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"
(Yeah, look at you)
Look at you
You look fine
How do you do
Been a while since alone in your room (room)
Been around, but haven't found
No one like you (no one like you)
Don't you know girl
There's no one like you
And you hear me
Hear my emotions creep slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Now with your soul tell me
Silently
Tell me (you) know each thought without a word
You see me through (you see me through)
Sorry now (sorry now) that I ever doubted you
I don't know what I can do
To make you come true
Think that you should know
There's no one like you and how you are
Your mind and heart
Nine times the soul (ooh)
Nine times the soul
There's no one like you
Can you hear me (hear me baby)
(emotions) Scream slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Now with your soul tell me
Silently
Tell me
Silently
Ahh baby
(me)
Love the way you (ho)
With your mind lady (ho)
My body soul (ho)
If you ain't told
You got to know
I'm willin' to show you if you want to know
(know me)
Hear my emotions scream slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Hear intertwine scremin'
Silently
Screamin' silently
(don't you scream)
You're my divine
(don't you scream)
Slowly
(touch you, hear what you want baby)
Don't speak
Say with your heart (say it to me)
Silently
Tell me
Silently
(woo-woo-woo-wooo)
Silently
(me)
Look at you
You look fine
How do you do
Been a while since alone in your room (room)
Been around, but haven't found
No one like you (no one like you)
Don't you know girl
There's no one like you
And you hear me
Hear my emotions creep slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Now with your soul tell me
Silently
Tell me (you) know each thought without a word
You see me through (you see me through)
Sorry now (sorry now) that I ever doubted you
I don't know what I can do
To make you come true
Think that you should know
There's no one like you and how you are
Your mind and heart
Nine times the soul (ooh)
Nine times the soul
There's no one like you
Can you hear me (hear me baby)
(emotions) Scream slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Now with your soul tell me
Silently
Tell me
Silently
Ahh baby
(me)
Love the way you (ho)
With your mind lady (ho)
My body soul (ho)
If you ain't told
You got to know
I'm willin' to show you if you want to know
(know me)
Hear my emotions scream slowly
Hear with your heart, baby
Don't speak
Hear intertwine scremin'
Silently
Screamin' silently
(don't you scream)
You're my divine
(don't you scream)
Slowly
(touch you, hear what you want baby)
Don't speak
Say with your heart (say it to me)
Silently
Tell me
Silently
(woo-woo-woo-wooo)
Silently
(me)
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Silently Lyrics as written by Maxwell Menard Hod David
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network
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man this has got to be one of his greatest. i def agree with u lyrical about the whole foreplay thing. my fav line is "dont u know girl, theres no one like you"...that just melts me. this song reminds me of finding that special person that knows your everythought without a word even being spoken...so rare. "sorry now, that i EVER doubted you" is a great line as well
I love Maxwell... and this song (with its sexual, illusive tempo and beat) is highly sensual. I love the lyrics because they fit the music and his voice very well. It's like foreplay a little bit...; kind of like you're about to get swept off of your feet. Beautiful song.
man this has got to be one of his greatest. i def agree with u lyrical about the whole foreplay thing. my fav line is "dont u know girl, theres no one like you"...that just melts me. this song reminds me of finding that special person that knows your everythought without a word even being spoken...so rare. "sorry now, that i EVER doubted you" is a great line as well