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"
This song is dedicated to my brother
Patrick O'Dell Reilly
Ooh
Oh oh, ooh
I was in misery without you
I could not imagine life without you
It was such a painful thing to go through
Have you bein' taken away
But I, I dried my tears
Even though it took a couple of years
I guess I had to just get over my fears
Of bein' alone
But it gets
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
I thought my life was over without you
Thought I would be oh so sad darlin'
'Cause you left me here to face all my fears
All by myself, with nobody else
Now that you're gone, I just gotta move on
But my love'll never change
It'll always stay the same
I felt you were gone, the lonely nights alone
I get weak, then I'm strong
It gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
Sometimes it's really hard to just let go
Don't feel like movin' on, oh, yet I know
Just breathin' air is hard to bare
When the one that you love is not there
Thoughts of you sit heavy on my mind
I always reminisce on our good times
I just take it day by day
I know that it'll never be easy
But I can say, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
Patrick O'Dell Reilly
Ooh
Oh oh, ooh
I was in misery without you
I could not imagine life without you
It was such a painful thing to go through
Have you bein' taken away
But I, I dried my tears
Even though it took a couple of years
I guess I had to just get over my fears
Of bein' alone
But it gets
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
I thought my life was over without you
Thought I would be oh so sad darlin'
'Cause you left me here to face all my fears
All by myself, with nobody else
Now that you're gone, I just gotta move on
But my love'll never change
It'll always stay the same
I felt you were gone, the lonely nights alone
I get weak, then I'm strong
It gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
Sometimes it's really hard to just let go
Don't feel like movin' on, oh, yet I know
Just breathin' air is hard to bare
When the one that you love is not there
Thoughts of you sit heavy on my mind
I always reminisce on our good times
I just take it day by day
I know that it'll never be easy
But I can say, it gets easier
It gets, it gets easier
Without you
I won't feel right
I can't feel right
Without you
But it gets, it gets easier
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