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"
Sister love why don't you break it up,
You got to let someone look into your heart
Sister love how do you keep it up,
If you don't let no-one look into your heart
As a kid you couldn't live it up
You were so serious but always so smart
As a kid couldn't keep it up
And we were never close
So much apart
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue?
There'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose (I want to give that to you)
There was a time when you were being so proud
Could have been anything that you aspired
There was a time when you were never around
When something good happened
Something good happened right
So sister love I'll help you off the ground
You got to let someone look into your heart
You got to turn this situation around
You got to turn this, turn it around
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue?
(And tell me now) there'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
'Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
7 days you should be giving yourself
All your belongings
All that you treasure
7 weeks you think of nobody else
Is this what you want
Is this what you are?
How did it come this far?
Here comes the sun smiling
The only thing that's true
(And tell me now) there'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
'Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile (telling you)
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl (telling you)
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
You got to let someone look into your heart
Sister love how do you keep it up,
If you don't let no-one look into your heart
As a kid you couldn't live it up
You were so serious but always so smart
As a kid couldn't keep it up
And we were never close
So much apart
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue?
There'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose (I want to give that to you)
There was a time when you were being so proud
Could have been anything that you aspired
There was a time when you were never around
When something good happened
Something good happened right
So sister love I'll help you off the ground
You got to let someone look into your heart
You got to turn this situation around
You got to turn this, turn it around
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue?
(And tell me now) there'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
'Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
7 days you should be giving yourself
All your belongings
All that you treasure
7 weeks you think of nobody else
Is this what you want
Is this what you are?
How did it come this far?
Here comes the sun smiling
The only thing that's true
(And tell me now) there'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
'Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile (telling you)
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl (telling you)
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
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