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"
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
I'll take you to the temple tonight
All my days I've been searching
To find out what this life is worth
Through the books and bibles of time
I've made up my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert
This is a calling have you heard
Bring all the lovers to the fold
'Cause no one is gonna lose their soul
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
I don't want to fight
Hey, let's go fly a kite
There's nothing that we can't cure
And I'll keep you in my arms for sure
So don't let nobody stop us
Free spirits have to soar
With you I share the gift
The gift that we now know, oh, oh, oh
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
Well I'm done searching now
I found out what this life is worth
Not in the books that I find
But by searching my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert
This is the calling have you heard
Bring all the lovers to the fold
No one is gonna lose their soul
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
Now that you believe
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
I'll take you to the temple tonight
All my days I've been searching
To find out what this life is worth
Through the books and bibles of time
I've made up my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert
This is a calling have you heard
Bring all the lovers to the fold
'Cause no one is gonna lose their soul
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
I don't want to fight
Hey, let's go fly a kite
There's nothing that we can't cure
And I'll keep you in my arms for sure
So don't let nobody stop us
Free spirits have to soar
With you I share the gift
The gift that we now know, oh, oh, oh
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
Well I'm done searching now
I found out what this life is worth
Not in the books that I find
But by searching my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert
This is the calling have you heard
Bring all the lovers to the fold
No one is gonna lose their soul
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
And you don't have to believe it
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Love is my religion
Hey, you can take it or leave it
Now that you believe
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