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"
Ha ha yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Oh my pretty little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
My little precious angel
Don't you know I'm glad I found ya
I'm gonna dedicate my life to you
And build my world around you
I'm gonna love you through the years
I'll never bring you pain nor tears
I wanna keep you satisfied
So you'll never, never, never leave my side
Oh my pretty little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
'Cause I love ya and I need ya
And I'll treat you oh so kind
If you ever leave me baby
I'd go right out of my mind
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Girl you're my sunshine
You make me smile when skies are grey
But I'll never, never smile again
If somebody take my sunshine away
So I'm gonna work and toil, sweat and strain
Try to give you everything
So no rich man, poor man beggar man thief
Could ever steal you away from me
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
'Cause I love ya and I need ya
And I want you for myself
I couldn't make it baby
If you leave me for somebody else
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you never ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Oh my pretty little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
My little precious angel
Don't you know I'm glad I found ya
I'm gonna dedicate my life to you
And build my world around you
I'm gonna love you through the years
I'll never bring you pain nor tears
I wanna keep you satisfied
So you'll never, never, never leave my side
Oh my pretty little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
'Cause I love ya and I need ya
And I'll treat you oh so kind
If you ever leave me baby
I'd go right out of my mind
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Girl you're my sunshine
You make me smile when skies are grey
But I'll never, never smile again
If somebody take my sunshine away
So I'm gonna work and toil, sweat and strain
Try to give you everything
So no rich man, poor man beggar man thief
Could ever steal you away from me
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
'Cause I love ya and I need ya
And I want you for myself
I couldn't make it baby
If you leave me for somebody else
My little angel baby
Don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you never ever leave me
Angel baby don't you spread your wings
Angel baby don't you ever leave me
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Angel Baby (Don't You Ever Leave Me) Lyrics as written by Henry Cosby Angelica Moy-adams
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