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 just want to love
Is that so much to ask?
I just want to tear up at movies
Lie out in the grass
And this song is dumb, I know
Sensitive singer-songwriter trash
But so am I, what can I say
I'll believe it all to the bitter last
I can hide behind names, clever words
The usual crap
But this is me talking
I'm sick of giving
And getting nothing back
I just want to love
Is that not enough?
I've got a big heart, a true heart
I really do believe this stuff
I just want a body to hold me
At the end of the day
I don't want to grow old alone
When I die, I want someone to say
"He was loved, and he was a lover"
And he buried in the woods
And lie alone, together
I just want a body to hold
At the end of the day
I don't need to kiss all the girls
Just as long as one of them stays
I know I missed the age of romance
Maybe there never was an age of romance
Maybe the likes of me just can't conceive
Of the world as it is, oh, so naive
But so free to dream
I believe in love, I do, I do
In what do you believe?
And I do joke, I know, but this isn't a joke
I'm a lonely man at the end of my rope
It's a cry for help, a cry for hope
I just need a little hope
That though I'm a fool, that there's another
Fool who's trapped outside of time
Looking for a lover
I just want to love
Is that so much to ask?
I just want to tear up at the movies
Lie out on the grass
Is that so much to ask?
I just want to tear up at movies
Lie out in the grass
And this song is dumb, I know
Sensitive singer-songwriter trash
But so am I, what can I say
I'll believe it all to the bitter last
I can hide behind names, clever words
The usual crap
But this is me talking
I'm sick of giving
And getting nothing back
I just want to love
Is that not enough?
I've got a big heart, a true heart
I really do believe this stuff
I just want a body to hold me
At the end of the day
I don't want to grow old alone
When I die, I want someone to say
"He was loved, and he was a lover"
And he buried in the woods
And lie alone, together
I just want a body to hold
At the end of the day
I don't need to kiss all the girls
Just as long as one of them stays
I know I missed the age of romance
Maybe there never was an age of romance
Maybe the likes of me just can't conceive
Of the world as it is, oh, so naive
But so free to dream
I believe in love, I do, I do
In what do you believe?
And I do joke, I know, but this isn't a joke
I'm a lonely man at the end of my rope
It's a cry for help, a cry for hope
I just need a little hope
That though I'm a fool, that there's another
Fool who's trapped outside of time
Looking for a lover
I just want to love
Is that so much to ask?
I just want to tear up at the movies
Lie out on the grass
Lyrics submitted by sigmalives
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