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"
Now after all of this time that we tried
I found out we were living a lie
That after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
I woke up kinda early today
And something told me from that moment
It wouldn't be the same
I knew you were hiding something
But I didn't push it
I didn't know what to say
I tried to pretend, like I didn't see it
'Cause deep down I knew I didn't want to believe it
There it was, it was you and her
You left your sidekick on the nightstand
And I read
Everything you did, and everything you said and
And now I'm standing here looking like damn..
I thought it was you and I
Now I all I got to say is why'
After all of this time that we tried
I found out we were living a lie
And after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
I notice now, that when your around
You be trying to lock the door
Whispering on the phone
Now wait a minute since we been in this house
You ain't never did this before
Tell me what's this about'
I tried to sit and say to myself
This here is too good he don't want nothing else
There it was, it was you and her
You left your credit card receipt inside the beamer babe
Everything you bought her, and everything you spending
Now I'm standing here once again
I thought it was you and I
Now I all I have to say is why'
After all of this time that we tried
I found out we were living a lie
And after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
I found out we were living a lie
That after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
I woke up kinda early today
And something told me from that moment
It wouldn't be the same
I knew you were hiding something
But I didn't push it
I didn't know what to say
I tried to pretend, like I didn't see it
'Cause deep down I knew I didn't want to believe it
There it was, it was you and her
You left your sidekick on the nightstand
And I read
Everything you did, and everything you said and
And now I'm standing here looking like damn..
I thought it was you and I
Now I all I got to say is why'
After all of this time that we tried
I found out we were living a lie
And after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
I notice now, that when your around
You be trying to lock the door
Whispering on the phone
Now wait a minute since we been in this house
You ain't never did this before
Tell me what's this about'
I tried to sit and say to myself
This here is too good he don't want nothing else
There it was, it was you and her
You left your credit card receipt inside the beamer babe
Everything you bought her, and everything you spending
Now I'm standing here once again
I thought it was you and I
Now I all I have to say is why'
After all of this time that we tried
I found out we were living a lie
And after all of this love that we made
I found out you don't love me the same
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
The way that I love you
Lyrics submitted by Iantuition
The Way That I Love You Lyrics as written by Lenton Tereill Hutton Ashanti S. Douglas
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Her voice is amzing in this, i've listened to this song so many times i really love this song i totally agree with you^^darkanj3l
this song is SOOOO GREAT.the lyrics is AMAZING and darkanj3l i agree with you so much nicely said buddy