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"
Your love, it means the world to me
Words cannot express the joy you bring
Your love, it moves me tenderly
To have you by my side means everything, I sing
Your love, it has the best of me
If I could give you more than that would be
Settle for my love, settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
'Cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
Your love, means the world to me
And like the ocean wide, your love runs deep
Your love, it moves tenderly
Yeah, like when the birds outside my window sing
Settle for my love, settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
Ooh, 'cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
I can't bring you precious stars or paradise
And all these things are really on my mind
All that I can give you is love so true
From the heart
Your love (your love)
Means the world to me (means the world to me)
No words, no words express the joy your bring
Your love (ooh) it has the best of me (yeah, yeah, yeah)
(If I could only give you everything)
Settle for my love (yeah), settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
Ooh, 'cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
Settle for my love (settle for my kiss)
Settle for my love (that you'll never, never, never miss)
Settle for my love ('cause that's all I can give)
Settle for my love (all I can give you)
Settle for my love
Settle for my love (just settle for my love)
Settle for my love (darling, take my hand, you mean the world to me)
Settle for my love (tenderly, I'm in ecstasy)
Settle for my love
Words cannot express the joy you bring
Your love, it moves me tenderly
To have you by my side means everything, I sing
Your love, it has the best of me
If I could give you more than that would be
Settle for my love, settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
'Cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
Your love, means the world to me
And like the ocean wide, your love runs deep
Your love, it moves tenderly
Yeah, like when the birds outside my window sing
Settle for my love, settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
Ooh, 'cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
I can't bring you precious stars or paradise
And all these things are really on my mind
All that I can give you is love so true
From the heart
Your love (your love)
Means the world to me (means the world to me)
No words, no words express the joy your bring
Your love (ooh) it has the best of me (yeah, yeah, yeah)
(If I could only give you everything)
Settle for my love (yeah), settle for my kiss
Settle for my love, bet you'll never miss
So dear to me, darling, take my hand
Settle for my kiss
Ooh, 'cause that's all I can give
Settle for my love, that you'll never miss
Settle for my love (settle for my kiss)
Settle for my love (that you'll never, never, never miss)
Settle for my love ('cause that's all I can give)
Settle for my love (all I can give you)
Settle for my love
Settle for my love (just settle for my love)
Settle for my love (darling, take my hand, you mean the world to me)
Settle for my love (tenderly, I'm in ecstasy)
Settle for my love
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Settle For My Love Lyrics as written by Patrice Rushen Fred Washington
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