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"
When they ask for my autograph
I catch you in the corner of my eye
Yet I know that smile upon your face
Means we made it girl you and I
From the hard life
On the south side
To the spotlight here on the stage
Now watch we play
Mm hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Without you no telling where I'd be
Singing me a different song
Mm breaking rocks for ten or twenty years
But you wouldn't let me go wrong
Standing by me
Cause you love me
Now darling this one's for you
Now watch me play
Wo hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Watch me play
Wo you got to hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Now watch me play
Wo hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
I catch you in the corner of my eye
Yet I know that smile upon your face
Means we made it girl you and I
From the hard life
On the south side
To the spotlight here on the stage
Now watch we play
Mm hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Without you no telling where I'd be
Singing me a different song
Mm breaking rocks for ten or twenty years
But you wouldn't let me go wrong
Standing by me
Cause you love me
Now darling this one's for you
Now watch me play
Wo hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Watch me play
Wo you got to hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
Now watch me play
Wo hear me sing
La la la la la la la la
I play and sing for you
La la la la
Hear the applause
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I Play and Sing Lyrics as written by Irwin Levine Leroy Russell Brown
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