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"
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
Just to see that smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
And I do
And I do
Oh I'll be good to him
I'll bring joy to him oh oh
Everyone says there'll come a day
When I'll walk alongside of him
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
I really do
And I do
Why can't he see?
How blind here he be?
Someday he'll see
That he was meant just for me, oh oh oh oh
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
Just to see that smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
I really do
And I do
Is to love love love him
Just to see that smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
And I do
And I do
Oh I'll be good to him
I'll bring joy to him oh oh
Everyone says there'll come a day
When I'll walk alongside of him
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
I really do
And I do
Why can't he see?
How blind here he be?
Someday he'll see
That he was meant just for me, oh oh oh oh
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
Just to see that smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
I really do
And I do
Lyrics submitted by loveablelo06
To Know Him Is to Love Him [Live] Lyrics as written by Phil Spector
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Abkco Music Inc.
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I really love this. Beautiful cover!
This is sooo good. She has such a perfect voice for this song.
she fucking kills this song and i mean that in the best way possible. you can really hear the emotion in her voice play out in each line as she sings it. i know it sounds like she's yearning for a man who is out of her reach, someone who doesn't really know she exists in a way. however, my very first thought on hearing the words was that the "he/him" is actually god. i know this was written by phil spektor so who really knows, but just reading the line:
"Oh, everyone says there'll come a day When I'll walk alongside of him"
kind of sounds like the promise of heaven after death. it's a stretch, i know, but a thought nonetheless.
Sorry, I think you are mistaken. This is definitely about a man, a love of her life. I feel like you can almost feel that.
"Oh, everyone says there'll come a day When I'll walk alongside of him"
This is definitely.....walking down the aisle, getting married. Why would everyone say that about just her? Very wrong. I'm sure " Be my baby" was about "God" too.
Spector's father who gassed himself in a suicide has a gravestone which reads, To know his was to love him. Spector changed the tense and made it into a love song, but the poster who says there's some element of the supernatural here is right. And remember all the love songs about dead teens, the whole James Dean kind of thing -- there is that element in it, not just passing youth and the evanescence of love, but also death.
You don't know him like I know him. Outwardly he may appear to be a man confused. He did things that hurt me, and hurt himself. Yet, there are things about him that are thrilling and rare to find. If you only knew him, the way I know him, you would understand my Love for him.
so lovely! She is incredible. Does anyone know who wrote it?
Horrible cover actually, can't believe she thout she'd ace it.