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"
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
We have fallen down again tonight
In this world it's hard to get it right
Trying to make your heart fit like a glove
What it needs is love, love, love
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come again
Swing open up your chest and let it in
Just let the love, love, love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh, everybody knows the love
Everybody holds the love
Everybody folds for love
Everybody feels the love
Everybody steals the love
Everybody heals with love
Oh oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love (everybody knows the love)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (everybody holds the love)
Oh oh oh (everybody folds for love)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (everybody feels the love)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (everybody steals the love)
Oh oh oh (everybody heals with love)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (oh everybody)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (oh everybody)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh
Hm hm hm hm
Hm hm hm hm
We have fallen down again tonight
In this world it's hard to get it right
Trying to make your heart fit like a glove
What it needs is love, love, love
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come again
Swing open up your chest and let it in
Just let the love, love, love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh, everybody knows the love
Everybody holds the love
Everybody folds for love
Everybody feels the love
Everybody steals the love
Everybody heals with love
Oh oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love (everybody knows the love)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (everybody holds the love)
Oh oh oh (everybody folds for love)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (everybody feels the love)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (everybody steals the love)
Oh oh oh (everybody heals with love)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (oh everybody)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love (oh everybody)
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh (oh everybody)
Oh oh oh
Hm hm hm hm
Lyrics submitted by emeraldcity84
Everybody Lyrics as written by Ingrid Michaelson
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
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Correct:
We have fallen down again tonight, In this world it's hard to get it right. Trying to make your heart fit like a glove, What it needs is love, love, love.
Everybody, everybody wants to love, Everybody, everybody wants to be loved. Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Happy is the heart that still feels pain, Darkness drains and light will come again. Swing open up your chest and let it in, Just let the love, love, love begin.
Everybody, everybody wants to love, Everybody, everybody wants to be loved. Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Everybody knows the love Everybody holds the love, Everybody folds for love. Everybody feels the love, Everybody steals the love, Everybody heals with love. Oh oh oh Just let the love, love, love begin
Everybody, everybody wants to love, Everybody, everybody wants to be loved. Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
I am immensely in love with this song. This track is so melodic, catchy, and lovely.
She's amazing =)
It's about getting over a break up and being ready to love again.
wow, i agree with hannahjordan. the song is very catchy and melodic. and like missme stated, it's about being ready to love again and knowing that everyone wants to love and be loved.
i love the line "Oh the heart holds many hands" :)
oops ... keke. wrong line quoted :P the lyrics seriously need to be changed via lalaLOVElySTARR's corrections :)