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"
So you run away
Told you all these things
And yet you couldn't stay
Wouldn't even stop to give the time of day
And everything I said won't make these things okay
Cause all I have to say is
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
You smile at me
And wave to me
I know exactly where and what I want to be
And if I wait for this
So run away
What were all the times we could have had that day
Everybody knows that we would be okay
What they say should never matter anyway
So all I have to say is
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
You smile at me
And wave to me
I know exactly where and what I want to be
And if I wish for this
Told you all these things
And yet you couldn't stay
Wouldn't even stop to give the time of day
And everything I said won't make these things okay
Cause all I have to say is
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
You smile at me
And wave to me
I know exactly where and what I want to be
And if I wait for this
So run away
What were all the times we could have had that day
Everybody knows that we would be okay
What they say should never matter anyway
So all I have to say is
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
Girl you mean
So much to me
I wish that I
Could make you see
The way you wanted me to be
Is just as easy as 1-2-3
Across the world
So far away
I knew the words to make you stay
Of course it's what I didn't say
Still I knew the words to make you stay
You smile at me
And wave to me
I know exactly where and what I want to be
And if I wish for this
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Relive the Magic...Bring the Magic Home Lyrics as written by James Dewees
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