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"
Oh yeah baby, oh now girl, oh now lover
Gonna stake my claim, gonna stand my ground
Gonna love you while the world spins around
Gonna be with you for the rest of my days
And nothing's gonna stand in be way
'Cause I want you baby, I need you baby
I want to feel your body close to mine
I mean it baby, believe me baby
I know it to be true, 'cos
[Chorus:]
Every time you go away
I kick myself, and then I say
I'm a fool to let you go
Understand I need you so
Every time you go away
I can't believe it then I say
I'm a fool to let you go
You're the one I need to know
Ooh now baby, ooh now lover
Gonna lift you up, make you feel alright
I'm gonna make you whole tonight
Gonna make you close. I'm gonna keep you near
I'll love you for a thousand years and
I want you baby, I need you baby
I want to feel your body next to mine
I mean it baby, believe me baby
I know it to be true, 'cos
[Chorus:]
Oh I know, that you're the one I need to know
When the night are long
You know I'll be right here, I'll chase away your fears
And the days are so grey
You know you'll find me here, anyway
Gonna hold you tonight, every time you go away
Gonna hold you tonight, I kick myself and then I say
Gonna hold you tonight, I'm a fool to let you go
Gonna hold you tonight, you're the one I need to know
[Chorus:]
Gonna stake my claim, gonna stand my ground
Gonna love you while the world spins around
Gonna be with you for the rest of my days
And nothing's gonna stand in be way
'Cause I want you baby, I need you baby
I want to feel your body close to mine
I mean it baby, believe me baby
I know it to be true, 'cos
[Chorus:]
Every time you go away
I kick myself, and then I say
I'm a fool to let you go
Understand I need you so
Every time you go away
I can't believe it then I say
I'm a fool to let you go
You're the one I need to know
Ooh now baby, ooh now lover
Gonna lift you up, make you feel alright
I'm gonna make you whole tonight
Gonna make you close. I'm gonna keep you near
I'll love you for a thousand years and
I want you baby, I need you baby
I want to feel your body next to mine
I mean it baby, believe me baby
I know it to be true, 'cos
[Chorus:]
Oh I know, that you're the one I need to know
When the night are long
You know I'll be right here, I'll chase away your fears
And the days are so grey
You know you'll find me here, anyway
Gonna hold you tonight, every time you go away
Gonna hold you tonight, I kick myself and then I say
Gonna hold you tonight, I'm a fool to let you go
Gonna hold you tonight, you're the one I need to know
[Chorus:]
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