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"
This is a story about the loveless
They were lonely and desperate
Lost in the universe
When their eyes met for the first time
From the back of the room
Anticipation filled their heads of what they would do
The passion grew so deep
They didn't realize the enemy
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
You were so caught up in her golden skin
As the music in the bedroom
Became the soundtrack to your sin
When daybreaks, you will awaken to that unnerving voice
It will rattle your conscience
And sink your heart down to the floor
You stood up tall and said,
"If I could re-live it all again..."
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
And I know,
That only love will mend your broken heart
This loveless life, will only tear your world apart
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
They were lonely and desperate
Lost in the universe
When their eyes met for the first time
From the back of the room
Anticipation filled their heads of what they would do
The passion grew so deep
They didn't realize the enemy
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
You were so caught up in her golden skin
As the music in the bedroom
Became the soundtrack to your sin
When daybreaks, you will awaken to that unnerving voice
It will rattle your conscience
And sink your heart down to the floor
You stood up tall and said,
"If I could re-live it all again..."
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
And I know,
That only love will mend your broken heart
This loveless life, will only tear your world apart
True love, won't let anybody down
True love, isn't fooling anyone around
Lyrics submitted by MCSmate
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