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"
Some people say that love is a rose - and maybe they've hit
It right on the nose
But other folks say that it's like the sun
Well a long time ago daddy said to me 'son I'll help clear
Up the mystery - I'll give you a simple rule of thumb'
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
Now the dictionary won't tell you much - if love is the word
You're lookin' up
No I don't believe that definition's right
And the encyclopedia won't reveal the crazy way you start
To feel - kissin' on a moonlit summer night cause
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
So go on and say that love is a game - or maybe compare it
To a flame
Or say it's a medicine that heals
'cause a panel of experts could fight all night - and never
figure out which one is right
but they'd agree on how it makes you feel
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
Yeah if it makes your world go round - then it's love
It right on the nose
But other folks say that it's like the sun
Well a long time ago daddy said to me 'son I'll help clear
Up the mystery - I'll give you a simple rule of thumb'
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
Now the dictionary won't tell you much - if love is the word
You're lookin' up
No I don't believe that definition's right
And the encyclopedia won't reveal the crazy way you start
To feel - kissin' on a moonlit summer night cause
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
So go on and say that love is a game - or maybe compare it
To a flame
Or say it's a medicine that heals
'cause a panel of experts could fight all night - and never
figure out which one is right
but they'd agree on how it makes you feel
If it knocks you off your feet - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your life complete - then it's love - then it's love
If it turns you upside down - then it's love - then it's love
If it makes your world go round then it's love
Yeah if it makes your world go round - then it's love
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Then It's Love Lyrics as written by Dennis Linde
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