. Also, "But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again" tell us that he continues to do so, even when he knows he's wrong. I don't know why Jen likes this song as it exemplifies what is wrong with the world.
Because she's fascinated with it... she thinks this idiot "Brian" doesn't know.... but sometimes, when "Brian" walks in... he catches her listening to it alone..... it's really kind of creepy. It gets in the blood...... this song is pure evil....... it's one of those songs that would be playing the back ground of some slasher movie as he's axing everybody up........ only a deranged person would like this song.