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"
Standing alone in hopeless desperation
Growing weary from the fight
With the darkest fate, oh it'll last forever
There is no hope in sight
Though it seems the night is taking over
Just believe and it will pass
Put your hand in the hand of the saviour
I know your sorrow will not last
All your life you waited for this moment
Free your mind to walk a life abundant
But if you walk away you'll lose all that's been promised
You'll never find this piece of mind
So just hear me when I say
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
He is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, don't you be alarmed
He is here
Jesus said, he would be with you always
He will never leave your side
If you just trust him he will be a beacon
He will guide you through the night
And all your life you
All your life you've been waiting for this moment
Free your mind to walk a life abundant
But if you walk away you'll lose what has been promised
You'll never find this piece of mind
So just hear me when I say
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
No need to be afraid
I know, I know that he is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, no need to be alarmed
I know, I know, I know that he is here
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
He is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, no need to be alarmed
He is here
Growing weary from the fight
With the darkest fate, oh it'll last forever
There is no hope in sight
Though it seems the night is taking over
Just believe and it will pass
Put your hand in the hand of the saviour
I know your sorrow will not last
All your life you waited for this moment
Free your mind to walk a life abundant
But if you walk away you'll lose all that's been promised
You'll never find this piece of mind
So just hear me when I say
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
He is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, don't you be alarmed
He is here
Jesus said, he would be with you always
He will never leave your side
If you just trust him he will be a beacon
He will guide you through the night
And all your life you
All your life you've been waiting for this moment
Free your mind to walk a life abundant
But if you walk away you'll lose what has been promised
You'll never find this piece of mind
So just hear me when I say
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
No need to be afraid
I know, I know that he is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, no need to be alarmed
I know, I know, I know that he is here
God is waiting now to relieve your aching heart
He is here, his arms are open wide
He is here
Trust and believe; he's never very far
He is here, no need to be alarmed
He is here
Lyrics submitted by VANESSAA
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