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"
Please don't ask me why
But true as the sky
Everyone is born to die
So take your time but don't take mine
Lose yourself but don't lose your mind
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
You can't regret what you forget
If only you could forget it
But it takes time and plenty of wine
The weight of the world there in your eyes
And nothing good will ever come to you unless you try try try
You find yourself in trouble if you cannot tell a lie
It's easy as pie
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
But true as the sky
Everyone is born to die
So take your time but don't take mine
Lose yourself but don't lose your mind
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
You can't regret what you forget
If only you could forget it
But it takes time and plenty of wine
The weight of the world there in your eyes
And nothing good will ever come to you unless you try try try
You find yourself in trouble if you cannot tell a lie
It's easy as pie
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
Somewhere out there in between
The moon and the sea
I'll be waiting for you my dear
Just wait and see
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Wait for Me Lyrics as written by Sean Ono Lennon
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I like this song very much. This is a rather morbid song, though, in the beginning, at least. True, but morbid.
"Please don't ask me why True as a sky everyone is born to die" I think it means simply that he doesn't know why people die, but they do, and it's unavoidable. "So take your time but don't take mine lose yourself but don't lose your mind" Maybe it's because John was shot, but when I heard this line, I thought of murder. "Take your time," like he's saying to live your life as best you can. "but don't take mine," because no one deserves to have their life cut short like that, especially if someone just kind of decides to kill. "lose yourself, but don't lose your mind," to me, kind of means to let your mind wander, but don't let it wander too far, or it won't find it's way back.
"you can't regret what you forget if only you could forget it" I think that kind of means that there's no reason to forgive if you can forget, which is almost exactly how the line is written, so I think that's pretty literal.
"somewhere out there inbetween the moon and the sea I'll be waiting for you, my dear, so wait for me" Somewhere between the moon and the sea, it sounds like a spiritual/magical kind of scene, so I can only assume by this he means something along the lines of eternity, since the first line of the song is about death. Also, with the second half of the verse, he seems kind of scared to go it alone. Being someone who is absolutely terrified of being alone, I understand this. He would wait for his 'dear,' so he wants to be sure that she would wait for him, too.