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 never had given much thought to dancing
But she gave a lot of thought to being asked
Well he'd never been good at coming right on out and asking
And she'd never been given the chance
But something moved him 'cross that old gym floor
When fear was holding fast
And to his surprise the words came at last
And she said yes
To his half-hearted request
And they held on for dear life
'Til the last song played
They won't let go
It's beyond their control
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
From that night on the fire was burning
And they sure did shine in its light
And he knew as long as the old world kept turning
He wanted her by his side
So with a ring and a nervous smile
And some lines that he'd rehearsed
He said the sweetest words that she'd ever heard
And she said yes
To his whole-hearted request
And they held on for dear life
'Til the last stars fade
They won't let go
It's beyond their control
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
But she gave a lot of thought to being asked
Well he'd never been good at coming right on out and asking
And she'd never been given the chance
But something moved him 'cross that old gym floor
When fear was holding fast
And to his surprise the words came at last
And she said yes
To his half-hearted request
And they held on for dear life
'Til the last song played
They won't let go
It's beyond their control
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
From that night on the fire was burning
And they sure did shine in its light
And he knew as long as the old world kept turning
He wanted her by his side
So with a ring and a nervous smile
And some lines that he'd rehearsed
He said the sweetest words that she'd ever heard
And she said yes
To his whole-hearted request
And they held on for dear life
'Til the last stars fade
They won't let go
It's beyond their control
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
They lit a flame with the match God had made
When she said yes
Lyrics submitted by BleedorBreathe
She Said Yes Lyrics as written by Doyle Akins
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Yep. One of those tear-jerker songs. Man meets girl, and asks her to dance, possibly at the prom. She said "yes". They were an item almost instantly. Then he proposed marriage to her, and she said "YES" again! One of the best romantic songs ever! A great wedding song!