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"
Ayo B, What up A?
What we want? Want them to say, woo
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
If you say you want me, yeah
You say you want me
If you do the right thing, we can be together
I'm not easy, yeah, you gotta work for it
I'm the real thing, yeah, you gotta please me
All that talk, and boy you better walk it
All that frontin' and that's not how you do it
If you really need me like you say you need me
Baby, better show me, baby, better come and say
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter for me (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
What you gonna do when somebody convinces me
To believe that he can do it better?
Send me gifts and showin' me the romance
All this, this and that, can you do better?
All I'm saying is love is what I'm looking for
If you wanna keep me, baby, gotta love me more
If you really want me, like you say you want me
If you really need me, baby, better come and say
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (woo)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
If you need me, baby, work it out (uh)
Gotta work it out, gotta work it out (yeah)
If you love me, baby, work it out (woo)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (come on)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
Gotta work it out (yeah), gotta work it out (sing)
If you want my love and all of my time
Part of my plans and part of my mind
All of the things that you wanna do
But make sure your love for me's true to you
Oh, if you show me, baby, believe
So many possibilities
Oh, we can look to infinity
If you wanna be with me, oh
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (one, two, three, go)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (woo)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
If you need me, baby, work it out (uh)
Gotta work it out, gotta work it out (yeah)
If you love me, baby, work it out (woo)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (come on)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
Gotta work it out (yeah), gotta work it out (sing)
What we want? Want them to say, woo
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
If you say you want me, yeah
You say you want me
If you do the right thing, we can be together
I'm not easy, yeah, you gotta work for it
I'm the real thing, yeah, you gotta please me
All that talk, and boy you better walk it
All that frontin' and that's not how you do it
If you really need me like you say you need me
Baby, better show me, baby, better come and say
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter for me (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
What you gonna do when somebody convinces me
To believe that he can do it better?
Send me gifts and showin' me the romance
All this, this and that, can you do better?
All I'm saying is love is what I'm looking for
If you wanna keep me, baby, gotta love me more
If you really want me, like you say you want me
If you really need me, baby, better come and say
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (oh)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (woo)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
If you need me, baby, work it out (uh)
Gotta work it out, gotta work it out (yeah)
If you love me, baby, work it out (woo)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (come on)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
Gotta work it out (yeah), gotta work it out (sing)
If you want my love and all of my time
Part of my plans and part of my mind
All of the things that you wanna do
But make sure your love for me's true to you
Oh, if you show me, baby, believe
So many possibilities
Oh, we can look to infinity
If you wanna be with me, oh
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put it in a love song (put it in a love song)
Say you need me, say you need me
Then write it in a letter form (oh, oh-oh)
Say you want me, say you want me
Then text me on the cell phone (text me on my cell phone)
Say you love me, say you love me
Then put me in a love song (one, two, three, go)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (woo)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
If you need me, baby, work it out (uh)
Gotta work it out, gotta work it out (yeah)
If you love me, baby, work it out (woo)
Gotta work it, baby, work it out (come on)
If you want me, baby, work it out (yeah)
Gotta work it out (yeah), gotta work it out (sing)
Lyrics submitted by Iantuition
Put It In a Love Song Lyrics as written by Kaseem Dean Alicia Augello-cook
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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