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"
Sunny Skies
Pink Clouds
Blue Cotton Candy
The Graveyard on the top of the mountain
I still think about it, yeah I still think about it
I still think about the old me: little boy lonely
Piece of anxiety
Always worried as to how they're thinking about me
I wish that they could all see the way it is that I'm seein
Because it's so full of color
Im 'bout that loving one another
Spread all that love and give comfort
These are the things that I've been wanting for
To inspire a decrease in the department of warfare
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knockin' on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his hands be
And on some real Hippy shi' - the power of love is real
Like, for real for real
All facts no printer if we learned how to drop our negative demeanors
And instead looked to find beauty in every nature
Then we as the Human populous would have so much more potential to race for
Quote me on that - Geo Falls
Sunny Skies
Pink Clouds
Blue Cotton Candy
The Graveyard on the top of the mountain
I still think about it, yeah I still think about it
I still think about the old me: little boy lonely
Piece of anxiety
Always worried as to how they're thinking about me
I wish that they could all see the way it is that I'm seein
Because it's so full of color
Im 'bout that loving one another
Spread all that love and give comfort
These are the things that I've been wanting for
To inspire a decrease in the department of warfare
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knockin' on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his friends sleep
But his friends are my friends
Made amends with demons
My angels are heathens
No halos on weekends
No horns when in speaking
I promise like pinky
Let love be believed in
'Cause thats what we fiending for
'Cause that's what we fiending for
Just need us a little more
Just need us just need us a little more
Just a little more
I love you
Just a little more
I hope you love yourself too
Peace
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knocking on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his friends sleep
Pink Clouds
Blue Cotton Candy
The Graveyard on the top of the mountain
I still think about it, yeah I still think about it
I still think about the old me: little boy lonely
Piece of anxiety
Always worried as to how they're thinking about me
I wish that they could all see the way it is that I'm seein
Because it's so full of color
Im 'bout that loving one another
Spread all that love and give comfort
These are the things that I've been wanting for
To inspire a decrease in the department of warfare
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knockin' on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his hands be
And on some real Hippy shi' - the power of love is real
Like, for real for real
All facts no printer if we learned how to drop our negative demeanors
And instead looked to find beauty in every nature
Then we as the Human populous would have so much more potential to race for
Quote me on that - Geo Falls
Sunny Skies
Pink Clouds
Blue Cotton Candy
The Graveyard on the top of the mountain
I still think about it, yeah I still think about it
I still think about the old me: little boy lonely
Piece of anxiety
Always worried as to how they're thinking about me
I wish that they could all see the way it is that I'm seein
Because it's so full of color
Im 'bout that loving one another
Spread all that love and give comfort
These are the things that I've been wanting for
To inspire a decrease in the department of warfare
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knockin' on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his friends sleep
But his friends are my friends
Made amends with demons
My angels are heathens
No halos on weekends
No horns when in speaking
I promise like pinky
Let love be believed in
'Cause thats what we fiending for
'Cause that's what we fiending for
Just need us a little more
Just need us just need us a little more
Just a little more
I love you
Just a little more
I hope you love yourself too
Peace
'Cause all is not fare in love and war
I doubt you'd recognize the Devil knocking on your door
Bringing treats and candy: Lies so dandy
In the back of your mind that's where his hands be
That's where his friends sleep
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Love n' War Lyrics as written by George Lowe
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