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'll be your shelter, i'll be your street
when you get lonely baby, i will be the company you keep
you know you make my sleepin oh so sweet, cause you come around in all of my dreams
you come around in all of my dreams
the skies were cloudy, and then there was you
(you came along)
the clouds were parted, baby, you came and now i see right through
you know you make the sky look oh so blue
you put color back in the world, yes you do
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll smile smile smile till the morning time
cause i am the boy with the sunshine eyes
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll cry cry cry if your out of my life
cause i am the boy, yeah the boy with the sunshine eyes
comfortable feeling, that my best friend
(she came along)
she fell in love with me
she lights up any place where she stands
(she's the kind of girl that gets me smilin' again)
cause all i need is holdin' onto my hand
and i feel so cold when your not here to be my coat
and i feel so warm when you are so wrapped around me baby baby please dont go
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll smile smile smile till the morning time
cause im, im the boy with the sunshine eyes
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll cry cry cry if your out of my life
cause i am the boy, yeah the boy with the sunshine eyes
when you get lonely baby, i will be the company you keep
you know you make my sleepin oh so sweet, cause you come around in all of my dreams
you come around in all of my dreams
the skies were cloudy, and then there was you
(you came along)
the clouds were parted, baby, you came and now i see right through
you know you make the sky look oh so blue
you put color back in the world, yes you do
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll smile smile smile till the morning time
cause i am the boy with the sunshine eyes
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll cry cry cry if your out of my life
cause i am the boy, yeah the boy with the sunshine eyes
comfortable feeling, that my best friend
(she came along)
she fell in love with me
she lights up any place where she stands
(she's the kind of girl that gets me smilin' again)
cause all i need is holdin' onto my hand
and i feel so cold when your not here to be my coat
and i feel so warm when you are so wrapped around me baby baby please dont go
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll smile smile smile till the morning time
cause im, im the boy with the sunshine eyes
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
dance with me darlin, dance with me darlin
and i'll cry cry cry if your out of my life
cause i am the boy, yeah the boy with the sunshine eyes
Lyrics submitted by barbie_glitters
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this song just makes me smile. I agree, finding the brigher side of things. it's an incrediable song.