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"
Well you sold my heart
And I'll get it back
But look me in the eye, baby
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
Well I've walked this world
Thought time's no more
And after all this walking
They've still got me crawling on the floor
Crawling on the floor
And out of this world
Keeps on turning
Keeps me yearning
How can you turn and walk away?
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back?
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
Well I find you sad
But I shatter like broken glass
But I thought we would be different, baby
Yeah, I thought we would last
Yeah, I thought we would last
And out of this world
Keeps on standing
Every minute that you're in me
How can you turn and walk away
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
I might not believe me baby
Don't lead me on
With loving like yours
Believe me I'm better off,
I'm better off alone
Well I was your gypsy
Throwing diamonds at your feet
Drifted around you like a satellite
I gave you everything you need
Everything you need
I know this world keeps on turning
Keeps me yearning and yearning
How can you turn and walk away
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you
How can you just break away
Why can't you find the words to say
Love is something you can't forget
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
How can you throw us away
Look at what you lost today
Now everything's a shade of gray
Now you're pushing me away
Say all the things you need to say
Thought we were going all the way
Play all the games you want to play
Sooner we'll stay away
And I'll get it back
But look me in the eye, baby
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
Well I've walked this world
Thought time's no more
And after all this walking
They've still got me crawling on the floor
Crawling on the floor
And out of this world
Keeps on turning
Keeps me yearning
How can you turn and walk away?
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back?
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
Well I find you sad
But I shatter like broken glass
But I thought we would be different, baby
Yeah, I thought we would last
Yeah, I thought we would last
And out of this world
Keeps on standing
Every minute that you're in me
How can you turn and walk away
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
I might not believe me baby
Don't lead me on
With loving like yours
Believe me I'm better off,
I'm better off alone
Well I was your gypsy
Throwing diamonds at your feet
Drifted around you like a satellite
I gave you everything you need
Everything you need
I know this world keeps on turning
Keeps me yearning and yearning
How can you turn and walk away
Pretending everything's okay
How can you turn your back
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you
How can you just break away
Why can't you find the words to say
Love is something you can't forget
Tell me why you love me like that
Why you love me like that
How can you throw us away
Look at what you lost today
Now everything's a shade of gray
Now you're pushing me away
Say all the things you need to say
Thought we were going all the way
Play all the games you want to play
Sooner we'll stay away
Lyrics submitted by ruben, edited by mulberry13
Love Me Like That Lyrics as written by Michelle Branch John Shanks
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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