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"
You were always the girl
Who would give me girl advice whenever I needed it (oh)
My best friend in the world
My friends said you were fine but I was always denyin' it
Then one summer day
I saw you laying
By your swimming pool
And I was thinking
"Damn, you really changed"
You're not the quiet girl I used to know
You opened up my eyes
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
I'll never see you the same
The veil has been lifted, now I see you're gifted
My whole perspective has changed
Don't think I can go back cause I will always desire it
Don't take another step
Near me, just in case we have regrets
If tomorrow we go back to being friends
I'll think about the way you looked tonight, yeah
So turn off all the lights
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
Maybe if you were someone else
It wouldn't have to be like this
I'm wondering how you feel about me now
Or was it just a friendly kiss, yeah
Cause I'm seeing you for the first time
She pulls me
Closer to her body
As she whispers softly
"Turn the lights out"
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
Who would give me girl advice whenever I needed it (oh)
My best friend in the world
My friends said you were fine but I was always denyin' it
Then one summer day
I saw you laying
By your swimming pool
And I was thinking
"Damn, you really changed"
You're not the quiet girl I used to know
You opened up my eyes
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
I'll never see you the same
The veil has been lifted, now I see you're gifted
My whole perspective has changed
Don't think I can go back cause I will always desire it
Don't take another step
Near me, just in case we have regrets
If tomorrow we go back to being friends
I'll think about the way you looked tonight, yeah
So turn off all the lights
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
Maybe if you were someone else
It wouldn't have to be like this
I'm wondering how you feel about me now
Or was it just a friendly kiss, yeah
Cause I'm seeing you for the first time
She pulls me
Closer to her body
As she whispers softly
"Turn the lights out"
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
I see you
Walk across my room in
Nothing but the moonlight
Now I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
My window
Frames you like a Monet
Don't come back to bed yet
Cuz I love to
See you in the dark
See you in the dark
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
See U In the Dark Lyrics as written by Alexander Noyes Michael Bruno
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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