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"
So now I've been forced to give advice
On a matter in which now I've become involved
Should I stop my thoughts and close my eyes
Play the lover's role in the beggar's disguise
And beg God to give me
Solomon's wisdom
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ran into a love affair without even looking down
You said your conscious ails you
You said your mind's not clear
Wrap you up in a summer's day
Take your mind out of here
Take your mind straight out of here, la la la
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Well I guess that's just the way it goes
Thought I had you trapped up darling
Thought I had you wrapped around my finger, baby
la la la la, la la la la
I was wrong, baby, now I was wrong
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and you give it up to me now
You know that you're the one I want
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and give it up to me now
Cause you know you're the one I want
You're the one I want
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and give it up to me now
You know that you're the one I want
You're the one I want
On a matter in which now I've become involved
Should I stop my thoughts and close my eyes
Play the lover's role in the beggar's disguise
And beg God to give me
Solomon's wisdom
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ran into a love affair without even looking down
You said your conscious ails you
You said your mind's not clear
Wrap you up in a summer's day
Take your mind out of here
Take your mind straight out of here, la la la
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Well I guess that's just the way it goes
Thought I had you trapped up darling
Thought I had you wrapped around my finger, baby
la la la la, la la la la
I was wrong, baby, now I was wrong
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Knowing that I
Loved you twice as well as he could
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and you give it up to me now
You know that you're the one I want
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and give it up to me now
Cause you know you're the one I want
You're the one I want
Slow down, and give it up to me
Slow down when you talk to me baby
Slow down, and give it up to me now
You know that you're the one I want
You're the one I want
Lyrics submitted by tophergannon
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I love this song. It's one of the few songs that I can listen to and never tire of. It seems clear to me that it's a guy apostrophizing to somone he loves. He has been asked to give this girl advice on another guy. Now, the singer cannot decide what to say, knowing that it is not this new guy who belongs with her, but himself.
Yeah, that's pretty obviously what it's about, I agree.
Wanted to correct some lyrics. It's supposed to be "Knowing that I COULD love you twice as well as he could"