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"
Kool, you know I've been thinkin'
What do we need to make things
Better in the world today
You know that's a beautiful thought
We need peace, we need unity
We need peace for you and me
You know because we are so blind
We can't see, we cannot see the creator of a tree
The creater of a bee, the creator of you and me
What are you doin' to make things better
Well, you see we are scientists of sound
We're mathematically puttin' it down
And you know we're tryin' to find the key to the light
What do you mean by the key to the light
Well, brother you see, from the darkness came the light
We need that light to find peace and unity
Because there's so much illusion and confusion
So much destruction, so much corruption
What could I do
Well, you know that's why we have to save the children
Because you're gonna play a very important part
So you must continue to strive and bring this peace and unity
Because there's only way we can find heaven
Through peace and unity
Would that be heaven?
Yes, you know that would be heaven at once
Heaven at once, ooh heaven
Heaven at once, ooh heaven
Heaven at once
Heaven at once
Ooh heaven, heaven at once
Yes, it would be heaven at once
What do we need to make things
Better in the world today
You know that's a beautiful thought
We need peace, we need unity
We need peace for you and me
You know because we are so blind
We can't see, we cannot see the creator of a tree
The creater of a bee, the creator of you and me
What are you doin' to make things better
Well, you see we are scientists of sound
We're mathematically puttin' it down
And you know we're tryin' to find the key to the light
What do you mean by the key to the light
Well, brother you see, from the darkness came the light
We need that light to find peace and unity
Because there's so much illusion and confusion
So much destruction, so much corruption
What could I do
Well, you know that's why we have to save the children
Because you're gonna play a very important part
So you must continue to strive and bring this peace and unity
Because there's only way we can find heaven
Through peace and unity
Would that be heaven?
Yes, you know that would be heaven at once
Heaven at once, ooh heaven
Heaven at once, ooh heaven
Heaven at once
Heaven at once
Ooh heaven, heaven at once
Yes, it would be heaven at once
Lyrics submitted by BleedorBreathe
Heaven at Once Lyrics as written by Ronald Bell Robert Bell
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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