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'm in love with a girl
That I used to know
It's tearing me up inside
I miss her
Everyday of my life
I'll miss her
'Til the day I die
I've got secrets
I keep to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
But I just want you to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
Let me spell it out
To make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
I still love the girl
I used to know
It's eating me alive
I want her
Everyday of my life
I'll want her
'Til the day I die
She's the secret I keep to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
And I just want her to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
Let me spell it out to make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
Let me spell it out
So you can hear
I'm dying without you dear
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you in every way
I sit and wait for you
To come home
But you're never coming back
So I just sit here alone
By my phone
Waiting for you to tell me
Tell me that you love me
And that you'll never leave
I will say the exact same thing
I will never leave
Let me spell it out
To make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
Let me spell it out
So you can hear
I'm dying without you dear
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you in every way
That I used to know
It's tearing me up inside
I miss her
Everyday of my life
I'll miss her
'Til the day I die
I've got secrets
I keep to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
But I just want you to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
Let me spell it out
To make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
I still love the girl
I used to know
It's eating me alive
I want her
Everyday of my life
I'll want her
'Til the day I die
She's the secret I keep to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
And I just want her to myself
I won't tell anybody
No no
Let me spell it out to make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
Let me spell it out
So you can hear
I'm dying without you dear
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you in every way
I sit and wait for you
To come home
But you're never coming back
So I just sit here alone
By my phone
Waiting for you to tell me
Tell me that you love me
And that you'll never leave
I will say the exact same thing
I will never leave
Let me spell it out
To make it clear
I'm dying without you here
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you everyday
Let me spell it out
So you can hear
I'm dying without you dear
I said
I'll be just fine
But I'm not
I'm not okay
Still missing you in every way
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No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Amazing
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This song came out about the same time I discovered that the person I was married to was not the person I was in love with.
Its so sad to see this song only have 1 comment. Its such a great song, I think its the greatest song I've ever heard in my life. I wish more people would hear this song and appreciate it today.
To me, this song is about being in love with a person we shouldn't be inlove with.
Its such a beautiful song. There's no any modern songs that are as good as this. Nor there is any modern band that's as good as Heart.
This song really means a lot to me... In every way possible... This is about a Love that is never meant to happen, This song tells us of a unconventional couple caught in a situation that they themselves didn't anticipate to grow into a beautiful relationship. At first they are just looking for fun or just an escape form reality, to divert the true situation and hoping that they will forget whats really happening in the real world. But Love came and they are hooked with each other. The want to keep their relationship but how? how long? and when to give up? They have different partners for so long but they found comfort in each other in other words they are "Perfect" and bound for each other..
This song is the most beautiful ive ever listened... I hope that I can give justice to its real meaning... very sad song but its true and it really happen literally...
Hon
We lead two different lives Just like two lines that never cross And here we are together Standing closer than we are But we're still standing here untouched Too scared to make a move We want so much to touch And we can't wait forever We know it's dangerous For us to be together
How do we ever keep this secret How do we keep it in the dark And if we dare to taste our weakness How could we tear ourselves apart Why do we keep this love together Didn't we know right from the start That we would have to keep this secret
Or forever stay apart
I watch you coming to me Walking in the pouring rain I can't help looking at you Wishing I could stay away So many times I've tried in vain To close my eyes and pray it goes away But I can't stop myself from feeling
To let you go would be too much For me to take
How do we ever keep this secret How do we keep it in the dark And if we dare to taste our weakness How could we tear ourselves apart Why do we keep this love together
Didn't we know right from the start That we would have to keep this secret Or forever stay apart
I can't help thinking When I look into your eyes How much I need you It's so hard to hide How do we ever keep this secret How do we keep it in the dark And if we dare to taste our weakness How could we tear ourselves apart Why do we keep this love together Didn't we know right from the start That we would have to keep this secret Or forever stay apart