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"
We haven't met, and that's OK
'Cause you will be asking for me one day
Don't wanna wait in line
The moment is mine believe me
Don't close, your eyes
Cause it's a chance worth takin'
And I think that I can shake it
[Chorus]
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve
Electrified, I'm on a wire
Gettin' together and we're on fire
What I said, you heard
Now I got you spinnin'
Don't close, your mind
The words I use are open
I think that I can show you
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
I know I can change the world yeah, yeah, yeah
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve
You, need to discover
Who can make you feel free
And I, need to uncover
The part of you that's reaching out for me, hey!
[Chorus]
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
I know I can change the world yeah, yeah, yeah
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve!
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got, I got nerve!
'Cause you will be asking for me one day
Don't wanna wait in line
The moment is mine believe me
Don't close, your eyes
Cause it's a chance worth takin'
And I think that I can shake it
[Chorus]
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve
Electrified, I'm on a wire
Gettin' together and we're on fire
What I said, you heard
Now I got you spinnin'
Don't close, your mind
The words I use are open
I think that I can show you
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
I know I can change the world yeah, yeah, yeah
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve
You, need to discover
Who can make you feel free
And I, need to uncover
The part of you that's reaching out for me, hey!
[Chorus]
I know where I stand
I know who I am
I would never run away when life gets bad, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
I know I can change the world yeah, yeah, yeah
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got nerve!
I know what you like
I know what you think
Not afraid to stare you down until you blink, it's
Everything I see
Every part of me
Gonna get what I deserve
I got, I got nerve!
Lyrics submitted by musicfreak177
I Got Nerve Lyrics as written by Ken Hauptman Aruna Abrams
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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your face ya i went there
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