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"
He made the night, He made the day
Spread the earth upon the waters
Made the heavens and the rain
Look at the sky, see His design
The very same Creator is the one who gave us life
And what is man that He's mindful of us
We're merely clay in His hands
And what am I that He loves me so much
He would die
All that I can say is,
It's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Inside us all there is a void
All mankind is searching
For the one who fills the soul
In Him there's hope, in Him there's life
The Lord Christ the Saviour
Is right before your eyes
And what is man that He takes us in
As His children, to be His own
And what are we that He wants to be our Father?
All that I can say is
It's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Lord I praise You for Your endless love
Your boundless grace extended to me
God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
It's God, truly God
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Spread the earth upon the waters
Made the heavens and the rain
Look at the sky, see His design
The very same Creator is the one who gave us life
And what is man that He's mindful of us
We're merely clay in His hands
And what am I that He loves me so much
He would die
All that I can say is,
It's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Inside us all there is a void
All mankind is searching
For the one who fills the soul
In Him there's hope, in Him there's life
The Lord Christ the Saviour
Is right before your eyes
And what is man that He takes us in
As His children, to be His own
And what are we that He wants to be our Father?
All that I can say is
It's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Lord I praise You for Your endless love
Your boundless grace extended to me
God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
Can you see, can you hear
Can you touch, can you feel
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God, truly God
It's God, truly God
It's God, truly God
I can't explain any other way
'Cause it's God
Lyrics submitted by ninjakitty1
God Lyrics as written by Ian Hunter
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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