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 just cant believe you're gone
Still waitin' for mornin' to come
When I see if the sun will rise, in the way that your by my side
Well we got so much in store
Tell me what is it I'm reaching for
When were through building memories I'll hold yesterday in my heart
In my heart
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, they can never have yesterday
You always choose to stay
I should be thankful for every day
Heaven knows what the future holds or least where the story goes
I never believed it til now
I know I'll see you again I'm sure
No it's not selfish to ask for more
One more night, one more day, one more smile on your face
But they cant take yesterday
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
I thought our days would last forever
But it wasn't our destiny
'Cause in my mind we had so much time, but I was so wrong
No I can believe that
I can still find the strength in the moments we made
I'm lookin' back on yesterday
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
All the broken dreams take everything
But they can never have yesterday
Still waitin' for mornin' to come
When I see if the sun will rise, in the way that your by my side
Well we got so much in store
Tell me what is it I'm reaching for
When were through building memories I'll hold yesterday in my heart
In my heart
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, they can never have yesterday
You always choose to stay
I should be thankful for every day
Heaven knows what the future holds or least where the story goes
I never believed it til now
I know I'll see you again I'm sure
No it's not selfish to ask for more
One more night, one more day, one more smile on your face
But they cant take yesterday
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
I thought our days would last forever
But it wasn't our destiny
'Cause in my mind we had so much time, but I was so wrong
No I can believe that
I can still find the strength in the moments we made
I'm lookin' back on yesterday
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we will go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away, but they can never have yesterday
All the broken dreams take everything
But they can never have yesterday
Lyrics submitted by leahdelonge
Yesterday Lyrics as written by Michael James Mani Louis John Biancaniello
Lyrics © TuneCore Inc., BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sentric Music, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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this is a great song.ive made videos on youtube to this song =) i agree with turtles