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"
Young girl, don't cry
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall
Oh
Young girl, it's alright
Your tears will dry, you'll soon be free to fly, ooh
When you're safe inside your room, you tend to dream
Of a place where nothing's harder than it seems
No one ever wants or bothers to explain
Of the heartache life can bring and what it means
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within, oh
Young girl, don't hide
You'll never change if you just run away
Ooh, whoa yeah
Young girl, just hold tight
Soon you're gonna see your brighter day, oh
Now in a world where innocence is quickly claimed
It's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraid
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
When you look outside, look inside to your soul
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
If you will learn to begin to trust the voice within
Oh, ho, yeah
Ooh, oh, yea (ooh, ooh, ooh) oh, yeah
Life is a journey (ooh, ooh,ooh)
It can take you anywhere you choose to go (ooh, ooh, ooh)
As long as you're learning (ooh, ooh, ooh)
You'll find all you'll ever need to know (ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Be strong)
Break it (hold on)
You'll make it (be strong)
Just don't forsake it because (hold on)
(No one can tell you what you can't do)
No one can stop you, you know that I'm talking to you
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within
Ooh, yeah young girl, don't cry, I'll be right here
When your world starts to fall
Yeah
Aah
Yeah
(Listen)
Oh yeah
(Listen)
Na na na (listen, listen)
Oh yeah (listen)
Hmm yeah (listen)
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall
Oh
Young girl, it's alright
Your tears will dry, you'll soon be free to fly, ooh
When you're safe inside your room, you tend to dream
Of a place where nothing's harder than it seems
No one ever wants or bothers to explain
Of the heartache life can bring and what it means
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within, oh
Young girl, don't hide
You'll never change if you just run away
Ooh, whoa yeah
Young girl, just hold tight
Soon you're gonna see your brighter day, oh
Now in a world where innocence is quickly claimed
It's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraid
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
When you look outside, look inside to your soul
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
If you will learn to begin to trust the voice within
Oh, ho, yeah
Ooh, oh, yea (ooh, ooh, ooh) oh, yeah
Life is a journey (ooh, ooh,ooh)
It can take you anywhere you choose to go (ooh, ooh, ooh)
As long as you're learning (ooh, ooh, ooh)
You'll find all you'll ever need to know (ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Be strong)
Break it (hold on)
You'll make it (be strong)
Just don't forsake it because (hold on)
(No one can tell you what you can't do)
No one can stop you, you know that I'm talking to you
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within
Ooh, yeah young girl, don't cry, I'll be right here
When your world starts to fall
Yeah
Aah
Yeah
(Listen)
Oh yeah
(Listen)
Na na na (listen, listen)
Oh yeah (listen)
Hmm yeah (listen)
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When people say bad things to you, don't listen to them. All you have to remember is TRUST THE VOICE WITHIN. And have someone nice on your side.
@MusicLover121491 Your Right about that i always have to learn to Trust THE VOICE within no matter what other people say about you
This song is extremely inspiring to me. Like, at those times when you feel so alone and no one wants to listen, this song will bring your spirits up because it
s like Christina is your friend and shes being there for you. Really, really good stuff.The first time I heard this song I started to cry, because at the time I had a really bad drug problem and it was like a bottomless pit i was forever falling through. . .and my world was lost and broken. The song means exactly what it is saying. . .and in a cheezy way it comforted me when I had no where else to turn.
Christina sounds AMAZING in this song. It's an anthem for anyone whos ever been the outcast. It's about finding the person that you can be without selling out all you have to do is trust the voice within
Istead of listening to the voices in your head, listen to your heart and what it's telling you and if you do, everything will be okay. Trust it and things will fall into place.
if there's ever a day when you've lost yourself & you feel completely lonely, you need to listen to this song. it will makes things seem 10x better.
Good song. Telling you to love yourself and not to let anyone get you down.
this song is called the voice within. why is it that when i try to get these lyrics somewhere they always have 2, A voice within and THE voice within. the CD has it as THE voice within.
anycrap, this song is just about trusting your inner voice and not listening to anyone else.
I started to respect Christina a little when I heard this song.
This song is soo beautiful shes got such an amazing voice i luv it x She sings it with such passion its rele cool x luvs it ever since i heard it on her album x gald she released it xxx