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"
Beautiful day
Watching you as you awake
Morning stars in your eyes
Your hand in mine
The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So don't think of yesterday
Its here and now
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
The beauty of you
Gives me my fortitude
Stronger than any dark cloud
Screaming out loud, hey, hey
The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So don't think of yesterday
Its here and now
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
Watching you as you awake
Morning stars in your eyes
Your hand in mine
The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So don't think of yesterday
Its here and now
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
The beauty of you
Gives me my fortitude
Stronger than any dark cloud
Screaming out loud, hey, hey
The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So don't think of yesterday
Its here and now
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
It's a, it's a, it's a new day
Lyrics submitted by sweetnlow866
New Day Lyrics as written by Kate Lush Carl Dimataga
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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