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"
Everything ain't what it seems
In this world of broken dreams
And the things they try to teach you
Sure ain't what you've seen
But you make it all seem right
When you whisper in the night
Won't you wrap those calming arms around me?
Hold me tight
Hold me near through the years
Through the fears, through the tears
Well it makes you want to shout
With the crap they're dishin' out
You're the only one it seems
To make it all work out
And you're always by my side
Puttin' up with foolish pride
When the day to day fiascoes
Only multiply
You're the heart, you're the soul
When the world takes its toll
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
In your arms
With my back against the wall
When you keep standing tall
When I stumble, you are
Always there to break my fall
When I'm far away from home
I can call you on the phone
When I hear your voice
Then certainly I'm not alone
All the words that you say
Make the miles drift away
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
?Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
You take me far away from there
When you hold me in your arms right away, yeah!
SOLO
(Won't you hear me now?)
Everything ain't what it seems
In this world of broken dreams
And the things they try to teach you
Sure ain't what you've seen
In the dark, in the night
In your arms, it's all right
You're the heart, you're the soul
When the world takes its toll
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
?Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms
Everything ain't what it seems
In this world of broken dreams
And the things they try to teach you
Sure ain't what you've seen
But you make it all seem right
When you whisper in the night
Won't you wrap those calming arms around me?
Hold me tight
Hold me near through the years
Through the fears, through the tears
Well it makes you want to shout
With the crap they're dishin' out
You're the only one it seems
To make it all work out
And you're always by my side
Puttin' up with foolish pride
When the day to day fiascoes
Only multiply
You're the heart, you're the soul
When the world takes its toll
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
In your arms
With my back against the wall
When you keep standing tall
When I stumble, you are
Always there to break my fall
When I'm far away from home
I can call you on the phone
When I hear your voice
Then certainly I'm not alone
All the words that you say
Make the miles drift away
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
?Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
You take me far away from there
When you hold me in your arms right away, yeah!
SOLO
(Won't you hear me now?)
Everything ain't what it seems
In this world of broken dreams
And the things they try to teach you
Sure ain't what you've seen
In the dark, in the night
In your arms, it's all right
You're the heart, you're the soul
When the world takes its toll
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
?Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
The load is getting lighter
When I'm in your arms
Just squeeze a little tighter
When I'm in your arms
Cause it all seems so easy
When I'm in your arms
Just hold me tight and squeeze me
When I'm in your arms
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms
Everything ain't what it seems
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In Your Arms Lyrics as written by Gregg Sutton Ron Young
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