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 know you wanna stay in bed
But it's light outside
It's light outside
So know I'm gonna stay right here
You saved my life once
You saved my life
And I
Will try
To get you up
'Cause it's beautiful outside
And we'll fall
But we'll try
We'll do our best
And I'll love you all the while
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
I know you wanna rest your head
And just forget the night
Forget the night
So know I'm gonna stay right here
I'll sit by your side
Sit by your side
And I
I'll try
To get you up
It's beautiful outside
We'll fall
But we'll try
We'll do our best
And I'll love you all the while
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
I think I always knew you would be
I think I always knew you would be
The greatest
The greatest
I think I always knew you would be
I think I always knew you would be
The greatest
The greatest
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
But it's light outside
It's light outside
So know I'm gonna stay right here
You saved my life once
You saved my life
And I
Will try
To get you up
'Cause it's beautiful outside
And we'll fall
But we'll try
We'll do our best
And I'll love you all the while
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
I know you wanna rest your head
And just forget the night
Forget the night
So know I'm gonna stay right here
I'll sit by your side
Sit by your side
And I
I'll try
To get you up
It's beautiful outside
We'll fall
But we'll try
We'll do our best
And I'll love you all the while
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
I think I always knew you would be
I think I always knew you would be
The greatest
The greatest
I think I always knew you would be
I think I always knew you would be
The greatest
The greatest
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Because you saved my life once
Lyrics submitted by ClumsyLittleHeart
Light Outside Lyrics as written by William Michael Grubbs
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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