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"
Come with me now
Come with me now
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Afraid to lose control
And caught up in this world
I've wasted time, I've wasted breath
I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear
Now only this seems clear
I need to move, I need to fight
I need to lose myself tonight
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
I think with my heart and I move with my head
I open my mouth and it's something I've read
I stood at this door before, I'm told
But a part of me knows that I'm growing too old
Confused what I thought with something I felt
Confuse what I feel with something that's real
I tried to sell my soul last night
Funny, he wouldn't even take a bite
Far away
I heard him say (come with me now)
Don't delay
I heard him say (come with me now)
Far away
I heard him say (come with me now)
Don't delay
I heard him say (come with me now)
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Afraid to lose control
And caught up in this world
I've wasted time, I've wasted breath
I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear
Now only this seems clear
I need to move, I need to fight
I need to lose myself tonight
Woah come with me now
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
Come with me now
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Afraid to lose control
And caught up in this world
I've wasted time, I've wasted breath
I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear
Now only this seems clear
I need to move, I need to fight
I need to lose myself tonight
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
I think with my heart and I move with my head
I open my mouth and it's something I've read
I stood at this door before, I'm told
But a part of me knows that I'm growing too old
Confused what I thought with something I felt
Confuse what I feel with something that's real
I tried to sell my soul last night
Funny, he wouldn't even take a bite
Far away
I heard him say (come with me now)
Don't delay
I heard him say (come with me now)
Far away
I heard him say (come with me now)
Don't delay
I heard him say (come with me now)
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna show you how
Afraid to lose control
And caught up in this world
I've wasted time, I've wasted breath
I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear
Now only this seems clear
I need to move, I need to fight
I need to lose myself tonight
Woah come with me now
Woah come with me now
I'm gonna take you down
Woah come with me now
Lyrics submitted by STP1992, edited by YvetteCathers
Come with Me Now Lyrics as written by John Joseph Kongos
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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In that vein, here's what I hear in the song - the narrator's voice, and War's voice:
<i>Come with me now Come with me now</i>
War: <i>come with me now I'm gonna take you down</i>
War:<i>, come with me now I'm gonna show you how</i>
Afraid to lose control And caught up in this world I've wasted time, I've wasted breath I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear Now only this seems clear I need to move, I need to fight I need to lose myself tonight
War: <i> come with me now I'm gonna take you down Whoa, come with me now I'm gonna show you how</i>
I think with my heart and I move with my head I open my mouth and it's something I've read I stood at this door before, I'm told But a part of me knows that I'm growing too old
Confused what I thought with something I felt Confuse what I feel with something that's real I tried to sell my soul last night Funny, he wouldn't even take a bite
Far away I heard him (War) say <i>(Come with me now) Don't delay</i> I heard him say <i>(Come with me now)</i>
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Afraid to lose control And caught up in this world I've wasted time, I've wasted breath I think I've thought myself to death
I was born without this fear Now only this seems clear I need to move, I need to fight I need to lose myself tonight
War: <i> come with me now</i>
War:<i> come with me now I'm gonna take you down</i>
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