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"
Ooooh,ohhh,ooohh,ooohh,
ooooh,ohhh,ooohh,ooohh,oohhh
yeeeaaa,oooohhh no
This time i'lll spread my wings and fly heey..
dear mama, this goes out to you
I know its hard for you to accept what it is i do(but its you,who said)
Son follow your dreams, jus till then
Let the music isn't all its cracked up to be
(And i know that its hard to let go yea..)
But its time that i shine, and i know
That its this music that influenced me
(to keep on going through with me,)
(you don't know what it do to me)
i love ya moma, watch your boy shine..
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finnally a man) gotta find my won way now
(i know its hurting your soul) gotta find my won way now
(you gotta learn to let me go) gotta find my own way now
Verse 2:
And i pray dear god
(please let it come a day,i can support my family, and everything will be ok)
And i pray dear god
(let me get up out this hood, so brotha and sista can live good, and everything will be all good)
And i know that its hard to let go yea
But its time that i shine and i know yea
That its this music that influenced
To keep on going through with me
You don't know what it do to me
I love you momma but i gotta change...
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul) gotta find my own way now
(But you gotta let it go) gotta find my own way....
Segway:
(Everything i know i owe it all to you) I owe it all to you
(without your lovin care what would i do) what would i do
(can't imagine my life without you) hey..(momma)oh..(momma)hey..(momma) alrrite
(Everything i know i owe it all to you)I owe it all to you
(without your lovin care what would i do)what would i do
(can't imagine my life without you)hey..(momma) momma, momma, i owe it all to you....
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..(now its time for me to gow up and be mow own man)
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye(its not a goodbye but)
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul...i know) gotta find my own way now
(But its time to let me go momma) gotta find my own way....
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul...i know) gotta find my own way now
(But its time,but its time till you let me go...) gotta find my own way
(oh,oh,oh,oh,ohhhh)
(im doing it for.. you)
(ohh don't you worry bout me)
(immm in good hands momma)
(you raised me right, so im gonna fight the fight now)
(lets go, lets go, yea,yeeaa...)
(ohhhh)
(let it play on, play on......)
ooooh,ohhh,ooohh,ooohh,oohhh
yeeeaaa,oooohhh no
This time i'lll spread my wings and fly heey..
dear mama, this goes out to you
I know its hard for you to accept what it is i do(but its you,who said)
Son follow your dreams, jus till then
Let the music isn't all its cracked up to be
(And i know that its hard to let go yea..)
But its time that i shine, and i know
That its this music that influenced me
(to keep on going through with me,)
(you don't know what it do to me)
i love ya moma, watch your boy shine..
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finnally a man) gotta find my won way now
(i know its hurting your soul) gotta find my won way now
(you gotta learn to let me go) gotta find my own way now
Verse 2:
And i pray dear god
(please let it come a day,i can support my family, and everything will be ok)
And i pray dear god
(let me get up out this hood, so brotha and sista can live good, and everything will be all good)
And i know that its hard to let go yea
But its time that i shine and i know yea
That its this music that influenced
To keep on going through with me
You don't know what it do to me
I love you momma but i gotta change...
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul) gotta find my own way now
(But you gotta let it go) gotta find my own way....
Segway:
(Everything i know i owe it all to you) I owe it all to you
(without your lovin care what would i do) what would i do
(can't imagine my life without you) hey..(momma)oh..(momma)hey..(momma) alrrite
(Everything i know i owe it all to you)I owe it all to you
(without your lovin care what would i do)what would i do
(can't imagine my life without you)hey..(momma) momma, momma, i owe it all to you....
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..(now its time for me to gow up and be mow own man)
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye(its not a goodbye but)
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul...i know) gotta find my own way now
(But its time to let me go momma) gotta find my own way....
Bridge:
were at the cross roads meet me as far, as you can go
now its time for me to grow, up and be a man so..
Imma spread my wings and fly, this don't mean that its goodbye
But I gotta find, gotta find my own way now
Chorus:
(please understand) gotta find my own way now
(im finally a man) gotta find my own way now
(and its hurting your soul...i know) gotta find my own way now
(But its time,but its time till you let me go...) gotta find my own way
(oh,oh,oh,oh,ohhhh)
(im doing it for.. you)
(ohh don't you worry bout me)
(immm in good hands momma)
(you raised me right, so im gonna fight the fight now)
(lets go, lets go, yea,yeeaa...)
(ohhhh)
(let it play on, play on......)
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My Own Way Lyrics as written by Bryan Cox Sammy Lee Bush
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