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"
Well, back in the past when I was treated so coldly
My love life was a darn disgrace
Needed someone to love and hold me
That's one of the reasons that I was outta place
So, this is love, well, she finally kissed me
Had me all worked up inside
I wanted love but Cupid missed me
She up and left and I almost died
But I was young and I was far from lonely
I been that way for a long, long year
Needed a girl to call my one and only
Is that you?
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
'Cause you know I wanna be
Yours in a simple rhyme
Whoa, up, up, up
Well, ain't life grand when ya finally hit it?
I'm always a sucker for a real good time
Woke up in life, found I almost missed it
Ain't I glad that love is blind
But I was young and I was far too crazy
Been that way for a long, long time
Needed a girl but I was just too lazy
Now that I've found you
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
I'm gonna be yours in a simple rhyme, rhyme
And she made the mountains sing
Birds against an icy sky
And I heard bells ringing
I think I heard an angel sigh
She said, there'll be times
There will be times
You're gonna hear the angels singing
You're gonna hear the angels sing, they'll say
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Whoa
Oh, oh yeah, ah, whoa, yeah
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
I'm gonna be yours in a simple rhyme, rhyme, rhyme
My love life was a darn disgrace
Needed someone to love and hold me
That's one of the reasons that I was outta place
So, this is love, well, she finally kissed me
Had me all worked up inside
I wanted love but Cupid missed me
She up and left and I almost died
But I was young and I was far from lonely
I been that way for a long, long year
Needed a girl to call my one and only
Is that you?
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
'Cause you know I wanna be
Yours in a simple rhyme
Whoa, up, up, up
Well, ain't life grand when ya finally hit it?
I'm always a sucker for a real good time
Woke up in life, found I almost missed it
Ain't I glad that love is blind
But I was young and I was far too crazy
Been that way for a long, long time
Needed a girl but I was just too lazy
Now that I've found you
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
I'm gonna be yours in a simple rhyme, rhyme
And she made the mountains sing
Birds against an icy sky
And I heard bells ringing
I think I heard an angel sigh
She said, there'll be times
There will be times
You're gonna hear the angels singing
You're gonna hear the angels sing, they'll say
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Whoa
Oh, oh yeah, ah, whoa, yeah
You think you got the interest
Come on and take the time
I'm gonna be yours in a simple rhyme, rhyme, rhyme
Lyrics submitted by UseYourIllusion
In A Simple Rhyme Lyrics as written by Edward Van Halen Alex Van Halen
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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