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"
You mean the world to me
Being my everything
I don't understand it
Yeah hey
You mean the world to me
Huh-uh
You was my main one.
Ooo ohhh
Huh-uh
Huh-uh
I want to be with you
For the rest of my life
you're the only one that
Means the world to me
(Means the world to me)
I don't need a fancy car
Pearls or diamond rings
The love you had meant
Everything to me
(Me yeah)
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you
God only knows you take
Control of my soul
And you take me for a ride
Every time you're with me
(When you're with me)
You are warm in spirit
You are warm at heart
Why did you have to leave?
Why did we ever have to part?
Time came and took you away
I thought you were here to stay
Why did you have to leave me
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
Time came and took you away
I thought you were here to stay
Why did you have to leave me?
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
(I don't know why)
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you (2x)
Ooo?Ooo?ohhh?Ooo?Ooo?ohhh
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you (4x)
Being my everything
I don't understand it
Yeah hey
You mean the world to me
Huh-uh
You was my main one.
Ooo ohhh
Huh-uh
Huh-uh
I want to be with you
For the rest of my life
you're the only one that
Means the world to me
(Means the world to me)
I don't need a fancy car
Pearls or diamond rings
The love you had meant
Everything to me
(Me yeah)
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you
God only knows you take
Control of my soul
And you take me for a ride
Every time you're with me
(When you're with me)
You are warm in spirit
You are warm at heart
Why did you have to leave?
Why did we ever have to part?
Time came and took you away
I thought you were here to stay
Why did you have to leave me
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
Time came and took you away
I thought you were here to stay
Why did you have to leave me?
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
(I don't know why)
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you (2x)
Ooo?Ooo?ohhh?Ooo?Ooo?ohhh
Why did you have to leave and
Go away
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
Everytime I'm with you
It feels like I'm in heaven
I want to be with you
And no time to waste
You put a smile on my face
And baby don't you know now
I just sit and think of you (4x)
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I Wanna Be With You Lyrics as written by Jean Claude Olivier Anthony Cornelius Hamilton
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