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"
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ah, ooh ooh
What if I told you it was all meant to be?
Would you believe me, would you agree?
It's almost that feeling that we've met before
So tell me that you don't think I'm crazy
When I tell your love has come here and now
A moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Everything changes, but beauty remains
Something so tender I can't explain
Well I may be dreaming but 'til I could awake
Can we make the dream last forever?
And I'll cherish all the love that we share
A moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Could this be the greatest love of all?
I wanna know that you will catch me when I fall
So let me tell you this
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this
(Some people wait a lifetime)
A moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this (for a moment like this)
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
(Some people search forever)
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
For a moment like this
Ooh, ah, ooh ooh
What if I told you it was all meant to be?
Would you believe me, would you agree?
It's almost that feeling that we've met before
So tell me that you don't think I'm crazy
When I tell your love has come here and now
A moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Everything changes, but beauty remains
Something so tender I can't explain
Well I may be dreaming but 'til I could awake
Can we make the dream last forever?
And I'll cherish all the love that we share
A moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
Could this be the greatest love of all?
I wanna know that you will catch me when I fall
So let me tell you this
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this
(Some people wait a lifetime)
A moment like this
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this (for a moment like this)
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
(Some people search forever)
For that one special kiss
I can't believe it's happening to me
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this
For a moment like this
Lyrics submitted by unfabulousme
A Moment Like This Lyrics as written by Jorgen Elofsson John Reid
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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