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"
Winters come and summers go
Last time round for all we know
Wonder what the time is in London
As they tear this world apart
Step by step it breaks my heart
Wonder what the time is in London
Well, I know I'm not the lonely child
Thirty dead and one teenage gun man
I wonder what the time is in London, without you
I get up early every morning without you
I open up the blind and let the dawn in without you
And then I think about growing older without you
And my blood runs a little colder without you
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
Tales of screams from giant screens
Full of fear and full of beans
Wonder what the news is in London
Tell me what I've always known
Live is love and love's at home
Wonder if they miss me in London
These are the things that make us glad we're still alive
Even though your heart's in the dungeon
I wonder what the time is in London, without you
I get up early every morning without you
I open up the blind and let the dawn in without you
And then I think about growing older without you
And my blood runs a little colder without you
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
(Without you, without you)
It's raining hard in North Virginia
(Without you)
Just like London town, yeah
(Without you)
It's raining hard in North Virginia
(Without you)
Just like London town
(Without you)
Last time round for all we know
Wonder what the time is in London
As they tear this world apart
Step by step it breaks my heart
Wonder what the time is in London
Well, I know I'm not the lonely child
Thirty dead and one teenage gun man
I wonder what the time is in London, without you
I get up early every morning without you
I open up the blind and let the dawn in without you
And then I think about growing older without you
And my blood runs a little colder without you
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
Tales of screams from giant screens
Full of fear and full of beans
Wonder what the news is in London
Tell me what I've always known
Live is love and love's at home
Wonder if they miss me in London
These are the things that make us glad we're still alive
Even though your heart's in the dungeon
I wonder what the time is in London, without you
I get up early every morning without you
I open up the blind and let the dawn in without you
And then I think about growing older without you
And my blood runs a little colder without you
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
It's raining hard in North Virginia
Just like London town
(Without you, without you)
It's raining hard in North Virginia
(Without you)
Just like London town, yeah
(Without you)
It's raining hard in North Virginia
(Without you)
Just like London town
(Without you)
Lyrics submitted by Weaponstar
Without You Lyrics as written by Paul H. Jones
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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