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"
All God's children we got to come together
And share the good feeling
'Cause nothing ever gonna make this world better
If we don't start believing
That love really really really is the answer
Just like the wise men say
Let the night come to see us, the music come free us
And let's start drifting away
Leave all our problems behind now, no worries
Everybody join hands 'cause it's time now, now
(It's time to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All over the world
All my brothers and sisters, ain't nobody can tell us
That this planet is falling apart (No no no)
If we just love each other (If we just love each other)
And lift up one another
Shout out loud from every heart
Leave all our troubles behind now (no worries, no worries)
Everybody join hands cause it's time now, now
(It's time to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
Spread it all over the world
(Spread it all over the world)
We got to spread the love
(We got to spread the love, spread the love)
Love is the ticket, the train it will take us
No one can stop us, nobody will break us
Follow the rhythm that leads us to Heaven tonight
Leave all our troubles behind now, now
Everybody join hands cause it's time now, now, now
(We got to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's children
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
We've got to spread the love
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Love is the ticket, the train it will take us
No one can stop us, nobody will break us
Follow the rhythm that leads us to Heaven tonight
And share the good feeling
'Cause nothing ever gonna make this world better
If we don't start believing
That love really really really is the answer
Just like the wise men say
Let the night come to see us, the music come free us
And let's start drifting away
Leave all our problems behind now, no worries
Everybody join hands 'cause it's time now, now
(It's time to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All over the world
All my brothers and sisters, ain't nobody can tell us
That this planet is falling apart (No no no)
If we just love each other (If we just love each other)
And lift up one another
Shout out loud from every heart
Leave all our troubles behind now (no worries, no worries)
Everybody join hands cause it's time now, now
(It's time to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
Spread it all over the world
(Spread it all over the world)
We got to spread the love
(We got to spread the love, spread the love)
Love is the ticket, the train it will take us
No one can stop us, nobody will break us
Follow the rhythm that leads us to Heaven tonight
Leave all our troubles behind now, now
Everybody join hands cause it's time now, now, now
(We got to)
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's people
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
All God's children
Spread the love, spread the love
All over the world
We've got to spread the love
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Love is the ticket, the train it will take us
No one can stop us, nobody will break us
Follow the rhythm that leads us to Heaven tonight
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