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"
You ought'a stay babe
Stay babe
For a while, to love was all we could do
We were young and we knew, and our eyes were alive
Deep inside we knew our love was true
For a while we paid no mind to the past
We knew love would last
Every night somethin' right
Would invite us to begin the dance
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy was sad
Somethin' happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had
Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me one
And not let me stay around?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?
For a while to love each other
It was all we would ever need
Love was strong for so long
Never knew that what was wrong
Baby, wasn't right
We tried to find what we had
'Til sadness was all we shared
We were scared this affair
Would lead our love into
Somethin' happened along the way
Yesterday was all we had
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy is sad
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be was all we had
Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh
After the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Stay babe
For a while, to love was all we could do
We were young and we knew, and our eyes were alive
Deep inside we knew our love was true
For a while we paid no mind to the past
We knew love would last
Every night somethin' right
Would invite us to begin the dance
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy was sad
Somethin' happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had
Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me one
And not let me stay around?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?
For a while to love each other
It was all we would ever need
Love was strong for so long
Never knew that what was wrong
Baby, wasn't right
We tried to find what we had
'Til sadness was all we shared
We were scared this affair
Would lead our love into
Somethin' happened along the way
Yesterday was all we had
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy is sad
Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be was all we had
Oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh
After the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
Oh-oh-oh, after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found
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After the Love Has Gone Lyrics as written by Jay Graydon David Foster
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, GARDEN RAKE MUSIC
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