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"
I've been here forever
In an instant replay
And all the familiar faces and familiar places
Just don't look the same
Yeah, I've been here forever
But I was born yesterday
There's so many ways to spin this
But if God is my witness
Well he'd probably say
That it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
I was a creature of habit
Yeah, I was a slave to the drink
My old friends drinking whiskey
And I'm sipping champagne
I don't care what they think
'Cause I got me an angel
And everything is all right
I mean what can I say, I was born yesterday
And I'll be born again tonight
And it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
And who knows what I'd be
If it had been up to me
I'd still be wandering (oh, and wondering)
And who knows what I'd find
Living deaf, living blind
Well, that devil's deceased
I will leave him behind
And it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, and that's a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do, what can I do with a love so true?
It's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, and that's a love, that's a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
In an instant replay
And all the familiar faces and familiar places
Just don't look the same
Yeah, I've been here forever
But I was born yesterday
There's so many ways to spin this
But if God is my witness
Well he'd probably say
That it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
I was a creature of habit
Yeah, I was a slave to the drink
My old friends drinking whiskey
And I'm sipping champagne
I don't care what they think
'Cause I got me an angel
And everything is all right
I mean what can I say, I was born yesterday
And I'll be born again tonight
And it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
And who knows what I'd be
If it had been up to me
I'd still be wandering (oh, and wondering)
And who knows what I'd find
Living deaf, living blind
Well, that devil's deceased
I will leave him behind
And it's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, and that's a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do, what can I do with a love so true?
It's all because you gave me something
Just what I need, and that's a love, that's a love so deep
And it's all because you gave me something
And what can I do with a love so true?
Lyrics submitted by nickg
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