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"
Every word I say, I mean it
Every single day I feel it
But sometimes when you talk
It's obvious you want to show it
So don't blow it
[Chorus]
Tell me what we got
Tell me it's a lot
Tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change
And always be the same
Tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie
Tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want
The same things as me
Tell me that it's fate
Driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
That keeps me hanging on
I can read the signs between us
And I feel it's inside when you come nearer
There's a stillness in the air
Like no one else is there
And every moment stays in the moment
[Chorus]
Sometimes it hurts to watch you leave
It feels like you're taking a part of me with you
I never know how it'll be I guess it's just a mystery
But is it the real thing (that keeps me hangin' on)
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
Every single day I feel it
But sometimes when you talk
It's obvious you want to show it
So don't blow it
[Chorus]
Tell me what we got
Tell me it's a lot
Tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change
And always be the same
Tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie
Tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want
The same things as me
Tell me that it's fate
Driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
That keeps me hanging on
I can read the signs between us
And I feel it's inside when you come nearer
There's a stillness in the air
Like no one else is there
And every moment stays in the moment
[Chorus]
Sometimes it hurts to watch you leave
It feels like you're taking a part of me with you
I never know how it'll be I guess it's just a mystery
But is it the real thing (that keeps me hangin' on)
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
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Ooo first comment! I love this song, my friend bought me the album and I can't get enough! Lets hope he lasts!
I think this song is pretty obvious. I think he basically saying
Tell me that what we have in the relationship is a real thing that It's love that it's important to you as much as it is to him.
im definately glad that carrie won american idol but i like this song and i think its really cute.
he has feelings for someone and he just wants them to feel the same way back.
this song is luffly so sweet! xxx
i thought it was "THE real thing"
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Posting for a friend:
"This song is obviously written to take advantage of malliable and gullable people's thoughts, trying to reel them in to believing that he actually means this stuff."
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