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"
You saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
I was walking alone
on the desperate sands of the twilight islands
when my dreams of love
seemed to die in the cool of the night
i was in danger of losing my soul
but then, your hand touched mine
Oh baby, you found me just in time
when the night must've fallen
shadows of fear were on my mind
my heart was crying
you saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
You lit a light in the dark
so I could find a way out
and your love
send a guardian angel to help me
and make me feel sure
that i wasn't alone
and the twilight isn't silent anymore
Oh baby, you made my mind
I see
when I thought i was dying
gone were the dreams
your touching me
and i stopped crying
You saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
You saved my soul ( x 8)
Stay (x 7)
You saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
I was walking alone
on the desperate sands of the twilight islands
when my dreams of love
seemed to die in the cool of the night
i was in danger of losing my soul
but then, your hand touched mine
Oh baby, you found me just in time
when the night must've fallen
shadows of fear were on my mind
my heart was crying
you saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
You lit a light in the dark
so I could find a way out
and your love
send a guardian angel to help me
and make me feel sure
that i wasn't alone
and the twilight isn't silent anymore
Oh baby, you made my mind
I see
when I thought i was dying
gone were the dreams
your touching me
and i stopped crying
You saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
You saved my soul ( x 8)
Stay (x 7)
You saved my soul
in the dark of the night
when i was lonely
your body touched mine so gently
stay
in the dark of the night
cause your love only
can make me feel safe forever
Lyrics submitted by living_a_lie
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