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"
He's a good man and he's always been
Right there by her side
Through thick and thin she can count on him
He's given her a real good life
He never missed a Valentine's Day
The roses are right on time
And he never walks out of the house
Without kissin' her good bye
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
He still holds her close at nights
Still feels like makin' love
But somethin' about it just don't seem
To feel the way it was
He still says I love you
Still tuckin' the kids in bed
It's nothin' that he's done
It's nothin' that he's said
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
And she'll stay with him no matter
What she chooses not to see
Cause to her it's all about the family
And she's got at least
A hundred reasons not to leave
Cause he's almost everything she's dreamed
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
No, she don't let it show
But a woman knows
Right there by her side
Through thick and thin she can count on him
He's given her a real good life
He never missed a Valentine's Day
The roses are right on time
And he never walks out of the house
Without kissin' her good bye
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
He still holds her close at nights
Still feels like makin' love
But somethin' about it just don't seem
To feel the way it was
He still says I love you
Still tuckin' the kids in bed
It's nothin' that he's done
It's nothin' that he's said
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
And she'll stay with him no matter
What she chooses not to see
Cause to her it's all about the family
And she's got at least
A hundred reasons not to leave
Cause he's almost everything she's dreamed
But a woman knows
When she's lyin' awake at night
Where her man goes
When he's out of her sight
There's no way to explain
How she knows what she knows
She don't let it show
But a woman knows
No, she don't let it show
But a woman knows
Lyrics submitted by Brielle Paige
A Woman Knows Lyrics as written by John D. Rich Vicky Mc Gehee
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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