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"
I open my eyes
I see your face
I cannot hide, I can't erase
The way you make me feel inside
You complete me
Girl that's why
Somethin' about you makes me feel
Baby my heart wants to reveal
I'm down on my knees
I'm asking you
These three words I want to hear from you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
It's these three words that promise to
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you (a family)
Oh yes I will (oh baby)
This is no ordinary love
And I can never have enough (I can't enough of)
Of all the things you've given to me
You're my heart, my soul, my everything
Every night I thank you lord (I thank you lord)
For giving me the strength
To love her more and more
Each day I promise her
As long as I hear those three words
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
It's these three words that promise to
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you (a family)
Oh yes I will (oh baby)
I stand beside you
In everything you do (yes I do)
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
Baby I'll be there
Oh baby I'll be there (I'll be there for you)
As God as my witness (God as my witness)
I will carry this through (I will carry this through)
To kept to what's promised
What's promised to you
(I promised you)
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby baby baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And start a family with you (oh I will)
Yes I will (oh yeah)
Yes I will (oh yeah)
Yes I will
I promise you
That everything's gonna be alright (it's gonna be alright)
I will
I see your face
I cannot hide, I can't erase
The way you make me feel inside
You complete me
Girl that's why
Somethin' about you makes me feel
Baby my heart wants to reveal
I'm down on my knees
I'm asking you
These three words I want to hear from you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
It's these three words that promise to
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you (a family)
Oh yes I will (oh baby)
This is no ordinary love
And I can never have enough (I can't enough of)
Of all the things you've given to me
You're my heart, my soul, my everything
Every night I thank you lord (I thank you lord)
For giving me the strength
To love her more and more
Each day I promise her
As long as I hear those three words
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
It's these three words that promise to
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And someday start a family with you (a family)
Oh yes I will (oh baby)
I stand beside you
In everything you do (yes I do)
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
Baby I'll be there
Oh baby I'll be there (I'll be there for you)
As God as my witness (God as my witness)
I will carry this through (I will carry this through)
To kept to what's promised
What's promised to you
(I promised you)
Yes I will
Take your hand and walk with you
Yes I will
Baby baby baby I promise you
Yes I will
Give you everything you need
And start a family with you (oh I will)
Yes I will (oh yeah)
Yes I will (oh yeah)
Yes I will
I promise you
That everything's gonna be alright (it's gonna be alright)
I will
Lyrics submitted by cutecreativeangel
Yes I Will Lyrics as written by Brian Anthony Kierulf Alexander James Mclean
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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