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"
Got to be there, got to be there (got to be there)
In the morning
When she says hello to the world
Got to be there, got to be there (got to be there)
Show her good times
Show her that she's my girl
Oh, what a feeling there'll be
The moment I know she loves me
'Cause when I look in her eyes
I realize
I need her sharing the world
Beside me
So I got to be there, got to be there (got to be there)
In the morning
Welcome her into my world, Lord, I wanna
Show her that she is my girl
When she says, "hello world!" (got to be there)
(In the morning) I'm gonna be right there
(Got to be there) in the morning when she wakes up, let me be there
(Got to be there) to help her say "hello, world"
Hello, world, hello, world, hello, world (got to be there)
(In the morning) I wanna be right there (got to be there)
Oh, oh
What a feeling there' gonna be
Hmm, the moment I know she loves me
'Cause when I look in her eyes
I realize
I need her sharing the world
Beside me
So I've got to be there, gotta be there (got to be there)
Where love begins
And that's everywhere my baby goes
I've got to be there so she knows
That when she's with me
She's home
Be right there, oh yeah
Tell the world I'm gonna be right there
In the morning, let me be right there
Don't you know I wanna be right there
Got to be there
In the morning
When she says hello to the world
Got to be there, got to be there (got to be there)
Show her good times
Show her that she's my girl
Oh, what a feeling there'll be
The moment I know she loves me
'Cause when I look in her eyes
I realize
I need her sharing the world
Beside me
So I got to be there, got to be there (got to be there)
In the morning
Welcome her into my world, Lord, I wanna
Show her that she is my girl
When she says, "hello world!" (got to be there)
(In the morning) I'm gonna be right there
(Got to be there) in the morning when she wakes up, let me be there
(Got to be there) to help her say "hello, world"
Hello, world, hello, world, hello, world (got to be there)
(In the morning) I wanna be right there (got to be there)
Oh, oh
What a feeling there' gonna be
Hmm, the moment I know she loves me
'Cause when I look in her eyes
I realize
I need her sharing the world
Beside me
So I've got to be there, gotta be there (got to be there)
Where love begins
And that's everywhere my baby goes
I've got to be there so she knows
That when she's with me
She's home
Be right there, oh yeah
Tell the world I'm gonna be right there
In the morning, let me be right there
Don't you know I wanna be right there
Got to be there
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