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"
Just to be close to you, girl
Just for a moment, well just for an hour
Just to be close to you, girl
Oh well ah baby
Ah you know I've been through so many changes in my life girl
Aw I've been up real high where I thought I didn't need anybody
Aw and then again I've been down real low where
There was no one in my life who needed me
Aw and I found that material things I, I thought had so much value
Aw girl didn't really have any value at all
That I was a lonely man
A man with no direction, with no purpose
With no one to love and no one to love me for, for me
Aw girl then you, then you came into my life
You made my jagged edges smooth
You made my, you made my direction so clear and you aw woman
You became my purpose my reason for livin' girl
You see you're my heart, you're soul
You're my stone inspiration, baby
Oh that's why I'm standin' here singin'
And opening my arms to you
I want to say child why don't ya
Take my hand
Ah we'll live in love forever
Yeah take my hand ooh,
We'll be alone you and me yeah
Take my hand
Girl we'll live our lives together, yeah together
Together yeah, ah ah together, together
Just to be close to you girl
Just for the moment baby, well, just for an hour
Just to be close to you girl, hey, hey ooh, ooh
I've been out there searchin' so very long baby
Searchin' to find somebody just like you
And for some folks it takes a lifetime, sugar
To find in this world a dream come true
Why don't ya
Take my hand
Oh, we'll live in love forever, yeah
Take my hand
Girl, we'll be alone you and me
Take my hand
We'll spend our lives together,
Together, together, ah ah together, together
Just to be close to you, girl
Just for the moment, ah just for the moment
Ah, just for the hour
Just to be close to you, girl
I need you baby
To make love, to be loved by you baby
To have your warm body close to mine
To whisper words that make you feel like a woman
Girl I know our love will stand the test of time
Just to be close to you, girl
For the moment baby, for the moment baby
For the moment baby
For the sugar, sugar, yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Hey girl I wanna say
Closer and closer, girl please hold me closer
My arms are still burnin'
Girl you got me yearnin' for your love
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Just for a moment, well just for an hour
Just to be close to you, girl
Oh well ah baby
Ah you know I've been through so many changes in my life girl
Aw I've been up real high where I thought I didn't need anybody
Aw and then again I've been down real low where
There was no one in my life who needed me
Aw and I found that material things I, I thought had so much value
Aw girl didn't really have any value at all
That I was a lonely man
A man with no direction, with no purpose
With no one to love and no one to love me for, for me
Aw girl then you, then you came into my life
You made my jagged edges smooth
You made my, you made my direction so clear and you aw woman
You became my purpose my reason for livin' girl
You see you're my heart, you're soul
You're my stone inspiration, baby
Oh that's why I'm standin' here singin'
And opening my arms to you
I want to say child why don't ya
Take my hand
Ah we'll live in love forever
Yeah take my hand ooh,
We'll be alone you and me yeah
Take my hand
Girl we'll live our lives together, yeah together
Together yeah, ah ah together, together
Just to be close to you girl
Just for the moment baby, well, just for an hour
Just to be close to you girl, hey, hey ooh, ooh
I've been out there searchin' so very long baby
Searchin' to find somebody just like you
And for some folks it takes a lifetime, sugar
To find in this world a dream come true
Why don't ya
Take my hand
Oh, we'll live in love forever, yeah
Take my hand
Girl, we'll be alone you and me
Take my hand
We'll spend our lives together,
Together, together, ah ah together, together
Just to be close to you, girl
Just for the moment, ah just for the moment
Ah, just for the hour
Just to be close to you, girl
I need you baby
To make love, to be loved by you baby
To have your warm body close to mine
To whisper words that make you feel like a woman
Girl I know our love will stand the test of time
Just to be close to you, girl
For the moment baby, for the moment baby
For the moment baby
For the sugar, sugar, yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Hey girl I wanna say
Closer and closer, girl please hold me closer
My arms are still burnin'
Girl you got me yearnin' for your love
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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