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"
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich schwinge gerne groß e Reden
Auch wenn ich nichts zu sagen hab
Ich weiß ich ü berzeuge jeden
Mein Angebot lehnt niemand ab
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie gezä hlt in der
Nacht damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott glaub an mich
Wä hle mich stirb fü are mich
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Ich bin ein Meister I'm Betrü gen
Mein Auftrag kommt direkt von Gott
Die Welt liegt in den letzten Zü gen
Wä hlt mich ich fü hr euch aufs Schafott
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott glaub an mich
Wä hle mich, stirb fü are mich
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
(Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott)
Ich schick' euch gerne meine Kriege
Ihr wisst, dass euer Land euch liebt
(Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Streifen wehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Siehst du wie die Erde brennt
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich schwinge gerne groß e Reden
Auch wenn ich nichts zu sagen hab
Ich weiß ich ü berzeuge jeden
Mein Angebot lehnt niemand ab
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie gezä hlt in der
Nacht damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott glaub an mich
Wä hle mich stirb fü are mich
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Ich bin ein Meister I'm Betrü gen
Mein Auftrag kommt direkt von Gott
Die Welt liegt in den letzten Zü gen
Wä hlt mich ich fü hr euch aufs Schafott
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott glaub an mich
Wä hle mich, stirb fü are mich
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
(Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott)
Ich schick' euch gerne meine Kriege
Ihr wisst, dass euer Land euch liebt
(Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott, Gott)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Sterne stehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
Hoch am blauen Firmament
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Weiß t du wie viel Streifen wehen
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt)
Ich bin die Antwort auf Gott
Siehst du wie die Erde brennt
(Nur Gott, der Herr, hat sie
Gezä hlt, in der Nacht
Damit ihm keiner fehlt) Ich bin
Die Antwort auf Gott
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Weisst Du Wie Viel Sterne Stehen Lyrics as written by Robert Flux Dero Goi
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