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"
I've seen it in movies and TV shows
wrapped up with roses and pretty bows
but that's just not the way my story goes
I get the love 'em and leave 'em kinds
The ones that can never make up their minds
But i know that next time
I'm gonna get my ever after
There's gonna be ups and downs
Twists and turns
maybe a crash and burn
When I find the one I'm gonna let him know what I've learned
This is my definition of love
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
And sometimes we're gonna fight
Cause we both like to be right
But love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Tired of making the same mistakes
Finding the ones that don't wanna stay
We hit a bump in the road, they just split like an earthquake
There's gonna be highs and lows
Good and bad, and there's nothing wrong with that
But you gotta stick it out and dig your heels in to make it last
This is my definition of love
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
and sometimes we are gonna fight
'cause we both like to be right
but i am finally learning to say that I'm sorry and swallow my pride
This is my definition of love
Oh, we gotta stick together no matter what
and we're gonna make mistakes
and hearts are gonna break
but love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Never gonna leave you, love
It's never gonna diss you
When you're falling down when you make a big mistake
When you wake up in the morning
With nothing, there's love
the kind's that is
gonna kiss you, love
The kind that's gonna miss you
That's my definition of this thing called love
Yeah
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
and sometimes we are gonna fight
'cause we both like to be right
But I am finally learning to say that I'm sorry and swallow my pride
This is my definition of love
Oh, we gotta stick together no matter what
and we're gonna make mistakes
and hearts are gonna break
but love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Oh, love (never giving up)
My definition of love
wrapped up with roses and pretty bows
but that's just not the way my story goes
I get the love 'em and leave 'em kinds
The ones that can never make up their minds
But i know that next time
I'm gonna get my ever after
There's gonna be ups and downs
Twists and turns
maybe a crash and burn
When I find the one I'm gonna let him know what I've learned
This is my definition of love
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
And sometimes we're gonna fight
Cause we both like to be right
But love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Tired of making the same mistakes
Finding the ones that don't wanna stay
We hit a bump in the road, they just split like an earthquake
There's gonna be highs and lows
Good and bad, and there's nothing wrong with that
But you gotta stick it out and dig your heels in to make it last
This is my definition of love
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
and sometimes we are gonna fight
'cause we both like to be right
but i am finally learning to say that I'm sorry and swallow my pride
This is my definition of love
Oh, we gotta stick together no matter what
and we're gonna make mistakes
and hearts are gonna break
but love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Never gonna leave you, love
It's never gonna diss you
When you're falling down when you make a big mistake
When you wake up in the morning
With nothing, there's love
the kind's that is
gonna kiss you, love
The kind that's gonna miss you
That's my definition of this thing called love
Yeah
It's not perfect, but it's never giving up
and sometimes we are gonna fight
'cause we both like to be right
But I am finally learning to say that I'm sorry and swallow my pride
This is my definition of love
Oh, we gotta stick together no matter what
and we're gonna make mistakes
and hearts are gonna break
but love is unconditional
and that's my definition of love
Oh, love (never giving up)
My definition of love
Lyrics submitted by Kemmi
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