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"
Sitting in my class, just drifting away
Staring into the windows of the world, yeah
I can't hear the teacher, his books don't call me at all
I don't see the bad boys tryin' to catch some play
'Cause I love your smile
I love your smile
The clock at work says three
And I wanna be free
Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint
My toes all day
My boss is lame you know, and so is the pay
I'm gonna put that new black mini on my charge anyway
'Cause I love your smile
(Hey) Said I love your smile
Time came and showed me your direction
Now I know I'll never ever go back
Taught me that
I can be a better girl
With love you give, you rock my world
You dig
I'm showin' the life that I'm livin'
This is the life that I have
And it's given to you
Yeah, and it's true
Ladida, twinkly-dee
Do you, believe in a girl like me?
Shanice is the one for you to be with
But when I'm caught all alone
I start fessin'
It's from state of depression
And then the thunder clouds of doubt move in
I begin to wonder, "Do you still love me?"
But after that
My whole world is beautiful
Blow, Branford, blow
Time came and showed me your direction
Now I know I'll never ever go back
Taught me that
I can be a better girl
With love you give, you rock my world
Smile, psych
Ooh, I love your smile (smile for me)
And yes I do, boy
I love your smile
I love your smile, baby
I love your smile
I really do
Staring into the windows of the world, yeah
I can't hear the teacher, his books don't call me at all
I don't see the bad boys tryin' to catch some play
'Cause I love your smile
I love your smile
The clock at work says three
And I wanna be free
Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint
My toes all day
My boss is lame you know, and so is the pay
I'm gonna put that new black mini on my charge anyway
'Cause I love your smile
(Hey) Said I love your smile
Time came and showed me your direction
Now I know I'll never ever go back
Taught me that
I can be a better girl
With love you give, you rock my world
You dig
I'm showin' the life that I'm livin'
This is the life that I have
And it's given to you
Yeah, and it's true
Ladida, twinkly-dee
Do you, believe in a girl like me?
Shanice is the one for you to be with
But when I'm caught all alone
I start fessin'
It's from state of depression
And then the thunder clouds of doubt move in
I begin to wonder, "Do you still love me?"
But after that
My whole world is beautiful
Blow, Branford, blow
Time came and showed me your direction
Now I know I'll never ever go back
Taught me that
I can be a better girl
With love you give, you rock my world
Smile, psych
Ooh, I love your smile (smile for me)
And yes I do, boy
I love your smile
I love your smile, baby
I love your smile
I really do
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I Love Your Smile Lyrics as written by Narada Michael Walden Shanice Wilson
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