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"
Loves not about the first or second
It’s the last that makes all forgiven
It’ll be brighter then her eyes
Gleaming off the tip of your nights
Like sidewalk walks in a small park
Hand in hand with the devil as lights turn off the dark
I never wanted to fall in love
Joy and sorrow pass under the bridge
In the back of the woods it’s just a small trip
But when it comes its came
Likely it won’t ever be the same
I never wanted to be alone
I see you grasping tight to that novel
Hoping something of romance will arrive like a miracle
When the sun came back on the return
The wine is emptied again I notice the concern
I never wanted to be in love
In your gas station lights and pings
Play the sevens and sing sing sing
I want to love
(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
I just can’t anymore
Just close the door
I can’t see out there
I wish you could be under these covers with me
I just want you to love…(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
Sometimes it’ll come around
And you will hear the sound
You’ll relize your just like me
And you can’t get out of your angers
So let love in
Maybe she will take in him
My worst fear is that I will be alone
I never wanted to be alone
I want to love
(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
I just can’t anymore
Just close your door
I can’t see you there
I wish I could be under those covers with you
I just want you to love
And I want too… I want too… I just can’t
It’s the last that makes all forgiven
It’ll be brighter then her eyes
Gleaming off the tip of your nights
Like sidewalk walks in a small park
Hand in hand with the devil as lights turn off the dark
I never wanted to fall in love
Joy and sorrow pass under the bridge
In the back of the woods it’s just a small trip
But when it comes its came
Likely it won’t ever be the same
I never wanted to be alone
I see you grasping tight to that novel
Hoping something of romance will arrive like a miracle
When the sun came back on the return
The wine is emptied again I notice the concern
I never wanted to be in love
In your gas station lights and pings
Play the sevens and sing sing sing
I want to love
(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
I just can’t anymore
Just close the door
I can’t see out there
I wish you could be under these covers with me
I just want you to love…(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
Sometimes it’ll come around
And you will hear the sound
You’ll relize your just like me
And you can’t get out of your angers
So let love in
Maybe she will take in him
My worst fear is that I will be alone
I never wanted to be alone
I want to love
(I want to… I want… I just can’t)
I just can’t anymore
Just close your door
I can’t see you there
I wish I could be under those covers with you
I just want you to love
And I want too… I want too… I just can’t
Lyrics submitted by PeerlessHands
I Want Too. I Want? I Just Can’t (Something For You song meanings
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