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"
(Gotta, gotta keep you)
(Got, got, got)
(Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Oh (got, got, got, gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Oh
For you I'd write a symphony
I'd tell the violin
"It's time to sink or swim"
Watch 'em play for ya
For you I'd be, whoa, oh
Running a thousand miles
Just to get to where you are
Step to the beat of my heart
I don't need a whole lot but for you I admit I'd
Rather give you the world or we can share mine
I know I won't be the first one
Givin' you all this attention, baby, listen
I just need somebody to love
I, I don't need too much
Just need somebody to love
Somebody to love
I don't need nothing else, I promise, girl, I swear
I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
Everyday, I bring the sun around
I sweep away the clouds
Smile for me (smile for me)
I would take, every second, every single time
Spend it like my last dime, step to the beat of my heart
I don't need a whole lot but for you I admit I'd
Rather give you the world or we can share mine
I know I won't be the first one
Givin' you all this attention, baby, listen
I just need somebody to love (oh, no, no)
I, I don't need too much
Just somebody to love
Somebody to love
I don't need nothing else, I promise, girl, I swear
I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (somebody to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I just need somebody to love (yeah)
And you can have it all, anything you want
I can bring you, give you the finer things, yeah
But what I really want, I can't find, 'cause
Money can't find me somebody to love, oh
(Gotta, gotta keep you)
(Got, got, got) find me somebody to love, oh
(Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
I need somebody to love, yeah
I, I don't need too much
Just somebody to love, somebody to love
I don't need nothing else
I promise, girl, I swear, I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody (I swear I just need somebody to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (I need somebody)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (I need somebody)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (to love)
Is she out there? (Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Is she out there?
Is she out there? (To love, to love, to love) (but I)
Is she out there? (Like)
I just need somebody to love
(Got, got, got)
(Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Oh (got, got, got, gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Oh
For you I'd write a symphony
I'd tell the violin
"It's time to sink or swim"
Watch 'em play for ya
For you I'd be, whoa, oh
Running a thousand miles
Just to get to where you are
Step to the beat of my heart
I don't need a whole lot but for you I admit I'd
Rather give you the world or we can share mine
I know I won't be the first one
Givin' you all this attention, baby, listen
I just need somebody to love
I, I don't need too much
Just need somebody to love
Somebody to love
I don't need nothing else, I promise, girl, I swear
I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
Everyday, I bring the sun around
I sweep away the clouds
Smile for me (smile for me)
I would take, every second, every single time
Spend it like my last dime, step to the beat of my heart
I don't need a whole lot but for you I admit I'd
Rather give you the world or we can share mine
I know I won't be the first one
Givin' you all this attention, baby, listen
I just need somebody to love (oh, no, no)
I, I don't need too much
Just somebody to love
Somebody to love
I don't need nothing else, I promise, girl, I swear
I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (somebody to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I just need somebody to love (yeah)
And you can have it all, anything you want
I can bring you, give you the finer things, yeah
But what I really want, I can't find, 'cause
Money can't find me somebody to love, oh
(Gotta, gotta keep you)
(Got, got, got) find me somebody to love, oh
(Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
I need somebody to love, yeah
I, I don't need too much
Just somebody to love, somebody to love
I don't need nothing else
I promise, girl, I swear, I just need somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody, I, I need somebody somebody to love
I need somebody, I, I need somebody
I need somebody (I swear I just need somebody to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (I need somebody)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (I need somebody)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (to love)
I need somebody, I, I need somebody (to love)
Is she out there? (Gotta, gotta keep you closer, it feels so right)
Is she out there?
Is she out there? (To love, to love, to love) (but I)
Is she out there? (Like)
I just need somebody to love
Lyrics submitted by tugboatlove1
Somebody to Love Lyrics as written by Jeremy Reeves Heather Bright
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