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"
Hey baby
La da li da da da
Hey baby
I know its late but I wanted to say
How you were doing
So how are you doing?
Mistakes, I know I made but I wanted to say
Baby I'm willing to make things right
Refrain:
Can we talk a while?
About anything and everything if there's anything
I can do to make it right
Cause I miss your smile
And lately girl I haven't been myself
And I wanna take this time to say
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody else but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Now baby
I know there are times when you worry about
You and me
So don't you worry bout a thing
Cause you're like water
Except I need you more than eight times a day
You're essential
More important than the air I breathe
Refrain:
Can we talk a while?
About anything and everything if there's anything
I can do to make you smile
Can we kiss a while?
And lately girl I haven't been myself
And I wanna take this time to say
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody else but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Looking back on all the loves that I had before
I didn't see forever in their eyes
But when I look at you
I see you in the picture of my life
Baby then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Ohh desperately
Why I need you desperately
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
La da li da da da
Hey baby
I know its late but I wanted to say
How you were doing
So how are you doing?
Mistakes, I know I made but I wanted to say
Baby I'm willing to make things right
Refrain:
Can we talk a while?
About anything and everything if there's anything
I can do to make it right
Cause I miss your smile
And lately girl I haven't been myself
And I wanna take this time to say
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody else but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Now baby
I know there are times when you worry about
You and me
So don't you worry bout a thing
Cause you're like water
Except I need you more than eight times a day
You're essential
More important than the air I breathe
Refrain:
Can we talk a while?
About anything and everything if there's anything
I can do to make you smile
Can we kiss a while?
And lately girl I haven't been myself
And I wanna take this time to say
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody else but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Looking back on all the loves that I had before
I didn't see forever in their eyes
But when I look at you
I see you in the picture of my life
Baby then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Ohh desperately
Why I need you desperately
Chorus:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love
And I can't see myself with nobody but you love
Honey if you could only see
That there's nobody else in this world for me
Then maybe then you'll see
Why I need you desperately
Lyrics submitted by rhythmx
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it's self-explanatory i think. but the one part that truly hit me was this:
I don't wanna settle for the one that I don't love And I can't see myself with nobody else but you love Honey if you could only see That there's nobody else in this world for me
i think, once a person reaches this realization, letting go of that person is the hardest thing u can do.