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"
Wyclef in on the area
Kevin Micheal in the area
What we tell the girls?
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
All you gotta do is look at me
Three generations of my family, you see
People treat you different when you're in between
He was black and she was white
You know that most people thought that it wasn't right
I can still remember what she used to say
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(One love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
Every time I look at you
Deep in your brown eyes I see what your going through
The streets are different if you're in between
Oh, I can feel it everyday, whispers of words
That they think I don't hear them say
Before you let a tear fall, remember girl
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
Baby, things have changed but it's still the same
We gon' find a way so we can maintain
Even though it might get a little difficult
Always remember, girl, that we're inseparable
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me, yeah
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
Kevin Micheal in the area
What we tell the girls?
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
All you gotta do is look at me
Three generations of my family, you see
People treat you different when you're in between
He was black and she was white
You know that most people thought that it wasn't right
I can still remember what she used to say
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(One love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
Every time I look at you
Deep in your brown eyes I see what your going through
The streets are different if you're in between
Oh, I can feel it everyday, whispers of words
That they think I don't hear them say
Before you let a tear fall, remember girl
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
Baby, things have changed but it's still the same
We gon' find a way so we can maintain
Even though it might get a little difficult
Always remember, girl, that we're inseparable
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me, yeah
It don't make any difference to me
(One love, one love, one love)
What the world thinks about us, baby
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
Cause in my heart I will always believe
(Yup, one love, one love, one love)
That we were meant for each other
Love ain't got no color
It don't make any difference to me
Yeah, what they see
We love them black, we love them white, we love them Asian
Caribbean, the African, the Latin woman
The European, Middle Easterns and the Indian
This one goes out to all the girls around the nations
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
I got love for you
Hey, I got love for you
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