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"
Nee, kimi wa watashi no taiyou
Watashi no subete wo terasu hikari
Setsunai yoru when I’m feeling blue
Samu sa tokashiteku
coz you’re right in my heart
Ima demo kimi no kao wo
Zutto ukabete bakari think of you
Kimi wa feel the same?
Nani wo omou no?
Ae nai futari wo
Omoide ni shinai de
Baby tsutaetai only yume no naka
Tada sunao ni kono kimochi
Kawaranu feeling for your love
Chanto me wo mitsumete
Wanna see ... Wanna touch ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
Sou, jibun demo wakatteru
Tada arifureteru tekitou na happiness
coz you’re the dreamer
Kimi wa nozoma nai
Dakara koso kimi no koto wo
Konna ni suki ni natta
Negatteru hitori ja nai koto
Dakedo moshimo hoka no dareka to
Kimi ga be in love yorokobu nante
Deki nai yo sonna no
Cuz I am just a girl, ain’t no angel
Baby hanarete from me ika naide
Mou kore ijou no more tooku
Tsumetaku please don’t break my heart
Ame wo furasa nai de
Wanna be by your side ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
Dakara ima wa tsuyoku shinjite itai
Kokoro, tsunagatteru koto
Baby tsutaetai only yume no naka
Tada sunao ni kono kimochi
Kawaranu feeling for your love
Chanto me wo mitsumete
Wanna see ... Wanna touch ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
I miss you
Baby hanarete from me ika naide
Mou kore ijou no more tooku
Tsumetaku please don’t break my heart
Ame wo furasa nai de
Wanna be by your side ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
You miss me?
Watashi no subete wo terasu hikari
Setsunai yoru when I’m feeling blue
Samu sa tokashiteku
coz you’re right in my heart
Ima demo kimi no kao wo
Zutto ukabete bakari think of you
Kimi wa feel the same?
Nani wo omou no?
Ae nai futari wo
Omoide ni shinai de
Baby tsutaetai only yume no naka
Tada sunao ni kono kimochi
Kawaranu feeling for your love
Chanto me wo mitsumete
Wanna see ... Wanna touch ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
Sou, jibun demo wakatteru
Tada arifureteru tekitou na happiness
coz you’re the dreamer
Kimi wa nozoma nai
Dakara koso kimi no koto wo
Konna ni suki ni natta
Negatteru hitori ja nai koto
Dakedo moshimo hoka no dareka to
Kimi ga be in love yorokobu nante
Deki nai yo sonna no
Cuz I am just a girl, ain’t no angel
Baby hanarete from me ika naide
Mou kore ijou no more tooku
Tsumetaku please don’t break my heart
Ame wo furasa nai de
Wanna be by your side ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
Dakara ima wa tsuyoku shinjite itai
Kokoro, tsunagatteru koto
Baby tsutaetai only yume no naka
Tada sunao ni kono kimochi
Kawaranu feeling for your love
Chanto me wo mitsumete
Wanna see ... Wanna touch ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
I miss you
Baby hanarete from me ika naide
Mou kore ijou no more tooku
Tsumetaku please don’t break my heart
Ame wo furasa nai de
Wanna be by your side ...
Omoi todoke let me fly to you
You miss me?
Lyrics submitted by seasons of grey
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English translation: Oh baby, you are my sun, the light that illuminates everything for me On those painful nights when I’m feeling blue the loneliness melts away coz you’re right in my heart
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