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"
One, two, one, two, three, four
Sweet and high at the break of dawn
Simple tune that you can hum along too
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Knew all the words to the popular songs
With the radio on full volume
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Forget the chorus, you?re the bridge
The words and music to everyday I?ve lived
There?s nothing, I wouldn?t give
For one more time, when I can sing for you
[Chorus]
Oh Yeah
[Chorus]
Soft and low when the evening comes
Holding you, sleeping in my arms
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
Sweet and high at the break of dawn
Simple tune that you can hum along too
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Knew all the words to the popular songs
With the radio on full volume
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
Forget the chorus, you?re the bridge
The words and music to everyday I?ve lived
There?s nothing, I wouldn?t give
For one more time, when I can sing for you
[Chorus]
Oh Yeah
[Chorus]
Soft and low when the evening comes
Holding you, sleeping in my arms
I remember there was a time
When I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
[Chorus]
I used to sing for you
Lyrics submitted by ShadowZero00
Sing for You Lyrics as written by Steven Chapman
Lyrics © ESSENTIAL MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Interview with NPR, August 20th, 2009: MARTIN: One of the big songs from this tour was your single "Sing for You." Do you want to tell us a little bit about it before we play a little of it?
Ms. CHAPMAN: Sure. It's a song that I think I was inspired to write because I remembered all these times that I listened to music with other people and how the music has been a soundtrack in my life, and the times that people sang to me, or I sang to other people. And just thinking about being in the car and singing with my friends, or my sister and I, we would sing to the radio. You know, we'd listen to, like, top 40 radio and sing along to the songs. And of course, that's now what I do for a living, too, is to sing for people, but this song was really not about that, and just more about how it's a part of the fabric of our everyday lives.
MARTIN: All right, well, let's play a little bit. Here it is, "Sing For You."
(Soundbite of song, "Sing For You")
Ms. CHAPMAN: (Singing) Sweet and high at the break of dawn, simple tune you can hum along to. I remember there was a time when I used to sing for you, I used to sing for you.
MARTIN: You know, it's a sweet song, but it's sort of wistful. Why used to?
Ms. CHAPMAN: You know, other people have asked this question, and I only hear it now, and hearing it back, it does sound a little wistful.
MARTIN: But you really didn't hear that at the time?
Ms. CHAPMAN: I didn't, no, no. One of the musicians mentioned it in the studio. He was saying it's a sweet song, but it seemed a little sad, and I was like, oh, it's not sad.
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