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"
Once the love was strong
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
I been thinking bout
I been thinking bout
I been thinking bout you lately
Thoughts take me to when we were close
Addicted 2 your love, feel I need another dose
I know it's a feeling
That should be long gone
Things seem to come up
When I hear our song
Golden brown girl, it seem so long
Since I heard your voice
Where did the king go wrong?
Emotions that that they linger on
I guess cause I never knew a love so strong
So many hot girls
I need your warm
The taste of your mouth
Girl I need your warm
Good food and love
I need your warm
This here was made before we were born
A dreamer, so I'm a keep dreaming on
It's kinda like the breakup of Jen and Vince Vaughn
Once the love was strong
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
They say you don't know know know
What you got
Till what u got is gone
Yeah I write such and such yo a lot
But the feelings not as strong
We were like two birds
That were able to fly
I try to pick the right words to say to the sky
Somedays I would try but wasn't able to cry
I never been good at saying goodbye
I take a deep breath when the times is hard
When I reminisce over u, my god
I spent many years trying to be the heartthrob
I guess it's only right that I got my heart robbed
The scent of a room that reminds me of you
A hint of perfume it remind me of you
Take a look at the moon it remind me of you
Hope the stars and the gods
Align me and you
Once the love was strong
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
We do what we do
And we do what we live
I love this way
Cause I got it as a kid
Wit so much to give from it
I never hid
The love that I wrote on the mirror it got smeared
My friends say it was a change for the better
But I say, girl you changed my forever
Relationships they can be as strange as the weather
Rain or sun
We can sang this together
Cause I want you
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
I been thinking bout
I been thinking bout
I been thinking bout you lately
Thoughts take me to when we were close
Addicted 2 your love, feel I need another dose
I know it's a feeling
That should be long gone
Things seem to come up
When I hear our song
Golden brown girl, it seem so long
Since I heard your voice
Where did the king go wrong?
Emotions that that they linger on
I guess cause I never knew a love so strong
So many hot girls
I need your warm
The taste of your mouth
Girl I need your warm
Good food and love
I need your warm
This here was made before we were born
A dreamer, so I'm a keep dreaming on
It's kinda like the breakup of Jen and Vince Vaughn
Once the love was strong
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
They say you don't know know know
What you got
Till what u got is gone
Yeah I write such and such yo a lot
But the feelings not as strong
We were like two birds
That were able to fly
I try to pick the right words to say to the sky
Somedays I would try but wasn't able to cry
I never been good at saying goodbye
I take a deep breath when the times is hard
When I reminisce over u, my god
I spent many years trying to be the heartthrob
I guess it's only right that I got my heart robbed
The scent of a room that reminds me of you
A hint of perfume it remind me of you
Take a look at the moon it remind me of you
Hope the stars and the gods
Align me and you
Once the love was strong
Now it's long, long gone
Cause the pain, came down like a storm
I remained, holdin' on
Cause I want you, cause I want you
I want you, I want you
We do what we do
And we do what we live
I love this way
Cause I got it as a kid
Wit so much to give from it
I never hid
The love that I wrote on the mirror it got smeared
My friends say it was a change for the better
But I say, girl you changed my forever
Relationships they can be as strange as the weather
Rain or sun
We can sang this together
Cause I want you
Lyrics submitted by dopenfunkyfresh
I Want You Lyrics as written by Gene Mcdaniels Will Adams
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Once the love was strong Now it's long, long gone Cause the pain came down like a storm I remained holding on Cause I want you (2x) I want you (2x)
I just heard this song for the first time. The video was on MTV. I really like it! The song is great and the video was pretty cool as well. The sound is unique. It has a club/techno vibe to it which is very cool mixed with the hip hop.
I think the meaning of this song is pretty obvious but to me I feel it is about a man who misses an old girlfriend. He knows it should be over but he wants her back- he wants her in one way or another (short term, long term?). Everything reminds him of her and he hopes that they get back together.
HE WANTS HER!!! ;)
d000d, this song is hawt
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