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"
Make a wish tonight
Take me back to the nights of last summer
I come by 'round 9
I couldn't help but wonder
What's wrong, what's right?
You're falling hard, and you're taking me under
Baby, it's our time
And baby, it's our time
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky,
She'll come flyin' back to me.
When you walk right by,
You're falling hard, and you're takin' me under.
I can't help but try
Things I miss keep haunting my mind.
Give me one more sign
And give me one more sign
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky,
She'll come flyin' back to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give a sign,
I swear I'm gonna make it up to you.
Just one more night,
There's some things I just got to do.
Give a sign
I swear I'm gonna make it up to you
And in watching all the things you do
There's something that slips through to you
Watching all the things you do
There's something that slips through
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky
She'll come flyin' back to me
Things I'll miss aren't comin back
Somethings I just cannot change
So let it go, make it happen.
The things I miss aren't coming back
There's some things that just cannot stay
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
Let it go
Take me back to the nights of last summer
I come by 'round 9
I couldn't help but wonder
What's wrong, what's right?
You're falling hard, and you're taking me under
Baby, it's our time
And baby, it's our time
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky,
She'll come flyin' back to me.
When you walk right by,
You're falling hard, and you're takin' me under.
I can't help but try
Things I miss keep haunting my mind.
Give me one more sign
And give me one more sign
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky,
She'll come flyin' back to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give a sign,
I swear I'm gonna make it up to you.
Just one more night,
There's some things I just got to do.
Give a sign
I swear I'm gonna make it up to you
And in watching all the things you do
There's something that slips through to you
Watching all the things you do
There's something that slips through
I know they always say,
True love's gotta set her free.
And maybe I'll get lucky
She'll come flyin' back to me
Things I'll miss aren't comin back
Somethings I just cannot change
So let it go, make it happen.
The things I miss aren't coming back
There's some things that just cannot stay
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
Let it go
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ooh! thanks for putting this lyric here. :D i've been looking for it, all over, and i couldn't find it. :} this music is way too perfect. :D
Things I ask keep haunting my mind.
I think it should say "things I miss"
other than that this song is really good and it sounds so nice
this song makes me like chocolate fondue!!
i dont exactly know what this song means, but if i hunch that it means that this guy loves this girl so much and he doesnt want to leave her but they need to. i dont know why they have to part but thats what i got.
Happy Valentines Day Loves!
I think it's supposed to be
"take me back to the days of last summer"
not nights
besides that, I love this song
One of my friends is the bassist for HP, and there's a lyric error. It should be take me back to the DAYS of last summer....
and the song is about a guy who wants to go back to the year before when him and a girl were together because he did something to mess up their relationship...hence the reason he wants to make it up to her and he's hoping she'll come back
Well. TimesRChangin. You're right. Andd say hi to the bassist!
=] beatiful. my favorite holiday parade song.
"I know they always say, True love's gotta set her free." not gonna lie, best line in any song ever.
this song make me get a feeling no other song can make me feel.
true loves gotta set her free
this song is beautiful i think its about a guy who messed up his relationship with this girl and he realy wants her back, he wants to make it up to her and tell her how much he realy does love her, and he wants to make it work this time he is hoping that she stilll loves him and she will come back to him, even if people tell him its not worth it, he needs to let go, he doesnt want to he is still holding on to that last bit of hope, its the only thing he has left.
well thats what i think atleast, hope dies last(:
"take me back to the days of last summer" i think this is referring to the past relationship they had together.
"you're falling hard and your taking me under" i think this means that she is beginning to fall for someone (or him?) while he is realizing that he is falling for her.
"and maybe i'll get lucky, she'll come flyin back to me" again, i think this is referrring to a past relationship, where he just wants them to be together again.
"i'm gonna make it up to you" he realized what he has done to screw up that love they once had and wants to fix it.