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"
Now love is all I've got
I can't live
Love is all I've got
Only love in my life
Love is all
Love is all I've got now
Love is all I've got
I can't live
Love is all I've got
Only love in my life
Love is all
Love is all I've got
Love is all I've got lived
Trust love will come down on earth
And save us all
Love is all I've got
I can live with everything I've lost
'Cause love will come to save us all
So save us all
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got.
We can soar with soul in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
My darling I can give you what you want if what you want is love
Darling I can give you what you want
If what you want is love
So save us all
I can give you what you want
If all that you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
So save us all
I can give you what you want
If all that you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
I can give you what you want
If what you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
I can't live
Love is all I've got
Only love in my life
Love is all
Love is all I've got now
Love is all I've got
I can't live
Love is all I've got
Only love in my life
Love is all
Love is all I've got
Love is all I've got lived
Trust love will come down on earth
And save us all
Love is all I've got
I can live with everything I've lost
'Cause love will come to save us all
So save us all
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got.
We can soar with soul in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
My darling I can give you what you want if what you want is love
Darling I can give you what you want
If what you want is love
So save us all
I can give you what you want
If all that you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
'Cause love is all I've got
We can soar with love in the morning
Feed your soul with love to the evening
Expand your soul with love on the weekend
So save us all
I can give you what you want
If all that you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
I can give you what you want
If what you want is love
And baby I can give you what you need
If all that you need is my love
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Love Is All I Got Lyrics as written by Sebastian Robert Lloyd Pringle Jonathan Barry Gooch
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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