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"
There's one thing that I want
It's got to be pure and true
But I worry, so worried I'll never find you
For the young lovers, they dance
They hunger for each other
They needn't hurry, no no no
For the young lovers
Don't leave me blue
(Don't you leave me blue, right now)
Don't leave me blue
(I never never never never told you)
I can't save you, I don't want to
You got to find out for yourself
But what I can do is tell you
That you wither too fast
'Cause love is dying, I've done my trying
I give up right now
Every piece is missing, I've done my wishing
I'm done
Don't leave me blue
Don't leave me blue
(I never do, I never do)
Don't leave me blue
(I never never... I'm so lonely now)
'Cause love is dying, it's gone.
It's so... it's it's... frail
It's so... it don't...
It it it it it it it's all done
Alright, alright
It's a-dying, I don't care
Alright, alright
I don't give much anyway
Don't leave me blue
(So it goes I want my darling so)
Don't leave me blue
(I never would have, I never would have anyway)
Don't leave me blue
(Leave me blue, leave me blue)
Don't leave me blue
(I never would, I never ever ever would)
It's got to be pure and true
But I worry, so worried I'll never find you
For the young lovers, they dance
They hunger for each other
They needn't hurry, no no no
For the young lovers
Don't leave me blue
(Don't you leave me blue, right now)
Don't leave me blue
(I never never never never told you)
I can't save you, I don't want to
You got to find out for yourself
But what I can do is tell you
That you wither too fast
'Cause love is dying, I've done my trying
I give up right now
Every piece is missing, I've done my wishing
I'm done
Don't leave me blue
Don't leave me blue
(I never do, I never do)
Don't leave me blue
(I never never... I'm so lonely now)
'Cause love is dying, it's gone.
It's so... it's it's... frail
It's so... it don't...
It it it it it it it's all done
Alright, alright
It's a-dying, I don't care
Alright, alright
I don't give much anyway
Don't leave me blue
(So it goes I want my darling so)
Don't leave me blue
(I never would have, I never would have anyway)
Don't leave me blue
(Leave me blue, leave me blue)
Don't leave me blue
(I never would, I never ever ever would)
Lyrics submitted by The_Yoshinator
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ok, so i'm confused... he says he love is dying, he's done trying, i give up right now.. what confuses me is if the relationship is done... what does he mean..don't leave me blue.
also, i never do, i never do.. i never would have anyway, i never ever, ever would... what's that all about? never what??
please un-confuse me with your opinions i'd really appreciate it..
maybe blue is the name of somebody as well as a feeling telling Blue that he wouldn't have left her they way she left him.
I think he knows that the relationship to end, but at the same time he wants to hold on to her, and letting go of her would "leave him blue." As far as the "never do"'s, he may mean, "I won't leave you blue, so please don't do the same to me."
evern though the both of them moved on.. he'll still love her...forever.
plus...me loved her and never told her. isn't it a shame. yu should never leave love a secret.