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"
In the summertime,
I don't know if the stars were aligned.
We'd stumble onto something we would like
And I'm afraid I lost the words tonight
And in your summer dress, was holding you
But you were holding less
It's not the words, it's the ones you stress
I love as I love you just don't love me less
And once in a while,
I know our hearts beat of time.
And once in a while,
I know they'll fall back in line.
And in the summertime,
I don't know if the stars were aligned
We'd stumble onto something we would like
And I'm afraid I lost the words tonight
And when we're middle aged,
You tell me I loved you like a renegade
And how I say the things that make you sway.
And mostly I tell you you did the same.
And once in a while,
I know our hearts beat out of time.
And once in a while,
I know they'll fall back in line.
Our love is strong.
Our love is strong.
Our love is strong.
While my heart's still pumping blood.
I don't know if the stars were aligned.
We'd stumble onto something we would like
And I'm afraid I lost the words tonight
And in your summer dress, was holding you
But you were holding less
It's not the words, it's the ones you stress
I love as I love you just don't love me less
And once in a while,
I know our hearts beat of time.
And once in a while,
I know they'll fall back in line.
And in the summertime,
I don't know if the stars were aligned
We'd stumble onto something we would like
And I'm afraid I lost the words tonight
And when we're middle aged,
You tell me I loved you like a renegade
And how I say the things that make you sway.
And mostly I tell you you did the same.
And once in a while,
I know our hearts beat out of time.
And once in a while,
I know they'll fall back in line.
Our love is strong.
Our love is strong.
Our love is strong.
While my heart's still pumping blood.
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In the Summertime Lyrics as written by Nils Edenloff Amy Lynne Cole
Lyrics © Red Brick Music Publishing
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i came to post exactly what afimrtl did.
its lovely.