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 use to lay my hand on your heart and pray that I could take the pain away
I would of carried all the weight I would of never let you fall
I wish I had the strength to break the legs of what took you away
You were never mine to save and I was never strong enough
So I just let you go
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
I used to wait till you would fall asleep and lay beside the bed and weep
Because I knew that you weren't mine to keep but I could never let you go
I would of given anything to try to keep you here with me
But I didn't have the things you need so I could never keep a home
And I just let you go
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
And I hate myself
For being human
What good are hearts if you cant use them?
And I hate myself
For being human
What good are hearts if you cant use them?
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself
For being human.
I would of carried all the weight I would of never let you fall
I wish I had the strength to break the legs of what took you away
You were never mine to save and I was never strong enough
So I just let you go
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
I used to wait till you would fall asleep and lay beside the bed and weep
Because I knew that you weren't mine to keep but I could never let you go
I would of given anything to try to keep you here with me
But I didn't have the things you need so I could never keep a home
And I just let you go
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
And I hate myself
For being human
What good are hearts if you cant use them?
And I hate myself
For being human
What good are hearts if you cant use them?
Now that you're gone
I hope you found peace now
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
Now that its over I hope you found closure
Cause after all that we've been through
Its something I couldn't give you
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself for being human
And I hate myself
For being human.
Lyrics submitted by Brendonsoh
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aww i love this song. i feel that its a song about a guy whos in mad love, but he knows it can't work. but no matter how hard he tries to move on or forget, he just can't seem to forget the feelings he has, and thinking of her just reminds him of what he'll never have...
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mhmm......oh, and this song rocks
Definately about a relationship that did not work out. Awww...this song has me in tears right now.
Oh and wouldn't it sound better if it was... "Because I knew that you weren't mine to keep but I could never let you go"
It acctually reminds me of a death . it reminds me of my cousin who passed away this year and she had lukemia so she was in pain . and in the song it goes that he wants to take the pain away but he wasnt strong enough and he knew that he just had to let them go . because there was nothing he could do . it all fits for me , because it pretty much explains how i felt . especially now that your gone , i hope you find peace now . it just all goes .
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Harlequin89- it fits with ''Because I knew that you were mine to keep'' because he wanted her to be happy with him, he wanted to save her, but couldn't.
i think of the first part of the song when my dads sick...