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 do love you!
(Ooh)
You can have a piece of my love (Ooh)
It's waitin' for you (Ooh)
Boy it's true
(I-I-I-I...)
You can have a piece of my love (Lovin' baby)
It's waiting for you (Hey)
Boy it's true
You can have a
Baby you can't have all of me
'Cause I'm not totally free
I can't tell you everything that's goin' on
Baby
There's a few things in my past
That should not be explained
I'm askin' you baby
Be with me for a lil' while (You can have a)
Please hush
No questions asked
Lay back and relax boy (I do love you, boy it's true)
Now kick off your shoes
Now put your head down (Is waiting for you)
Since we're here now baby
I'm givin' you a piece of me you can't have (You can have a)
[Chorus:]
You can have a piece of my love (My love)
It's waiting for you (For you, waiting for you)
Girl it's true (You can have a piece of my love)
You can have a piece of my love (My love)
It's waiting for you (For you, waiting for you)
Girl it's true (You can have a piece of my love)
I do love you
I know that this is wrong
But the feelin's so strong
I wish this could last forever
But it wouldn't be the same
Tell me who would be to blame
Is we were to hurt all over again (You can have a)
Please hush (You can have a piece of my love)
No questions asked
Lay back and relax (I do love you)
Take off your shoes
Let your pretty sexy hair down (Girl it's true)
It's time now baby
I'm givin' you a piece of my love (You can have a)
[Chorus:]
You can have a
(I do love you, girl it's true)
Kick off your shoes
Let your pretty head down
Let's make love... over and over and over and over again
(You can have a)
Chorus:
You can have a piece of my love (My love baby)
It's waitin' for you (For you...)
I want to make love over and over and over again
Girl it's true
I do love you
(Ooh)
You can have a piece of my love (Ooh)
It's waitin' for you (Ooh)
Boy it's true
(I-I-I-I...)
You can have a piece of my love (Lovin' baby)
It's waiting for you (Hey)
Boy it's true
You can have a
Baby you can't have all of me
'Cause I'm not totally free
I can't tell you everything that's goin' on
Baby
There's a few things in my past
That should not be explained
I'm askin' you baby
Be with me for a lil' while (You can have a)
Please hush
No questions asked
Lay back and relax boy (I do love you, boy it's true)
Now kick off your shoes
Now put your head down (Is waiting for you)
Since we're here now baby
I'm givin' you a piece of me you can't have (You can have a)
[Chorus:]
You can have a piece of my love (My love)
It's waiting for you (For you, waiting for you)
Girl it's true (You can have a piece of my love)
You can have a piece of my love (My love)
It's waiting for you (For you, waiting for you)
Girl it's true (You can have a piece of my love)
I do love you
I know that this is wrong
But the feelin's so strong
I wish this could last forever
But it wouldn't be the same
Tell me who would be to blame
Is we were to hurt all over again (You can have a)
Please hush (You can have a piece of my love)
No questions asked
Lay back and relax (I do love you)
Take off your shoes
Let your pretty sexy hair down (Girl it's true)
It's time now baby
I'm givin' you a piece of my love (You can have a)
[Chorus:]
You can have a
(I do love you, girl it's true)
Kick off your shoes
Let your pretty head down
Let's make love... over and over and over and over again
(You can have a)
Chorus:
You can have a piece of my love (My love baby)
It's waitin' for you (For you...)
I want to make love over and over and over again
Girl it's true
I do love you
Lyrics submitted by SavageSoul
I Do Love You (Piece of My Love) Lyrics as written by Marion Marie Hall Ali Campbell
Lyrics © Royalty Network
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