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"
The days are endlessly dreary
The nights are painfully long
My pillow is drenched with tears
I know that I've done you wrong
(Chorus)One more second chance,
One more second try
Once more second hope,
to touch your heart and mind
one more second chance,
one more second try,
one more second hope
to treat you right this time.
Just give me one more second chance
Just give me one more second try
Just let me prove to you that I love you
I beg you, Baby, Don't make my cry.
(chorus)
One more chance to show you some tenderness
One more chance to show you my faithfulness
One more chance to hold and caress you
One more chance, (spoken) > I WON'T LAST WITHOUT YOU
The nights are painfully long
My pillow is drenched with tears
I know that I've done you wrong
(Chorus)One more second chance,
One more second try
Once more second hope,
to touch your heart and mind
one more second chance,
one more second try,
one more second hope
to treat you right this time.
Just give me one more second chance
Just give me one more second try
Just let me prove to you that I love you
I beg you, Baby, Don't make my cry.
(chorus)
One more chance to show you some tenderness
One more chance to show you my faithfulness
One more chance to hold and caress you
One more chance, (spoken) > I WON'T LAST WITHOUT YOU
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
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It says here your from Houston Certified to drive a truck It didn't say what you've been doing The last five years Then I watched his eyes keep readin Then I watched his eyes look up And I watched another job I needed dissappear Cause when you get to the line Have you've been convicted of a crime They say Thanks for comming in and they don't call you back Well, I aint asking for every job Under the sun I just want one, second chance
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