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"
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby
Do you recognize me
Well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me
Merry Christmas, I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying 'I love you', I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kiss me now, I know you'd fool me again
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
A crowded room and friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God, I thought you were someone to rely on
Me, I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A girl on a cover but you tore her apart
Maybe this year
Maybe this year I'll give it to someone special
'Cause last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
And last Christmas
And this year
It won't be anything like, anything like
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby
Do you recognize me
Well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me
Merry Christmas, I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying 'I love you', I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kiss me now, I know you'd fool me again
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
A crowded room and friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God, I thought you were someone to rely on
Me, I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A girl on a cover but you tore her apart
Maybe this year
Maybe this year I'll give it to someone special
'Cause last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
And last Christmas
And this year
It won't be anything like, anything like
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
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when she says, "Merry Christmas, I wrapped it up and sent it" it makes me think that she was giving him her 'heart' again.
I think it's 'I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice' not 'eyes' that's just what I'm hearing c:
i love this song. and i have heard it from 4 ppl her , the original one, carrie underwood, and ashley tisdale, (i like all of them) this song means soo much to me. i love songs like these. where he broke her heart and she fell for a guy that didnt whole heartedly fall for her so she got broken and she knows i m not gonna make that same mistake twice. it means a lot to me when a song says that they are not gonna let their heart get broken a second time. cuz its practically my theme song.
@lexi0498
Actually the original version was done by George Michael who also wrote it. Everyone else covered it which is cool
Why does this song have to be sad? LOL. I was looking for a happy song like this during Christmas, and this is what I thought up:
<i>Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special.
Once smitten and twice shy, I keep my distance, But you still catch my eye. Tell me, baby, do you recognize me? Well, we’ve never talked, it doesn’t surprise me. Merry Christmas, I wrap it up and send it With a note saying, “I love you”– I mean it! Now I know how in love I am, ‘cause if you kissed me now, I know I’d fall again.
Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special. Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special.
A crowded room and friends with laughing eyes, I’m hiding from you and your gorgeous smile. My God, tonight you look so handsome. Me? I don’t feel very special. A face on a lover with a fire in his heart; A girl undercover ‘cause I’m falling apart. Maybe this year, maybe this year, I’ll give it to someone special.
Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special. Last Christmas… And this year… won’t be anything like, anything like… Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special. Last Christmas I was singing the blues ‘cause I had no one to give my heart to. This year I’ll be saved from tears ‘cause I’ll give it to someone special. </i>
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