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"
Stand beside me stand beside me you're the only one who ever made me care
I can't stand to think that I might be alone
Not alone again not the way it was back then
Before you walked into my heart and told me we would never part
So stand beside me don't ever let me be alone again
Stand beside me stand beside me for if I should lose you I just couldn't get anywhere
Stand beside me stand beside me you're the only one who ever made me care
There'll be times when everything goes wrong
But darling I won't care if I know you're standing there
No matter what we have to do together we can see it through
So stand beside me and I'll be standing right there next to you
Stand beside me
I can't stand to think that I might be alone
Not alone again not the way it was back then
Before you walked into my heart and told me we would never part
So stand beside me don't ever let me be alone again
Stand beside me stand beside me for if I should lose you I just couldn't get anywhere
Stand beside me stand beside me you're the only one who ever made me care
There'll be times when everything goes wrong
But darling I won't care if I know you're standing there
No matter what we have to do together we can see it through
So stand beside me and I'll be standing right there next to you
Stand beside me
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Stand Beside Me Lyrics as written by Bruce Gaitsch Marc Wallace Jordan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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