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"
This is for the lovers
Strictly for the lovers yeah
You got someone you want to get close to?
Then get close to this
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Just to be close to you
Yo, drop the verse
Like a flower to a tree
That's how close I want to be
To your heart (baby to your heart, heart)
Like the stars to the night
And daytime is to light
We'll never part (we'll never part)
I want you to be (I want you to be)
The only thing that I see (ooh ooh)
'cause I believe it's our destiny
[Chorus:]
Just to be close
Just to be close
It's the only thing
That I want to do ooh
Just to be close
Just to be close
Just to be close to you
Just to be close
So lonely is the night
Wihout you to hold me tight
(I want to hold you closer)
I need you
(Baby hold me closer, closer)
My life would mean nothing
Without the joy you bring to me
You know, you know, you know
There would never be
No one else for me
You are like a dream that became reality
[Chorus]
I'm gonna give you all my love
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give it to you all my love (all my love)
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give it to you
Give you everything you need (all my love)
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give you all you want
To be close to you (to be close to you)
Close to you (close to you)
[Chorus]
I don't want to be alone
I'll never never never ever let you go
Just want to be close to you
I don't want to be alone
Girl I'll never never never ever let you go
Just to be close
There'll never be (never be)
No one else for me
You are like a dream that became reality
[Chorus]
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
I just want to be close
To you
Strictly for the lovers yeah
You got someone you want to get close to?
Then get close to this
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Just to be close to you
Yo, drop the verse
Like a flower to a tree
That's how close I want to be
To your heart (baby to your heart, heart)
Like the stars to the night
And daytime is to light
We'll never part (we'll never part)
I want you to be (I want you to be)
The only thing that I see (ooh ooh)
'cause I believe it's our destiny
[Chorus:]
Just to be close
Just to be close
It's the only thing
That I want to do ooh
Just to be close
Just to be close
Just to be close to you
Just to be close
So lonely is the night
Wihout you to hold me tight
(I want to hold you closer)
I need you
(Baby hold me closer, closer)
My life would mean nothing
Without the joy you bring to me
You know, you know, you know
There would never be
No one else for me
You are like a dream that became reality
[Chorus]
I'm gonna give you all my love
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give it to you all my love (all my love)
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give it to you
Give you everything you need (all my love)
I'm gonna give it to you
I'm gonna give you all you want
To be close to you (to be close to you)
Close to you (close to you)
[Chorus]
I don't want to be alone
I'll never never never ever let you go
Just want to be close to you
I don't want to be alone
Girl I'll never never never ever let you go
Just to be close
There'll never be (never be)
No one else for me
You are like a dream that became reality
[Chorus]
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
I just want to be close
To you
Lyrics submitted by cutecreativeangel
Just To Be Close To You Lyrics as written by Michael Gray Tim Gant
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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like a flower to a tree, thats how close i wanna be to your heart. hahahhahaha. lmao.