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"
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll stil go on & on & on
Hear me now
livin in a dreamscape trying to keep food upon my plate
though the pleasure & pains remain
I do what I can just to maintain
they say it's a commitment
but more like a real life sentence an' I'm
trying to understand the ways of the rules and the crimes guess I'm just conflicted
when you been so far when everyone knows ya name
no matter where you are just keep up on a humble face
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll stil go on & on & on
An' we say
me haffi get up an go whey I don't know
I'm inna fight livin life takin it blow by blow
get up an go whey I don't know
I'm jus livin my days tryin to find my way
caan put in a simple ??? ah
Edley Shine an Gator ruffneck danger
talkin about Jah know da way di world ah run nowadays
di yout' on da street, everything in dis nature
now when ya young ya juss a lotta so simple
mom & teacher everyday ah squeeze ya dimple
but as ya grow ya wonda whey love's gone
know 'em wanna tell it but ya juss move on
life is a road with so many sign
one lane is your an di next is mine
dats why in dis time we think conscious
an in these days ya know me haffi live rhiteous
me haffi get up an go whey I don't know
I'm inna fight livin life takin it blow by blow
get up an go whey I don't know
I'm jus livin my days tryin to find my way
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we stil go on & on & on, ay
Never in a million years
did I think I'd be the envy of my peers
cause even in the light of day
many of my friends have lost their way
what happened to the days of breaking bread
and believing in what each man said
now all is lost in envy and hate
and now my life they trying to take
and I dont' know why
it really shouldn't be that way
yet I must confide
cause only God decides your fate
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll still go on & on & on
anna me say
let's break di chain dat remain upon di young youth's brain
an make di point more clear
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll stil go on & on & on
Hear me now
livin in a dreamscape trying to keep food upon my plate
though the pleasure & pains remain
I do what I can just to maintain
they say it's a commitment
but more like a real life sentence an' I'm
trying to understand the ways of the rules and the crimes guess I'm just conflicted
when you been so far when everyone knows ya name
no matter where you are just keep up on a humble face
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll stil go on & on & on
An' we say
me haffi get up an go whey I don't know
I'm inna fight livin life takin it blow by blow
get up an go whey I don't know
I'm jus livin my days tryin to find my way
caan put in a simple ??? ah
Edley Shine an Gator ruffneck danger
talkin about Jah know da way di world ah run nowadays
di yout' on da street, everything in dis nature
now when ya young ya juss a lotta so simple
mom & teacher everyday ah squeeze ya dimple
but as ya grow ya wonda whey love's gone
know 'em wanna tell it but ya juss move on
life is a road with so many sign
one lane is your an di next is mine
dats why in dis time we think conscious
an in these days ya know me haffi live rhiteous
me haffi get up an go whey I don't know
I'm inna fight livin life takin it blow by blow
get up an go whey I don't know
I'm jus livin my days tryin to find my way
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we stil go on & on & on, ay
Never in a million years
did I think I'd be the envy of my peers
cause even in the light of day
many of my friends have lost their way
what happened to the days of breaking bread
and believing in what each man said
now all is lost in envy and hate
and now my life they trying to take
and I dont' know why
it really shouldn't be that way
yet I must confide
cause only God decides your fate
[hook]
Wherever we go it's just life and love, you & me
we make the world go around for eternity
though we can't last that long, we'll still go on & on & on
anna me say
let's break di chain dat remain upon di young youth's brain
an make di point more clear
Lyrics submitted by convince
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