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 was just walking down the street
Looking forward to seeing the friends I was to meet
Yet what happened so tragically
Really makes for no sense at all
Suddenly two guys confronted me
Saying I was on the wrong turf, angrily
They said their colors were black but I was wearing gray
I started to turn to go back
They up and blew me away
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
Though my life they've taken
They can't take what we've shared
Spread the love I've given
And I'll be there
I was out playing with my friends
You know, doing those silly things kids do at ten
But the crossfire I was caught in
Should not have been in the first place
I dropped Monte Carlo came to a screech
Someone yelled, "Nobody gets away with dissin' me"
Across the street a man pulled his nine
Everybody started to run
A shower of bullets rang out
Mistakenly my life was done, oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
Though my life they've taken
They can't take what we've shared
Spread the love I've given
I'll be there
Oh-oh, oh-oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
When you're joyful (my love is with you where ever you are)
When you're lonely
When you're happy (my love is with you, where ever you are)
When tears are streamin' right down your face (my love is with you)
In the morning (my love is with you where ever you are)
In the noon time
In the evening (my love is with you, where ever you are)
In the wee wee hours of the nighttime hour
In the summer (my love is with you where ever you are)
In the springtime
In the autumn (my love is with you, where ever you are)
In the cold long winter, winter nights (my love is with you)
My love is with you (my love is with you where ever you are)
My love is with you my best friend (my love is with you, where ever you are)
My love is with you my brother
My love is with you my sister (my love is with you)
My love is with you my mother (my love is with you where ever you are)
My love is with you my father (my love is with you, where ever you are)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun
Senseless
"Hello, we're sorry we missed your call
But if you'll leave your name and phone number
We'll be sure to call you back
Thank you and God bless you"
Looking forward to seeing the friends I was to meet
Yet what happened so tragically
Really makes for no sense at all
Suddenly two guys confronted me
Saying I was on the wrong turf, angrily
They said their colors were black but I was wearing gray
I started to turn to go back
They up and blew me away
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
Though my life they've taken
They can't take what we've shared
Spread the love I've given
And I'll be there
I was out playing with my friends
You know, doing those silly things kids do at ten
But the crossfire I was caught in
Should not have been in the first place
I dropped Monte Carlo came to a screech
Someone yelled, "Nobody gets away with dissin' me"
Across the street a man pulled his nine
Everybody started to run
A shower of bullets rang out
Mistakenly my life was done, oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
Though my life they've taken
They can't take what we've shared
Spread the love I've given
I'll be there
Oh-oh, oh-oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with you, where ever you are (my love is with you)
When you're joyful (my love is with you where ever you are)
When you're lonely
When you're happy (my love is with you, where ever you are)
When tears are streamin' right down your face (my love is with you)
In the morning (my love is with you where ever you are)
In the noon time
In the evening (my love is with you, where ever you are)
In the wee wee hours of the nighttime hour
In the summer (my love is with you where ever you are)
In the springtime
In the autumn (my love is with you, where ever you are)
In the cold long winter, winter nights (my love is with you)
My love is with you (my love is with you where ever you are)
My love is with you my best friend (my love is with you, where ever you are)
My love is with you my brother
My love is with you my sister (my love is with you)
My love is with you my mother (my love is with you where ever you are)
My love is with you my father (my love is with you, where ever you are)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
I'm with you (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun (I'm with you)
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun
Ban the hand gun, ban the hand gun
Senseless
"Hello, we're sorry we missed your call
But if you'll leave your name and phone number
We'll be sure to call you back
Thank you and God bless you"
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