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"
When a train comes, I dont know what to do
I'm leaving town, but I ain't leaving you
When I get down, get these far away blues
and I dont wanna go back home
I could say I'm sorry if you think it would help
You say you call me, yeah but you never can tell
you just stand there, just wishing me well
and I cant think of nothing to say
And I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know that you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
Make it up, Make it up to you
We've been gone now for weeks maybe longer
and its cold out and this hurts gettin stronger
and i called you but you just sat in the corner
just watching that telephone ring
Baby pick up so I can hear your sweet voice
cuz i miss you, you wont be sad anymore
cuz one day i'll walk through that door
and hold you in my arms
And I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know that you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
Make it up to you (x3)
You've been drinkin, you've been drinkin your wine
and you're wasted, yes and wastin your time
and its plain now, when you say it isn't mine
yeah baby can't you see i've been tryin
i'm ready cuz i know this can work
and i would take you to the ends of the earth
just hold on just a little bit longer and i'll be back by your side
yeah cause, I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
I'm leaving town, but I ain't leaving you
When I get down, get these far away blues
and I dont wanna go back home
I could say I'm sorry if you think it would help
You say you call me, yeah but you never can tell
you just stand there, just wishing me well
and I cant think of nothing to say
And I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know that you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
Make it up, Make it up to you
We've been gone now for weeks maybe longer
and its cold out and this hurts gettin stronger
and i called you but you just sat in the corner
just watching that telephone ring
Baby pick up so I can hear your sweet voice
cuz i miss you, you wont be sad anymore
cuz one day i'll walk through that door
and hold you in my arms
And I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know that you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
Make it up to you (x3)
You've been drinkin, you've been drinkin your wine
and you're wasted, yes and wastin your time
and its plain now, when you say it isn't mine
yeah baby can't you see i've been tryin
i'm ready cuz i know this can work
and i would take you to the ends of the earth
just hold on just a little bit longer and i'll be back by your side
yeah cause, I'm gonna write you a song
to tell you just how much i've been missing you
you wont have to wait very long
and i'll be home dear
and I know you've been crying at night
but you dont have to be lonesome cuz
I'm gonna make it right
Make it up, Make it up to you
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
I'll make it up... I'll make it up...
Lyrics submitted by ashleybfun
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