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"
I wake up and start my everyday routine
Of working hard at feeling sorry for myself
And after lunch I close my eyes
And wish to God that I could change
But when I wake up I'm so very much myself
And I'm a long way from believing
That I'm gonna be ok
Such a long way from believing
That I'll escape this feeling that I hate
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
I wake up and start my everyday routine
Wondering what in the world I'm gonna do
'Cause things are falling into place
But I cannot appreciate them
'Cause if last I fell apart then this might do
And I'm a long way from believing
That I'm gonna be ok
Such a long way from believing
That I'll escape this feeling that I hate
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
Dimly lit by porch light
I can see your eyes
They are staring into my face
Staring into my face
I should trust what I see in them
I know the time is right
But still I'll take the easy road and wait
I've got to stop being scared
Music time it isn't fair
I could die tomorrow or today
Control is resting on my side
But knowing just would not be right
And that's not how I wanna live my life
And it's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on
Of working hard at feeling sorry for myself
And after lunch I close my eyes
And wish to God that I could change
But when I wake up I'm so very much myself
And I'm a long way from believing
That I'm gonna be ok
Such a long way from believing
That I'll escape this feeling that I hate
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
I wake up and start my everyday routine
Wondering what in the world I'm gonna do
'Cause things are falling into place
But I cannot appreciate them
'Cause if last I fell apart then this might do
And I'm a long way from believing
That I'm gonna be ok
Such a long way from believing
That I'll escape this feeling that I hate
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
Dimly lit by porch light
I can see your eyes
They are staring into my face
Staring into my face
I should trust what I see in them
I know the time is right
But still I'll take the easy road and wait
I've got to stop being scared
Music time it isn't fair
I could die tomorrow or today
Control is resting on my side
But knowing just would not be right
And that's not how I wanna live my life
And it's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on to someone
It's a miracle that we are here today
With all the pain we put ourselves through over nothing
'Cause if you think hard
You'll know soon it will be ok
And you'll be holding on to someone
Holding on
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Miracle Lyrics as written by Jerry Phillips Josh Bonner
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not a bad song.
yeah this is probly the best UZ song in my opinion.
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