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"
Though I know you are asleep
I whisper to your ear
Words that would make you feel
Like the night when we first kissed
Tracing shadows around your lips
I thought I felt a smile
...Or can you hear me say
That I'm in love with you?
You don't have to, you don't need to
Tend to me when I feel ill
Make me tea, bring me a blankie
Or give me headache pills
You don't have to but you still do
Wait for me until I get home
Say you missed me, hug and kiss me
Say you thought of me all day
You don't have to, you don't need to
Say you love me every way
At the red lights kiss my day bright
Take all my stress away
When the day falls into night
In one another's arms
Is when I start to dream
Of all those little things
You do out of the blue
You do to make me smile
All of those little things you do
Is why I'm so in love with you
I don't have to, I don't need to
Open doors to let you in
Bring you something when you need it
Just to make that sweet face grin
I don't have to, but I still do
Try my best to make you blush
Sneeze, I bless you; Hurt, caress you
Give you a raspberry
I don't have to, I don't need to
Say I love you 10 times a day
Rub your neck when you are driving
Or with your hair I'll play
When the day falls into night
In one another's arms
Is when you start to dream
Of all those little things
I do out of the blue
I do to make you smile
All of those little things I do
Is why you love like you do
I whisper to your ear
Words that would make you feel
Like the night when we first kissed
Tracing shadows around your lips
I thought I felt a smile
...Or can you hear me say
That I'm in love with you?
You don't have to, you don't need to
Tend to me when I feel ill
Make me tea, bring me a blankie
Or give me headache pills
You don't have to but you still do
Wait for me until I get home
Say you missed me, hug and kiss me
Say you thought of me all day
You don't have to, you don't need to
Say you love me every way
At the red lights kiss my day bright
Take all my stress away
When the day falls into night
In one another's arms
Is when I start to dream
Of all those little things
You do out of the blue
You do to make me smile
All of those little things you do
Is why I'm so in love with you
I don't have to, I don't need to
Open doors to let you in
Bring you something when you need it
Just to make that sweet face grin
I don't have to, but I still do
Try my best to make you blush
Sneeze, I bless you; Hurt, caress you
Give you a raspberry
I don't have to, I don't need to
Say I love you 10 times a day
Rub your neck when you are driving
Or with your hair I'll play
When the day falls into night
In one another's arms
Is when you start to dream
Of all those little things
I do out of the blue
I do to make you smile
All of those little things I do
Is why you love like you do
Lyrics submitted by EnjOy IncUbus
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