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've been to heaven before
But I must have been too young to realize
I would've stayed there
If I had known about my paradise
What a time to believe
I could make it on my own
What a lesson to learn
Widen up, you're all alone
I tried to run away but I just
Keep comin' back to you
I keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
I keep comin' back to you
There was a time in my life
When everything was all about change
I'm not ashamed to admit
There's one thing that still remains the same
All the stars pave a way
All I did was think of you
All the love that I missed
Now I know just what to do
I tried to run away
But I just keep comin' back to you
I keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you, baby, baby
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Tell me that nothin' is changed
Tell me you want me to stay
I keep comin' back
Keep comin' back
I try to runaway but I just
Keep comin' back to you
Said, I'm gonna keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
But I must have been too young to realize
I would've stayed there
If I had known about my paradise
What a time to believe
I could make it on my own
What a lesson to learn
Widen up, you're all alone
I tried to run away but I just
Keep comin' back to you
I keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
I keep comin' back to you
There was a time in my life
When everything was all about change
I'm not ashamed to admit
There's one thing that still remains the same
All the stars pave a way
All I did was think of you
All the love that I missed
Now I know just what to do
I tried to run away
But I just keep comin' back to you
I keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you, baby, baby
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Tell me that nothin' is changed
Tell me you want me to stay
I keep comin' back
Keep comin' back
I try to runaway but I just
Keep comin' back to you
Said, I'm gonna keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back
Keep comin' back to you
No one ever really loved me
Not the way that you do
Keep comin' back to you
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings
Keep Comin' Back Lyrics as written by Pescetto Lorber
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.