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"
I never thought we'd come this far
But then how we come that far
And I won't let them in
'Cause she's my lover and not my friend
I'm so scared to lose you now
But so easy to lose it now
Because they're calling at my door
So I'm locking up my door
But now my thoughts are very dark
Beside my dreams are always dark
But don't let them take me away
The clouds they I want me to stay
But be mine, oh
Won't you be mine, oh
Be mine, oh oh
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need it
You don't need to cry, oh no
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need me
There's don't need to cry
I never thought we'd come this far
But then how we come that far
But I won't let them in
'Cause she's my lover and not my friend
I'm so scared to lose it now
Oh it's so easy to lose it now
Because they're calling at my door
So I'm locking up my door
Oh be mine, love
Wont you be mine, oh
Be mine
Be mine
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need it
You don't need to cry, oh no
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need me
Don't need to cry, yeah
So be mine, oh oh
Be mine, oh, be mine
But then how we come that far
And I won't let them in
'Cause she's my lover and not my friend
I'm so scared to lose you now
But so easy to lose it now
Because they're calling at my door
So I'm locking up my door
But now my thoughts are very dark
Beside my dreams are always dark
But don't let them take me away
The clouds they I want me to stay
But be mine, oh
Won't you be mine, oh
Be mine, oh oh
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need it
You don't need to cry, oh no
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need me
There's don't need to cry
I never thought we'd come this far
But then how we come that far
But I won't let them in
'Cause she's my lover and not my friend
I'm so scared to lose it now
Oh it's so easy to lose it now
Because they're calling at my door
So I'm locking up my door
Oh be mine, love
Wont you be mine, oh
Be mine
Be mine
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need it
You don't need to cry, oh no
Take it all outside
'Cause you don't need me
Don't need to cry, yeah
So be mine, oh oh
Be mine, oh, be mine
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Be Mine Lyrics as written by Paul James Garred Hugh Murray Harris
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im not that sure about this song.. maybe its about a girl and everyone wants her and he has her and hes trying to hide her away from the world so nobody gets her and hes suprised that hes come this far with keeping her away from everyone who wants her?? hmm
yeah i also think that..he is afraid of losing her..he loves her to bits but he knows that she could have others too, she might be rly beautiful...and he is rly surprised thats she wants to be with him, and not with an other guy...soi strying to hide her and shouts at everyone she is mine and not yours...but he also knows thats she doesn't need him..
Take it all outside Cause you don't need it Don't need to cry, oh no Take it all outside Cause you don't need me Don't need to cry, yeah
He is in an early stage of a relationship with a girl, and he really likes her, but they have just resently hooked up, so he is scared she doesn't want to be in a real relationship with him. They are in a place where it can go both ways. If she does not want to "be his" she is mad=P
Yeah, I was going to say something similar as Jenx: In an early relationship, and doesn't want to lose her, already.
i think this song is saying that he is in a relationship but he doesnt want to lose her, and he knows that she can leave at anytime but he is asking her ti stay with him and be his.
i just like how this song is so lyrical yet its simple at the same time...
i like what everyones said so far, it seems to fit. Its like this girl he has coveted and finally theyve gotten together but now he doesnt know whether she wants something serious or just to have fun. The line: And I won't let them in Cause she's my lover and not my friend
says that too in a way, i see it as you can share your friends because people have more than one friend and its fine, but you dont share lovers and hes worried she will be taken in by someone else "better" than him or something. i love the kooks, always enjoy finding more and more of their songs.
yeah i think he wants the whole world to know that they're together... a bit like in Belly Love!