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"
Ooh, ooh
It's been the longest winter without you
I didn't know where to turn to (ooh, ooh-oh)
See somehow I can't forget you
After all that we've been through (ooh, ooh-oh)
Going, coming
Thought I heard a knock (whose there? no one)
Thinking that (I deserve it)
And now I realize that I really didn't know (oh-ooh)
If you didn't notice
You mean everything (quickly, I'm learning)
To love again (all I know is)
I'ma be okay (oh ooh-oh)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals too
Oh yeah (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Ooh-ooh (it'll all get better in time)
How could I turn on the TV? (no, ooh-oh)
Without somethin' that'll remind me (ooh, ooh-oh)
Was it all that easy? (ooh, ooh-oh)
To just put aside your feelings (ooh, ooh-oh)
If I'm dreamin'
Don't want to let it (hurt my feelings)
But that's the past (I believe it)
And I know that, time will heal it (ooh, ooh-oh)
If you didn't notice
Well you mean everything (quickly I'm learning)
Ooh, to love again (all I know is)
I'ma be okay (ooh, ooh-oh)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Oh yeah (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Oh (it'll all get better in time)
Since there's no more you and me (no more you and me)
It's time I let you go so I can be free (ooh, ooh-oh)
And live my life how it should be (no no no, no no no)
No matter how hard it is, I'll be fine without you
Yes I will
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Oh, ooh-oh (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too (yes I do)
(It'll all get better in time)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Yes (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Oh (it'll all get better in time)
It's been the longest winter without you
I didn't know where to turn to (ooh, ooh-oh)
See somehow I can't forget you
After all that we've been through (ooh, ooh-oh)
Going, coming
Thought I heard a knock (whose there? no one)
Thinking that (I deserve it)
And now I realize that I really didn't know (oh-ooh)
If you didn't notice
You mean everything (quickly, I'm learning)
To love again (all I know is)
I'ma be okay (oh ooh-oh)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals too
Oh yeah (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Ooh-ooh (it'll all get better in time)
How could I turn on the TV? (no, ooh-oh)
Without somethin' that'll remind me (ooh, ooh-oh)
Was it all that easy? (ooh, ooh-oh)
To just put aside your feelings (ooh, ooh-oh)
If I'm dreamin'
Don't want to let it (hurt my feelings)
But that's the past (I believe it)
And I know that, time will heal it (ooh, ooh-oh)
If you didn't notice
Well you mean everything (quickly I'm learning)
Ooh, to love again (all I know is)
I'ma be okay (ooh, ooh-oh)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Oh yeah (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Oh (it'll all get better in time)
Since there's no more you and me (no more you and me)
It's time I let you go so I can be free (ooh, ooh-oh)
And live my life how it should be (no no no, no no no)
No matter how hard it is, I'll be fine without you
Yes I will
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Oh, ooh-oh (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too (yes I do)
(It'll all get better in time)
Thought I couldn't live without you
It's gonna hurt when it heals, too
Yes (it'll all get better in time)
Even though I really love you (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I'm gonna smile 'cause I deserve too
Oh (it'll all get better in time)
Lyrics submitted by leahdelonge
Better in Time Lyrics as written by Jonathan Rotem Andrea Martin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I LOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEE this song!!!!!! I think you can take this song as being for a boyfriend, girlfriend, close friend, just a loved one in general. I think the way you take and interpret a song is by experiences and how a song gets to you and what emotions it brings out in you. I think song is beautiful. Its so sad but also gives hope too. I think this song is about letting time heal a broken heart. And how much it hurts to go through that process but knowing that you'll be alright at the end. The part that goes "going coming thought I heard a knock, who's there? no one. " How sad is that? it brought a little tear to my eye. what i think that part is about, is that in everything you do you can't forget that loved one. You just hope that they'll come back. Every knock on the door, or maybe every time you're phone rings or you get a text message or whatever, you just hope and hope its that person but its not. And in this song leona keeps bringing out all these pains that come with this healing process but backs it up with a little hope..."Thought i couldn't live without you(basically that person was you're everything) its gonna hurt when it heals too ( showing how much love you had) it'll all get better in time (there comes the hope, yes it hurts but it'll get better) even though i really love you, i'm gonna smile cuz i deserve too (how hard must that be! you love this person soooo much and you know its over but you also know you deserve to smile)" I think one of the hardest things is experiencing what Leona sings in that ending part. "since there's no more you and me, its time i let you go so i can be free. and live my life how it should be. no matter how hard it is i'll be fine without you! Yes I will!!" You know its the end okay and your love for this person was soooo strong, that person was your all, your everything, you never thought there wouldnt be the day that you didn't wake up to THEIR "good morning" or would never hear THEIR "hey :)" or "i love you" but now thats reality and as HARD it is you gotta go on with your life and let them go, but as unrealistic as it sounds you know you'll be okay