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"
God, he loved the world so much
He died to set us free
And yet you hesitate
Afraid to go where you don't see
But you've been given visions of
Another kind of world
His kingdom has come
To move the woman from the girl
What's it gonna be now, baby
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take now, honey
Just to make you try?
Don't you know your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
What's it gonna be?
So lift your eyes above
Get a better view
If you're in but just not of
Then what have you to lose
Faith has changed the boundaries
His love has set you free
Got to open the box
A gift is to receive
What's it gonna be now, baby
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take now, honey
Just to make you try?
Don't you know your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
The window is open
On a bright and sunny day
And in the trees you see
The forest for a change
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take just to make you come
Your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
Your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
What's it gonna be?
He died to set us free
And yet you hesitate
Afraid to go where you don't see
But you've been given visions of
Another kind of world
His kingdom has come
To move the woman from the girl
What's it gonna be now, baby
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take now, honey
Just to make you try?
Don't you know your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
What's it gonna be?
So lift your eyes above
Get a better view
If you're in but just not of
Then what have you to lose
Faith has changed the boundaries
His love has set you free
Got to open the box
A gift is to receive
What's it gonna be now, baby
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take now, honey
Just to make you try?
Don't you know your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
The window is open
On a bright and sunny day
And in the trees you see
The forest for a change
Are you gonna fly?
What's it gonna take just to make you come
Your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
Your freedom comes
When you leave your fears behind
What's it gonna be?
Lyrics submitted by murlough23
What's It Gonna Be Lyrics as written by Christine Swarr Dente
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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