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"
Baby, when our hearts awoke
Think of all the rules we broke
In the name of love, we hoped
Little did we know
Darling, all the time we spent
Ooh, ignoring all the consequences
And hiding from big evidence
Hoping things would change
But the yearning grew
Like the loneliness of a castaway
To be near to you was the only thing
In my mind each day
Keeping me alive
'Til your rescue came
Honey, you mean everything to me
[Chorus]
You ought to know by now
Love is everything to me
You ought to know by now
Only love can bring happiness
Wishful thinking spent in vain
What to lose and what to gain
All the guilt and all the pain
Seemed to come away
But baby when our hearts awoke
Oh, think of all the rules
We broke
In the name of love, we spoke
Little did we know
But the hope was there
Like a ray of sun on a cloudy day
Any change from impossibility
To the only way
Love can conquer all
And it's here to stay
Honey, you mean everything to me
[Chorus]
(You ought to know by now)
(You ought to know by now)
(You ought to know by now)
Think of all the rules we broke
In the name of love, we hoped
Little did we know
Darling, all the time we spent
Ooh, ignoring all the consequences
And hiding from big evidence
Hoping things would change
But the yearning grew
Like the loneliness of a castaway
To be near to you was the only thing
In my mind each day
Keeping me alive
'Til your rescue came
Honey, you mean everything to me
[Chorus]
You ought to know by now
Love is everything to me
You ought to know by now
Only love can bring happiness
Wishful thinking spent in vain
What to lose and what to gain
All the guilt and all the pain
Seemed to come away
But baby when our hearts awoke
Oh, think of all the rules
We broke
In the name of love, we spoke
Little did we know
But the hope was there
Like a ray of sun on a cloudy day
Any change from impossibility
To the only way
Love can conquer all
And it's here to stay
Honey, you mean everything to me
[Chorus]
(You ought to know by now)
(You ought to know by now)
(You ought to know by now)
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Know by Now Lyrics as written by Robert Allan Palmer
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