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"
Yeah, yeah
Pray out loud as I pray out loud sittin'
Yeah, yeah
Days are long and my nights are spent wishin'
Hmm, hmm
So it seems I'm complete, doubt that
Hmm, hmm
Silent suffering, baby
Yeah, yeah
Thoughts spin 'round
Yeah, these thoughts spin round my head
Yeah, yeah
Thinkin' 'bout all the special things you said
When I sleep you're what I see, can't shake it
Silent suffering, baby
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
Sunday afternoon
And I'm dreamin' of you
Please don't go throw your love away
I'm missin' you
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
Pray out loud as I pray out loud sittin'
Yeah, yeah
Days are long and my nights are spent wishin'
Hmm, hmm
So it seems I'm complete, doubt that
Hmm, hmm
Silent suffering, baby
Yeah, yeah
Thoughts spin 'round
Yeah, these thoughts spin round my head
Yeah, yeah
Thinkin' 'bout all the special things you said
When I sleep you're what I see, can't shake it
Silent suffering, baby
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
Sunday afternoon
And I'm dreamin' of you
Please don't go throw your love away
I'm missin' you
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
And they say that I'll heal in time
Maybe so, maybe not
Take it slow and you'll soon be fine
Maybe so, maybe not
Lyrics submitted by dannynudds
Maybe So Lyrics as written by Teo Lucas Halm Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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^^ That 1 was about the first verse ^^
As far as the 2nd verse is concerned, Lets say you break up with her, but it don't faze you as much as it does her, cuz you're Mr. Solo Dolo, your mind is stronger than hers, u can handle being alone
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