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"
Sometimes I'm walking down the street, with my head in the clouds
I can't see what stands before me, I can't feel the walls around me
I'm lost in a daydream
A place where every child could be runnin' wild, running free
It feels so natural, could it be possible for this to be?
Make a wish on a star, that our troubles won't last forever
Now that we've come so far, I believe that we can make it all the way
A place where everyone can feel love happiness
I know, can't be far away
Where every woman child and man need never be oppressed
I know there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
Yes I've been down on my Knees, with my head to the sky
Hoping this world divided, will make a stand united
Oh happy day
We've seen the future within' the past, the price of closin' our eyes
Let's turn this situation, with love and education
Let's find a way
Make a wish on a star, that our troubles won't last forever
Now that we've come so far, I believe that we can make it all the way
A place where everyone can feel, love happiness
I know, can't be far away
Every woman, child, and man, need never be oppressed
I know, there will come a day
A place where everyone can feel, love and happiness
I know, can't be far away
Where every woman, child and man won't be oppressed
I know, there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
We got to know and understand , we are vital to the master plan
So get ready for the fight as we proceed into the light
Get ready for the fight, for what is right
I can't see what stands before me, I can't feel the walls around me
I'm lost in a daydream
A place where every child could be runnin' wild, running free
It feels so natural, could it be possible for this to be?
Make a wish on a star, that our troubles won't last forever
Now that we've come so far, I believe that we can make it all the way
A place where everyone can feel love happiness
I know, can't be far away
Where every woman child and man need never be oppressed
I know there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
Yes I've been down on my Knees, with my head to the sky
Hoping this world divided, will make a stand united
Oh happy day
We've seen the future within' the past, the price of closin' our eyes
Let's turn this situation, with love and education
Let's find a way
Make a wish on a star, that our troubles won't last forever
Now that we've come so far, I believe that we can make it all the way
A place where everyone can feel, love happiness
I know, can't be far away
Every woman, child, and man, need never be oppressed
I know, there will come a day
A place where everyone can feel, love and happiness
I know, can't be far away
Where every woman, child and man won't be oppressed
I know, there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
There will come a day, there comes a day, there will come a day
We got to know and understand , we are vital to the master plan
So get ready for the fight as we proceed into the light
Get ready for the fight, for what is right
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
There Will Come a Day Lyrics as written by Jean-paul Maunick Graham Donald Harvey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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