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"
My heart
These words are my own
(Uh, yeah, uh)
Threw some chords together
The combination, D-E-F
It's who I am, it's what I do (yeah, uh)
And I was gonna lay it down for you
I'm try to focus my attention
But I feel so A-D-D
I need some help, some inspiration (but it's not coming easily)
(Whoa) Tryna find the magic
(Whoa) Tryna write a classic
(Whoa) Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? (Whoa, whoa)
Waste bin full of paper (whoa)
Clever rhymes, see you later
These words are my own
From my heart flow (yeah, uh)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way
To better say
I love you, I love you, I love you (ah)
Read some Byron, Shelly, and Keats
Recited it over a hip-hop beat
I'm having trouble saying what I mean (uh)
With dead poets and drum machines
You know I had some studio time booked
But I couldn't find the killer hook
Now you've gone and raised the bar right up
Nothing I write is ever good enough
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (from my heart flow)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way (there's no other way)
To better say (uh)
I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (yeah)
(I love you) I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
There's no other way (there's no other way)
To better say
I love you, I love you, I love you
I'm getting off my stage
The curtains pull away
No hyperbole to hide behind
My naked soul exposes (love you, love you)
Whoa, oh
Whoa, whoa
(Whoa) Tryna find the magic
(Whoa) Tryna write a classic
(Whoa) Waste bin full of paper
Clever rhymes, see you later (yeah, uh)
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (don't you know?)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way (there's no other way, to better say)
To better say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (they are from my heart, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
There's no other way (there's no better way)
To better say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you
These words are my own
They're from my heart (my heart)
(Yeah, uh)
I love you, I love you
That's all I got to say
Can't think of a better way
And that's all I got to say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, is that okay?
These words are my own
(Uh, yeah, uh)
Threw some chords together
The combination, D-E-F
It's who I am, it's what I do (yeah, uh)
And I was gonna lay it down for you
I'm try to focus my attention
But I feel so A-D-D
I need some help, some inspiration (but it's not coming easily)
(Whoa) Tryna find the magic
(Whoa) Tryna write a classic
(Whoa) Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? (Whoa, whoa)
Waste bin full of paper (whoa)
Clever rhymes, see you later
These words are my own
From my heart flow (yeah, uh)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way
To better say
I love you, I love you, I love you (ah)
Read some Byron, Shelly, and Keats
Recited it over a hip-hop beat
I'm having trouble saying what I mean (uh)
With dead poets and drum machines
You know I had some studio time booked
But I couldn't find the killer hook
Now you've gone and raised the bar right up
Nothing I write is ever good enough
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (from my heart flow)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way (there's no other way)
To better say (uh)
I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (yeah)
(I love you) I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
There's no other way (there's no other way)
To better say
I love you, I love you, I love you
I'm getting off my stage
The curtains pull away
No hyperbole to hide behind
My naked soul exposes (love you, love you)
Whoa, oh
Whoa, whoa
(Whoa) Tryna find the magic
(Whoa) Tryna write a classic
(Whoa) Waste bin full of paper
Clever rhymes, see you later (yeah, uh)
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (don't you know?)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way (there's no other way, to better say)
To better say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you
These words are my own (these words are my own)
From my heart flow (they are from my heart, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you (I love you)
There's no other way (there's no better way)
To better say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, I love you, I love you
These words are my own
They're from my heart (my heart)
(Yeah, uh)
I love you, I love you
That's all I got to say
Can't think of a better way
And that's all I got to say (yeah, uh, yeah)
I love you, is that okay?
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anyway, can we stop the sarcasm and go onto the serious stuff? I thought it was a pretty cool idea for a song, she's saying she tried to write a love song for this guy, but she couldn't find all these complicated words to tell him how she feels, so all she's gonna say is "I love you". Simple but effective.
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This is an awesome song. its about love yall!
REALLY?? About love?!... Who would of thought...
oooooooooooooooooooh! i love this song, it's so bright and colourful, always makes me happy =) i especially like the i love you i love you part.
it's really cool! it makes me dance...
stvarno je super. tera me da igram...
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it's really cool! it makes me dance...
stvarno je super. tera me da igram...
tamara
it's about love?! I thought it was about pies!
goes into a corner and cries as all her dreams have been shattered
you don't say!!! About love?" Who knew(insert serious sarcasm)