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"
For as long, long as I can remember
It's been December, no sun,
No summertime to treasure, we weren't grown
And every time that they told us surrender, it will be better
We just go holding on 'til forever for what we know
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
For as long, long as she can remember
She wanted better, no home
No one there to protect her, all alone
And so she told me I was her center
Nothing could tempt her
I still roamed just like her father left her
Ooh, he left her
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
Isn't it bad, you been a good victim
You thought I was worth it, you act like I would listen
And maybe you were right at one point, someday
I use to watch you treat the streets like a runway
I use to write with tears coming down your pretty painted face
Sign language on your back from the first taste
So when he whispers in your ear and you think of me
You wish I would've treated you like you treated me
When you wake up from your dreams of the hallway
Sleepwalking through the streets dressed in all gray
Making streetlamps in the windowpane
I worried from the second that I learned your name
Everything in love is lie
But where was I last night?
And why don't you feel right?
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
It's been December, no sun,
No summertime to treasure, we weren't grown
And every time that they told us surrender, it will be better
We just go holding on 'til forever for what we know
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
For as long, long as she can remember
She wanted better, no home
No one there to protect her, all alone
And so she told me I was her center
Nothing could tempt her
I still roamed just like her father left her
Ooh, he left her
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
Isn't it bad, you been a good victim
You thought I was worth it, you act like I would listen
And maybe you were right at one point, someday
I use to watch you treat the streets like a runway
I use to write with tears coming down your pretty painted face
Sign language on your back from the first taste
So when he whispers in your ear and you think of me
You wish I would've treated you like you treated me
When you wake up from your dreams of the hallway
Sleepwalking through the streets dressed in all gray
Making streetlamps in the windowpane
I worried from the second that I learned your name
Everything in love is lie
But where was I last night?
And why don't you feel right?
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
Broken lover, yes, I made you
Believe that I would be the one to heal you
And if you go now, out that doorway
I won't say your wrong
But you know that I worry about you
Lyrics submitted by xoxoljxoxo
Worry About You Lyrics as written by Marc Griffin Tyler Cordy
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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