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"
There you were last night, sitting close to her by candlelight
I couldn't let you see my crying eyes but I wanted so bad to run to you
How could you find someone in just so little time
We said we'd be friends maybe one day, give us one more try
I can't understand, it happened so fast, six months have passed
Now suddenly you've gotten over me
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together forever won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
I'm trying so hard not to care but you're happy now and it's not fair
Just when I thought that I was getting strong, I see you with her
I was wrong
Now I can pretend that losing you, didn't mean a thing
And I can deny that this whole thing's not happening
To hold it inside, it's killing me, it's hurting me
If you could only see
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together, forever won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together, forever, it won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends, oh
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
It hurts when, ooh, ooh
It hurts when I see you, I see you with her
It hurts when my broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you
I couldn't let you see my crying eyes but I wanted so bad to run to you
How could you find someone in just so little time
We said we'd be friends maybe one day, give us one more try
I can't understand, it happened so fast, six months have passed
Now suddenly you've gotten over me
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together forever won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
I'm trying so hard not to care but you're happy now and it's not fair
Just when I thought that I was getting strong, I see you with her
I was wrong
Now I can pretend that losing you, didn't mean a thing
And I can deny that this whole thing's not happening
To hold it inside, it's killing me, it's hurting me
If you could only see
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together, forever won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
It hurts when I thought I had gotten over you
It hurts when together, forever, it won't come true
It hurts when one broken heart is how it ends, oh
'Cause it hurts to know that you are in love again
It hurts when, ooh, ooh
It hurts when I see you, I see you with her
It hurts when my broken heart is how it ends
'Cause it hurts to know that you
Lyrics submitted by SexyJaxilyn7
It Hurts When... Lyrics as written by Montell Jordan Bernard Edwards
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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