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 want to know
Why can't we stay together
Let's stay together [x3]
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is alright with me
You make me feel so brand new
(It's you that always makes me feel brand new)
I want to spend my whole life with you
(I just want to spend my life with you)
Let me say that since, since we've been together
Loving you forever is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
(Let me be the one that you run to)
I'll never be untrue
(I will never be untrue to you)
Oh baby let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you forever
(Let's stay together)
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Ooh, tell me why can't we stay together
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Why, why do people break up
Turn around and make up
And I just can't see
You'd never do that to me
(you would never do that to me)
Being around you is what I see
(Being around you that is what I see)
Baby baby let's, let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you whether
(Let's stay together)
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Let's stay together
Let's stay together
(Loving your forever)
Let's stay together
Together
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Yeah, why can't we stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you baby
(Let's stay together)
Good, bad, happy or sad
I want you
(Let's stay together)
Forever and ever
(Let's stay together)
Let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Why can't we stay together
Let's stay together [x3]
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is alright with me
You make me feel so brand new
(It's you that always makes me feel brand new)
I want to spend my whole life with you
(I just want to spend my life with you)
Let me say that since, since we've been together
Loving you forever is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
(Let me be the one that you run to)
I'll never be untrue
(I will never be untrue to you)
Oh baby let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you forever
(Let's stay together)
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Ooh, tell me why can't we stay together
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Why, why do people break up
Turn around and make up
And I just can't see
You'd never do that to me
(you would never do that to me)
Being around you is what I see
(Being around you that is what I see)
Baby baby let's, let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you whether
(Let's stay together)
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Let's stay together
Let's stay together
(Loving your forever)
Let's stay together
Together
(Good, bad, happy or sad)
Yeah, why can't we stay together
(Let's stay together)
Loving you baby
(Let's stay together)
Good, bad, happy or sad
I want you
(Let's stay together)
Forever and ever
(Let's stay together)
Let's stay together
(Let's stay together)
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Let's Stay Together Lyrics as written by Al Green Willie Mitchell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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