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've been waiting for you
No, please, don't say anything
There's something I need to say to you
Remember
When I said someday we'd be together
Well, someday is tonight
Here we are, just you and me
Got something for you, baby
Wait and see
No need to worry, come follow me
I don't want you to think about anything else tonight
We've been together for quite some time
Now I know that your love is mine
No more fantasizing of how it would be
'Cause tonight all your dreams come true
Ready to give all my love
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight
Let me make your dreams come true
Don't hold back
Someday is tonight
You know I promised
I'd be worth the wait
Now the wait is over, baby
Please don't hesitate
Boy, you make me tremble
With your warm caress
I never knew I could feel this way
No more fantasizing
You'll ever have to do
'Cause tonight, baby
All your dreams come true
Ooh, I want you so bad, I can taste it
Mmm, I'm yours if you want me
Ready to give all my love (ready to give it)
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight (ooh, ooh)
Let me make your dreams come true (dreams come true)
Don't hold back
Someday is tonight (mmm, oh, baby, ooh, baby)
Ready to give all my love (ooh)
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight (someday is tonight)
Let me make your dreams come true (let me make)
Don't hold back (let me make)
Someday is tonight (let me make your dreams come true, oh, yeah)
Right now
No, please, don't say anything
There's something I need to say to you
Remember
When I said someday we'd be together
Well, someday is tonight
Here we are, just you and me
Got something for you, baby
Wait and see
No need to worry, come follow me
I don't want you to think about anything else tonight
We've been together for quite some time
Now I know that your love is mine
No more fantasizing of how it would be
'Cause tonight all your dreams come true
Ready to give all my love
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight
Let me make your dreams come true
Don't hold back
Someday is tonight
You know I promised
I'd be worth the wait
Now the wait is over, baby
Please don't hesitate
Boy, you make me tremble
With your warm caress
I never knew I could feel this way
No more fantasizing
You'll ever have to do
'Cause tonight, baby
All your dreams come true
Ooh, I want you so bad, I can taste it
Mmm, I'm yours if you want me
Ready to give all my love (ready to give it)
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight (ooh, ooh)
Let me make your dreams come true (dreams come true)
Don't hold back
Someday is tonight (mmm, oh, baby, ooh, baby)
Ready to give all my love (ooh)
Won't hold back
Someday is tonight (someday is tonight)
Let me make your dreams come true (let me make)
Don't hold back (let me make)
Someday is tonight (let me make your dreams come true, oh, yeah)
Right now
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