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"
Baby girl (Baby girl take ya time)
Baby girl take ya time (baby girl take ya time)
Please don't rush and go (don't rush and go)
I can never let you leave (I can never let you leave)
And I don't want to have to see ya go
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
See I'm the life of the party
The flashy dude on the scene
I had the way with the ladies since the age of 13
See I go city to city and it's the same old thing
Dis girl that girl so many beautiful queens (yep yep)
Now I can't say that me fighting temptation ain't hard
But I never let another chick to come tear us apart girl
You know you got ya name tattooed on my heart
Real talk that's how I feel you been from the start
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
Baby girl don't leave I need somebody right here to help me smooth things out
Like coming home off the road from touring to a happy house
See that what I'm talkin' bout
See I'm givin' you the benefit of the doubt you getting all mad and got me sleepin' on the couch
You trying to get chicken but right here you got steak
Stop trying to break up somethin' good ya gotta have faith
'cause its in god's hands plus I'm being a bigger man
Fand I'm a veteran come on girl give me one mo chance
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
You was there before the deal
Me and you was like jack and Jill
All I wanted was a varsity jacket and a yearbook to remember the years
See you stopped believing in me when I needed you the most
But you want a weddin' ring the most I propose is a toast
I was beggin' you to stay pleading wit you not to leave
But you left me anyway and all that I can do is grieve
I thought I needed you thought I couldn't be anythin' without you
Now I'm the one you beggin' to because I made it without you
Oh you're in my heart, you're in my soul, you're on my mind, all the time
You're in my heart you're in me soul you're on my mind all the time
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
Baby girl take ya time (baby girl take ya time)
Please don't rush and go (don't rush and go)
I can never let you leave (I can never let you leave)
And I don't want to have to see ya go
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
See I'm the life of the party
The flashy dude on the scene
I had the way with the ladies since the age of 13
See I go city to city and it's the same old thing
Dis girl that girl so many beautiful queens (yep yep)
Now I can't say that me fighting temptation ain't hard
But I never let another chick to come tear us apart girl
You know you got ya name tattooed on my heart
Real talk that's how I feel you been from the start
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
Baby girl don't leave I need somebody right here to help me smooth things out
Like coming home off the road from touring to a happy house
See that what I'm talkin' bout
See I'm givin' you the benefit of the doubt you getting all mad and got me sleepin' on the couch
You trying to get chicken but right here you got steak
Stop trying to break up somethin' good ya gotta have faith
'cause its in god's hands plus I'm being a bigger man
Fand I'm a veteran come on girl give me one mo chance
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
You was there before the deal
Me and you was like jack and Jill
All I wanted was a varsity jacket and a yearbook to remember the years
See you stopped believing in me when I needed you the most
But you want a weddin' ring the most I propose is a toast
I was beggin' you to stay pleading wit you not to leave
But you left me anyway and all that I can do is grieve
I thought I needed you thought I couldn't be anythin' without you
Now I'm the one you beggin' to because I made it without you
Oh you're in my heart, you're in my soul, you're on my mind, all the time
You're in my heart you're in me soul you're on my mind all the time
No, No I can't let ya go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
No No I can't let you go
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Never Let You Go Lyrics as written by Charles H. Cornish Dave Bartholomew
Lyrics © Ultra Tunes, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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