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"
We've been friends for a long, long time
You tell me your secrets and I tell you mine
She's left you all alone and you feel like no one cares
But I have never failed you I've always been there
You tell your story it sounds a bit like mine
It's the same old situation, it happens every time
Can't we see oh maybe you and me
Is what's meant to be
Or do we disagree?
What if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Do we dare to cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
Or would I lose a friend?
Or find a love that would never end?
What if I said
She doesn't love you
Oh, it's plain to see
I can read between the lines of what your telling me
And he doesn't hold you the way a woman should be held
How long can I go on keeping these feelings to myself
So what if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Do we dare to cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
Or would I lose a friend?
Or find a love that would never end?
What if I said
Oh and we've both had our share of loneliness
So who's to say we can't have a little happiness
And if I found that in you
It would make my dreams come true
Or would you walk away?
Hear what I have to say
What if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Oh, do we dare cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
I've always wondered from the day that we met
What if I said
What if I said
Ooh
What if I said
You tell me your secrets and I tell you mine
She's left you all alone and you feel like no one cares
But I have never failed you I've always been there
You tell your story it sounds a bit like mine
It's the same old situation, it happens every time
Can't we see oh maybe you and me
Is what's meant to be
Or do we disagree?
What if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Do we dare to cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
Or would I lose a friend?
Or find a love that would never end?
What if I said
She doesn't love you
Oh, it's plain to see
I can read between the lines of what your telling me
And he doesn't hold you the way a woman should be held
How long can I go on keeping these feelings to myself
So what if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Do we dare to cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
Or would I lose a friend?
Or find a love that would never end?
What if I said
Oh and we've both had our share of loneliness
So who's to say we can't have a little happiness
And if I found that in you
It would make my dreams come true
Or would you walk away?
Hear what I have to say
What if I told you, what if I said
That I love you?
How would you feel?
What would you think?
What would we do?
Oh, do we dare cross that line
Between your heart and mine?
I've always wondered from the day that we met
What if I said
What if I said
Ooh
What if I said
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