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"
One day I'll always remember
Was when you walked into my life
It was a very special night
When we danced so close, so tender
It gave my heart the second chance
That I'd been waiting for
But our love is falling
All kinds of pressure has temptation calling
It gives me fever
But no matter what, I ain't gonna leave you
I'm gonna stay till the last day
Worry no more, what is love for?
I hear love knocking honey
Come on, let's open the door
You know you've got me to love
I can tell you that
If you should ever need some love
You just call me back
I've been loving you from the start
Let me tell you that
And I'll keep loving you from my heart
Sure can tell you that
You've got so much to love
Every time that we kiss
I'm reminded it's you I miss
I just love when we love like this
I can tell you that
Please forgive me if I pout
But my world would turn inside out
If on leaving me you insist
Let me tell you that
I start to hold you but you pull back,
not much just a little
I can't control you
When you get so caught up in the middle
First you say yes, then you say no
Said you're gonna stay, now you're gonna go
You know I'll tell you honey
But I think you already know
I can tell you this
Anytime you go I really miss you
Nothing to do, tired of my friends
Won't you come back and love me again?
So I can tell you that
You've got me forever girl to love
Was when you walked into my life
It was a very special night
When we danced so close, so tender
It gave my heart the second chance
That I'd been waiting for
But our love is falling
All kinds of pressure has temptation calling
It gives me fever
But no matter what, I ain't gonna leave you
I'm gonna stay till the last day
Worry no more, what is love for?
I hear love knocking honey
Come on, let's open the door
You know you've got me to love
I can tell you that
If you should ever need some love
You just call me back
I've been loving you from the start
Let me tell you that
And I'll keep loving you from my heart
Sure can tell you that
You've got so much to love
Every time that we kiss
I'm reminded it's you I miss
I just love when we love like this
I can tell you that
Please forgive me if I pout
But my world would turn inside out
If on leaving me you insist
Let me tell you that
I start to hold you but you pull back,
not much just a little
I can't control you
When you get so caught up in the middle
First you say yes, then you say no
Said you're gonna stay, now you're gonna go
You know I'll tell you honey
But I think you already know
I can tell you this
Anytime you go I really miss you
Nothing to do, tired of my friends
Won't you come back and love me again?
So I can tell you that
You've got me forever girl to love
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
I Can Tell You That Lyrics as written by Luther Vandross Hubert Barclay Iii Eaves
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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