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"
Business as usual usually goes
All the way always and never means no
You shoot past the mountains en route to the store
There's no time, no windows for us anymore
Once there were hours of just sitting still
And there will be
There will be
Starting right now there is this I must do
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz
Working all day and into the night
Well, we are not no ways suggesting that's right
We do what we've done from force of habit
And if we find a way out, we might as well grab it
Once there were hours of just standing still
And there will be
There will be
Starting right now, I've got nothing to lose
I want to learn to waltz, oh
Two arms curled at the waist, and then
Two hands held out in space, and then
Three, four, let there be more
And there will be; believe me
Oh, two arms curled at the waist, and then
Two hands held out in space, and then
Three, four, let there be more
And there will be; believe me
Millions of moments and dozens of days
And all of them covered in blue misty haze
What were we doing that brought us both here?
Well, maybe three, four time will help things to clear
Maybe it only takes our opened eyes
And it thrills me
It thrills me
Thinking of holding you close pulls me through
I want to learn to waltz
Well, starting right now, there is this I must do
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz
I want to learn to waltz
Well, starting right now, I've got nothing to lose
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz with you
All the way always and never means no
You shoot past the mountains en route to the store
There's no time, no windows for us anymore
Once there were hours of just sitting still
And there will be
There will be
Starting right now there is this I must do
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz
Working all day and into the night
Well, we are not no ways suggesting that's right
We do what we've done from force of habit
And if we find a way out, we might as well grab it
Once there were hours of just standing still
And there will be
There will be
Starting right now, I've got nothing to lose
I want to learn to waltz, oh
Two arms curled at the waist, and then
Two hands held out in space, and then
Three, four, let there be more
And there will be; believe me
Oh, two arms curled at the waist, and then
Two hands held out in space, and then
Three, four, let there be more
And there will be; believe me
Millions of moments and dozens of days
And all of them covered in blue misty haze
What were we doing that brought us both here?
Well, maybe three, four time will help things to clear
Maybe it only takes our opened eyes
And it thrills me
It thrills me
Thinking of holding you close pulls me through
I want to learn to waltz
Well, starting right now, there is this I must do
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz
I want to learn to waltz
Well, starting right now, I've got nothing to lose
I want to learn to waltz with you
I want to learn to waltz with you
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I Want to Learn to Waltz with You Lyrics as written by Peter Holsapple
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