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 don't like you
But I love you
Seems that I'm always
Thinking of you
Though you treat me badly
I love you madly
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I don't want you
But I need you
Don't want to kiss you
But I need to
Though you do me wrong now
My love is strong now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I love you
And all I want you to do is
Just hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Tighter
Tighter
I want to leave you
Don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend another day here
Though I want to split now
I can't quit now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I love you
And all I want you to do is
Just hold me
Hold me
Please
Hold me
Squeeze
Hold me
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me
I said you've really got a hold on me
You know, you've really got a hold on me
But I love you
Seems that I'm always
Thinking of you
Though you treat me badly
I love you madly
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I don't want you
But I need you
Don't want to kiss you
But I need to
Though you do me wrong now
My love is strong now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I love you
And all I want you to do is
Just hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Tighter
Tighter
I want to leave you
Don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend another day here
Though I want to split now
I can't quit now
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby
I love you
And all I want you to do is
Just hold me
Hold me
Please
Hold me
Squeeze
Hold me
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me
I said you've really got a hold on me
You know, you've really got a hold on me
Lyrics submitted by RaineBM1185
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can someone help me find this song?
I can't find it anywhere either! Keep trying, I am.
Laura Nyro does this song, check her stuff out. I haqve it on It's Gonna Take a Miracle CD.
This is a Beatles song...
that doesnt make this song less good. this version is better than the beatles imo.
It's actually a song by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
The original one is by The Miracles
Beat me to it lol