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 wake up every morning and see your face lying right beside me, it fills the space in my heart. I can't live without you. Don't wanna figure out how to. And every time I lay my head down to sleep, the emptiness inside me starts to beat so loud. I can't hear the sound. Do you hear it for you?
(chorus)
I fall in love all over again each time I lay my eyes on you I pretend. I feel so helpless without you, feel so helpless without you. It takes a piece of me each time you leave. I feel it in my chest, so hard to breathe. I feel so helpless (when I'm with you) without you. I feel so helpless (when I'm with you) without you.
I witness every trick you got up your sleeve, but somehow you keep on surprising me. I'm yours. I can't live without you. Don't wanna figure out how to. Every time I see you, I feel like I could be the luckiest man in the world. Why try to fight it? There's no need to hide it, because you know...
(repeat chorus)
Pitbull: Every time I close my eyes, you're the first thing that runs through my mind. Everywhere I go I see you, hear you, feel you. I just wanna be near you and heal you. Last thing you said is "how dare you". First thing that I said is "I'm sorry." Now I'm sitting here helpless. Man, same old story. Now she's brokenhearted. Time heals all the wounds. She said "not this time". It's true. Everyone plays a fool and that fool is me. Because I foolishly took advantage of a woman who loved me.
(repeat chorus)
(chorus)
I fall in love all over again each time I lay my eyes on you I pretend. I feel so helpless without you, feel so helpless without you. It takes a piece of me each time you leave. I feel it in my chest, so hard to breathe. I feel so helpless (when I'm with you) without you. I feel so helpless (when I'm with you) without you.
I witness every trick you got up your sleeve, but somehow you keep on surprising me. I'm yours. I can't live without you. Don't wanna figure out how to. Every time I see you, I feel like I could be the luckiest man in the world. Why try to fight it? There's no need to hide it, because you know...
(repeat chorus)
Pitbull: Every time I close my eyes, you're the first thing that runs through my mind. Everywhere I go I see you, hear you, feel you. I just wanna be near you and heal you. Last thing you said is "how dare you". First thing that I said is "I'm sorry." Now I'm sitting here helpless. Man, same old story. Now she's brokenhearted. Time heals all the wounds. She said "not this time". It's true. Everyone plays a fool and that fool is me. Because I foolishly took advantage of a woman who loved me.
(repeat chorus)
Lyrics submitted by pedroisnohere
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