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"
You say that Gainesville's got no soul
Well that sounds like a good excuse for coming home
And this Tallahassee skyline that keeps singing out a song
And now it's your song they've been singing all night long
And this Tallahassee rooftop just keeps calling out your name
To come and sing
So stay
So stay
So stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stay
And then I'll say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you, to stay
I poured through every song I wrote
Every line that I've cried every note that was split with this pen
And every line in every song, they all seemed to come out wrong,
Until
Your song
So lets sing it all night long
And this Tallahassee skyline hasn't changed
While the view from every rooftop says to stay
So stay
Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
Ill sing you every song I know if it will make you to stay
That I missed you and these words
They'll convince you
And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say, "I missed you boy"
Now sing it over again, and over again, and over again (x3)
Still you'd say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you
And I'm hoping as I kiss you
[Repeat x2]
And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say, "I missed you boy"
So sing it over again, and over again, and over again
Well that sounds like a good excuse for coming home
And this Tallahassee skyline that keeps singing out a song
And now it's your song they've been singing all night long
And this Tallahassee rooftop just keeps calling out your name
To come and sing
So stay
So stay
So stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stay
And then I'll say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you, to stay
I poured through every song I wrote
Every line that I've cried every note that was split with this pen
And every line in every song, they all seemed to come out wrong,
Until
Your song
So lets sing it all night long
And this Tallahassee skyline hasn't changed
While the view from every rooftop says to stay
So stay
Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
Ill sing you every song I know if it will make you to stay
That I missed you and these words
They'll convince you
And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say, "I missed you boy"
Now sing it over again, and over again, and over again (x3)
Still you'd say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you
And I'm hoping as I kiss you
[Repeat x2]
And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say, "I missed you boy"
So sing it over again, and over again, and over again
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208, edited by ngctl
Your Song Lyrics as written by Brooks Patrick Betts Alexander Antonio Garcia
Lyrics © THE TALLAHASSEE SKYLINE PUBLISHING, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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To me, this song seems like he had a girlfriend that went away to Gainseville, but is coming back to visit tallahasse, and he is so happy to see her. She is just visiting , but he wants her to stay. he is basically saying that the "Galley Alley rooftop just keeps calling out your name to come and stay" she belongs to this town, that its practically singing out a song for her to stay.
He is trying to convince her to stay, and enjoy the city sights, the sunset the stars! Anything to keep her by his side. He tried so hard to write her a song that will convince her to stay. And if she does stay, they can call eachother cute nicknames "babydoll" and they will live happily ever after..
BUT! this actually doesnt happen. Its only what he desires, and he wrote this song in an attempt to keep her in tallahassee. :)