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 can make my mind up, I can put my foot down
Yeah, I can stand my ground, resolve that I'm not gonna fall
I can try to evade it and try to avoid it
And tell myself to just ignore it, but I know that order's just too tall
'Cause there's the vision of your eyes
The linger of your touch, it's too much
And here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love oh that's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Like the sunrise, like the four seasons, oh, it just keeps repeating
Yeah, it's a constant in my world
So I might as well give and I might as well face it
Just open up my arms and embrace it, because I know I love you girl
'Cause there's a meaning in my life
A connection in our soul, here I go
And here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love oh that's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Now here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love well it's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Beating it into my mind
Yeah, I can stand my ground, resolve that I'm not gonna fall
I can try to evade it and try to avoid it
And tell myself to just ignore it, but I know that order's just too tall
'Cause there's the vision of your eyes
The linger of your touch, it's too much
And here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love oh that's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Like the sunrise, like the four seasons, oh, it just keeps repeating
Yeah, it's a constant in my world
So I might as well give and I might as well face it
Just open up my arms and embrace it, because I know I love you girl
'Cause there's a meaning in my life
A connection in our soul, here I go
And here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love oh that's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Now here it comes like a rolling thunder
Like a wall of marching soldiers
Oh, it just takes me over and I can't fight it, no
Yeah, well it's just your love well it's a burning in my blood
So tell me, how on earth can I deny it
When my heart keeps beating it into my mind?
Beating it into my mind
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