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 ain't crazy
I ain't gonna lie anymore
What you're feelin'
There's a reason for
I wanna do right
Oh, gotta do right
Do I love you?
Oh, you know I've tried
But what you're after
You can't find in my eyes
I'm gonna do right
Darlin'
Tell the truth
Don't turn away
This is our last chance
To touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
One by one
We're collecting lies
When you can't give love
You give alibis
Now I'm gonna do right
This time I got to do right
I don't wanna leave
I don't wanna say goodbye
Sooner or later, honey
There comes a time
Mama, when you gotta do right
Come on, come on
Darlin'
Tell the truth
Don't turn away
From this one last chance
Touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
Why are you so torn apart?
I need a little more loving in my heart
People say that love will grow
So how was I to know
Love that's come through years and years
Can't find a way back home
Anymore
Darlin'
Tell me the truth
Don't turn away
This is our final chance
To touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
But maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
I know
Well, the only way to start
This time is heart to heart
I ain't gonna lie anymore
What you're feelin'
There's a reason for
I wanna do right
Oh, gotta do right
Do I love you?
Oh, you know I've tried
But what you're after
You can't find in my eyes
I'm gonna do right
Darlin'
Tell the truth
Don't turn away
This is our last chance
To touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
One by one
We're collecting lies
When you can't give love
You give alibis
Now I'm gonna do right
This time I got to do right
I don't wanna leave
I don't wanna say goodbye
Sooner or later, honey
There comes a time
Mama, when you gotta do right
Come on, come on
Darlin'
Tell the truth
Don't turn away
From this one last chance
Touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
Why are you so torn apart?
I need a little more loving in my heart
People say that love will grow
So how was I to know
Love that's come through years and years
Can't find a way back home
Anymore
Darlin'
Tell me the truth
Don't turn away
This is our final chance
To touch each other's heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
Maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
Does anything last forever?
I don't know
But maybe we're near the end
(So, darlin', tell me)
So, darlin', oh
How can we go on together
Now that we've grown apart
Well, the only way to start
Is heart to heart
I know
Well, the only way to start
This time is heart to heart
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Heart to Heart Lyrics as written by Michael H Mcdonald David Foster
Lyrics © Gnossos Music / Milk Money Music, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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