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"
Damn,
The Doctor's just
Finished telling me
There's no time
Losing you could be the
End of me and that I
Should do the things
That I wanna do
How could I?
Without you,
Without you,
Oh, oh
'Cause your the only
One I let in
Tell me how to stop
This feeling
Spreading
I'm hoping somehow
That you know
Oh oh
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey, hey, hey
If I died,
Yeah would you come
To my funeral
Would you cry?
Would you feel some regret
That we didn't try?
Or would you fall apart
The same as I, I, I, I
Oh,
And would it always
Haunt you baby?
That you missed your chance
To save me?
'Cause you know its not
Too late
Hey, hey ,hey
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
That my heart
Won't Beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey,
I need you
Back in my arms
I need love CPR
'Cause its getting
So cold, ooh
I need you back again,
Or else I'll never mend,
And girl if I go
I go, I go, I go
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
That my heart
Won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
The Doctor's just
Finished telling me
There's no time
Losing you could be the
End of me and that I
Should do the things
That I wanna do
How could I?
Without you,
Without you,
Oh, oh
'Cause your the only
One I let in
Tell me how to stop
This feeling
Spreading
I'm hoping somehow
That you know
Oh oh
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey, hey, hey
If I died,
Yeah would you come
To my funeral
Would you cry?
Would you feel some regret
That we didn't try?
Or would you fall apart
The same as I, I, I, I
Oh,
And would it always
Haunt you baby?
That you missed your chance
To save me?
'Cause you know its not
Too late
Hey, hey ,hey
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
That my heart
Won't Beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey,
I need you
Back in my arms
I need love CPR
'Cause its getting
So cold, ooh
I need you back again,
Or else I'll never mend,
And girl if I go
I go, I go, I go
Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
That my heart
Won't beat again
Won't beat again
It's killing me
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
Hey, come on
I'm beggin'
Please don't let me, go
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I think someone should make Marvin, JB, Oritse and aston read their own lyrics, don't you? RIP JLS "let's just get back together, we should've never broke up"