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"
Verse 1
I heard a sad song playing on the radio 'Bout a girl who loved him but she never really let it show Outside the rain keeps falling down my window I'm crying inside Gotta see you tonight
I understand I know somebody broke your heart before But it wasn't me who left the pieces lying on the floor But it's me who's out here in the rain knocking at your door Paying the price for all of his lies
Pre Hook
I'd write you a song but I can't find the words to say To tell you what's on my mind But even a symphony can't say what you mean to me So how can I... How can I give you
Hook
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
Verse 2
Wanna be the reason that you never look for love again Baby girl I wanna be your lover your best friend How we gonna make it if your never gonna let me in What can I do to prove that my love is true
Pre Hook 2
I keep holding on for as long as it's gonna take Until you realize Look in my eyes they won't ever let you be betrayed I'm not that guy But how can I give you
Hook
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
Bridge
Now girl you got me locked up doing time Got me paying for somebody else's crime But how can love burn If it's not returned I need more than that this So how can I give
Hook (2x)
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
I heard a sad song playing on the radio 'Bout a girl who loved him but she never really let it show Outside the rain keeps falling down my window I'm crying inside Gotta see you tonight
I understand I know somebody broke your heart before But it wasn't me who left the pieces lying on the floor But it's me who's out here in the rain knocking at your door Paying the price for all of his lies
Pre Hook
I'd write you a song but I can't find the words to say To tell you what's on my mind But even a symphony can't say what you mean to me So how can I... How can I give you
Hook
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
Verse 2
Wanna be the reason that you never look for love again Baby girl I wanna be your lover your best friend How we gonna make it if your never gonna let me in What can I do to prove that my love is true
Pre Hook 2
I keep holding on for as long as it's gonna take Until you realize Look in my eyes they won't ever let you be betrayed I'm not that guy But how can I give you
Hook
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
Bridge
Now girl you got me locked up doing time Got me paying for somebody else's crime But how can love burn If it's not returned I need more than that this So how can I give
Hook (2x)
All of me When all I get is half of you Now tell me what am I supposed to do If all I get is half of you If all you give is half of you
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