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"
Pack your bags, baby
We have to go back, let's go
It's summer paradise, oh-oh-oh-oh
Simple Plan, MKTO
My heart is sinking as I'm lifting up
Up above the clouds away from you
And I can't believe I'm leaving
Oh, I don't kno-kno-know what I'm gonna do
But someday, I will find my way back
To where your name is written in the sand
(Yeah, it was written in the sand)
'Cause I remember every sunset (that's right)
I remember every word you said (I remember)
We were never gonna say goodbye
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (yeah)
Back to summer paradise with you
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (yeah) (oh-oh, oh-oh)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (say what?)
My soul is broken, streets are frozen
I can't stop these feelings melting through
(I can't stop these feelings melting through)
And I'd give away a thousand days, oh
Just to have another one with you (with you, yeah)
Well, real life can wait (hey, if time stands still)
We're crashing like waves (crashing like waves)
We're playing in the sand (that's how I do it, girl)
Holding your hand ('cause I remember, I remember, like)
'Cause I remember every sunset (I remember)
I remember every word you said
We were never gonna say goodbye (don't cry)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to
Back to summer paradise with you (summer paradise)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (what?)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh
Yeah, love, ha (oh-oh, oh-oh)
If I could be with you then, baby
We could do what the heart wants
Smiling on a desert island
Baby, let's get so lost (so lost)
Beads are in the heartbeat
Kiss realities goodbye (goodbye)
Girl, you get me high
Underneath the palm trees in the sky
That's fly
Like every day's a holiday, a summer paradise
I'm smashing down the highway
Following the stars for light
A Simple Plan for life is what you make it
The memories of you and me are ours
For the taking (ours for the taking)
Someday, I will find my way back
To where your name is written in the sand
(It's written in the sand)
(We'll be forever, baby)
'Cause I remember every sunset (I remember)
I remember every word you said
We were never gonna say goodbye (why say goodbye?)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (how to get back)
Back to summer paradise with you
And I'll be there in a heartbeat
I remember when we first kissed (woo)
And how I didn't wanna leave your lips
And how I've never ever felt so high (so high)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (yeah)
Back to summer paradise with you (hey)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (yeah) (oh-oh, oh-oh)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (summer paradise, baby)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (believe that)
We have to go back, let's go
It's summer paradise, oh-oh-oh-oh
Simple Plan, MKTO
My heart is sinking as I'm lifting up
Up above the clouds away from you
And I can't believe I'm leaving
Oh, I don't kno-kno-know what I'm gonna do
But someday, I will find my way back
To where your name is written in the sand
(Yeah, it was written in the sand)
'Cause I remember every sunset (that's right)
I remember every word you said (I remember)
We were never gonna say goodbye
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (yeah)
Back to summer paradise with you
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (yeah) (oh-oh, oh-oh)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (say what?)
My soul is broken, streets are frozen
I can't stop these feelings melting through
(I can't stop these feelings melting through)
And I'd give away a thousand days, oh
Just to have another one with you (with you, yeah)
Well, real life can wait (hey, if time stands still)
We're crashing like waves (crashing like waves)
We're playing in the sand (that's how I do it, girl)
Holding your hand ('cause I remember, I remember, like)
'Cause I remember every sunset (I remember)
I remember every word you said
We were never gonna say goodbye (don't cry)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to
Back to summer paradise with you (summer paradise)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (what?)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh
Yeah, love, ha (oh-oh, oh-oh)
If I could be with you then, baby
We could do what the heart wants
Smiling on a desert island
Baby, let's get so lost (so lost)
Beads are in the heartbeat
Kiss realities goodbye (goodbye)
Girl, you get me high
Underneath the palm trees in the sky
That's fly
Like every day's a holiday, a summer paradise
I'm smashing down the highway
Following the stars for light
A Simple Plan for life is what you make it
The memories of you and me are ours
For the taking (ours for the taking)
Someday, I will find my way back
To where your name is written in the sand
(It's written in the sand)
(We'll be forever, baby)
'Cause I remember every sunset (I remember)
I remember every word you said
We were never gonna say goodbye (why say goodbye?)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (how to get back)
Back to summer paradise with you
And I'll be there in a heartbeat
I remember when we first kissed (woo)
And how I didn't wanna leave your lips
And how I've never ever felt so high (so high)
Singing la-da-da-da-da
Tell me how to get back to (yeah)
Back to summer paradise with you (hey)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (yeah) (oh-oh, oh-oh)
And I'll be there in a heartbeat (yeah, and we'll be there)
Oh-oh (oh-oh, oh-oh) (summer paradise, baby)
I'll be there in a heartbeat (believe that)
Lyrics submitted by strychninetwitch, edited by megan11276
Summer Paradise Lyrics as written by Evan Kidd Bogart Malcolm David Kelly
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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