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"
Father can You hear me
We need Your love today
I know that You are listening
You hear me everyday
Father please hear us
And we will be OK
Father we need You to heal families today
Father can You hear me
I'm calling on Your name
Not Buddha nor Muhammad
But it's Jesus we cry out loud
Father just forgive us
Hear us when we say
We'll give ya, give ya, give You everything
Our lives and souls today
Father You know we need it
I've never seen so much pain
We have the faith for now
Your victory we will gain
Father You know we mean it
There's no more heart of stone
We're ready for Your power
Now the sin is gone
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
He will say (He will say yes)
Say yes Lord
Yes to Your will Jesus, yes to Your will
Come on say yes, yes
Say yes
Come on raise your hand and say yes
Hmm hm hm-hm
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Ooh Lord can You heal even me Lord
See I'm coming to You Lord
Just as I am
I'm in need of the blood of the lamb
Oh my oh my soul say yes, yes ooh yes
Can You heal even me Lord
I know I can't do this by myself
I surrender, oh yeah oh yea yeah ooh
Do you believe? Somebody say
Somebody ought to stand up and say yea
Lift up your hands and say
Oh yea yea yea!
Lift up your hands to your king
To the king who promised he's coming
Somebody tell me who is the King of Glory
The love of God strong and mighty
Do you know Jesus?
If so hold up your hands and say yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
Somebody say yeah
We need Your love today
I know that You are listening
You hear me everyday
Father please hear us
And we will be OK
Father we need You to heal families today
Father can You hear me
I'm calling on Your name
Not Buddha nor Muhammad
But it's Jesus we cry out loud
Father just forgive us
Hear us when we say
We'll give ya, give ya, give You everything
Our lives and souls today
Father You know we need it
I've never seen so much pain
We have the faith for now
Your victory we will gain
Father You know we mean it
There's no more heart of stone
We're ready for Your power
Now the sin is gone
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
Father (can You hear me now)
He will say (He will say yes)
Say yes Lord
Yes to Your will Jesus, yes to Your will
Come on say yes, yes
Say yes
Come on raise your hand and say yes
Hmm hm hm-hm
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Ooh Lord can You heal even me Lord
See I'm coming to You Lord
Just as I am
I'm in need of the blood of the lamb
Oh my oh my soul say yes, yes ooh yes
Can You heal even me Lord
I know I can't do this by myself
I surrender, oh yeah oh yea yeah ooh
Do you believe? Somebody say
Somebody ought to stand up and say yea
Lift up your hands and say
Oh yea yea yea!
Lift up your hands to your king
To the king who promised he's coming
Somebody tell me who is the King of Glory
The love of God strong and mighty
Do you know Jesus?
If so hold up your hands and say yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
Somebody say yeah
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Father Can You Hear Me Lyrics as written by Tyler Emmitt Perry
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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