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"
I wake up while you lie sleepin'
I take one look at you and wonder
Am I still dreamin'?
Are you some kind of angel come down to save me
Or just some place my imagination's tryin' to take me?
What have I done to deserve what I feel?
You give me somethin' that's too good to be real
How does a treasure like you fall into my hands?
I need to know just one thing
I still don't understand
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Why me, why me?
I ain't got a clue, maybe just a notion
Sometimes I'm helplessly adrift out in the ocean
I feel like a child with one sole intention
In search of an answer that defies all comprehension
I'm in too deep, but that's what you're all about
Got no hope or desire of finding my way out
How does a treasure like you fall into my hands?
I need to know that one thing
Can you help me understand?
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Could've been anyone in this world
Why me?
Every lesson that I've learned
You've come to me and shown me
What it means to be loved
What it means to be loved
Why me, why me, why me, why me?
Help me understand just what you've done to me
'Cause I'm the richest man that I could ever be
Tell me why, tell me why, baby
Why me, why me, why me, why me?
Help me understand just what you've done to me
'Cause I'm the richest man that I could ever be
Tell me why, tell me why, baby
I take one look at you and wonder
Am I still dreamin'?
Are you some kind of angel come down to save me
Or just some place my imagination's tryin' to take me?
What have I done to deserve what I feel?
You give me somethin' that's too good to be real
How does a treasure like you fall into my hands?
I need to know just one thing
I still don't understand
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Why me, why me?
I ain't got a clue, maybe just a notion
Sometimes I'm helplessly adrift out in the ocean
I feel like a child with one sole intention
In search of an answer that defies all comprehension
I'm in too deep, but that's what you're all about
Got no hope or desire of finding my way out
How does a treasure like you fall into my hands?
I need to know that one thing
Can you help me understand?
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Why do you love me?
Why do you give so much?
How do you heal the pain within me?
Is it the power of your touch?
Now that you've opened up the heavens
For this heart of mine to see
I've become the richest man that I could ever be
Baby, why, baby, why me?
Could've been anyone in this world
Why me?
Every lesson that I've learned
You've come to me and shown me
What it means to be loved
What it means to be loved
Why me, why me, why me, why me?
Help me understand just what you've done to me
'Cause I'm the richest man that I could ever be
Tell me why, tell me why, baby
Why me, why me, why me, why me?
Help me understand just what you've done to me
'Cause I'm the richest man that I could ever be
Tell me why, tell me why, baby
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Why Me Lyrics as written by Michael Bolton Kenneth Edmonds
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