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 think I'm falling in love
I think I'm falling in love!
Love love love love love
[Verse 1: ]
You smile a lot
It makes me wonder what you're thinking of, cause
Baby you're always on my mind
[Bridge: ]
And right now I want you with me, here by my side
With me till the end of time
[Chorus: ]
I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you (love love, with you)
It doesn't matter what you say or what you do
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
Just give me a chance and I know I will make you understand
Oh I just can't help my self
I'm falling in love with you
Verse 2:
Don't know if I
Should tell the world just how I'm feeling yet, cause
I want to be sure you feel the same
Bridge:
You're all that I think about and you need to know
There's no other way, no no
Chorus:
I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you (love love, with you)
It doesn't matter what you say or what you do
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
Just give me a chance and I know I will make you understand
Oh I, I just can't help my self
I'm falling in love with you
[Verse 3:]
(You must have been sent)
You must have been sent from heaven above
You're everything I've ever dreamed of
To good to be true, no I don't think so
(Baby, no)
[Bridge: ]
Just give me a chance
And I know I will make you understand
Oh I, I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you
(I know it's love, it's gotta be love)
[Fade Out: ]
I think I'm falling in love
I think I'm falling in love (x3)
I think I'm falling in love!
Love love love love love
[Verse 1: ]
You smile a lot
It makes me wonder what you're thinking of, cause
Baby you're always on my mind
[Bridge: ]
And right now I want you with me, here by my side
With me till the end of time
[Chorus: ]
I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you (love love, with you)
It doesn't matter what you say or what you do
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
Just give me a chance and I know I will make you understand
Oh I just can't help my self
I'm falling in love with you
Verse 2:
Don't know if I
Should tell the world just how I'm feeling yet, cause
I want to be sure you feel the same
Bridge:
You're all that I think about and you need to know
There's no other way, no no
Chorus:
I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you (love love, with you)
It doesn't matter what you say or what you do
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
Just give me a chance and I know I will make you understand
Oh I, I just can't help my self
I'm falling in love with you
[Verse 3:]
(You must have been sent)
You must have been sent from heaven above
You're everything I've ever dreamed of
To good to be true, no I don't think so
(Baby, no)
[Bridge: ]
Just give me a chance
And I know I will make you understand
Oh I, I just can't help myself
I'm falling in love with you
(I know it's love, it's gotta be love)
[Fade Out: ]
I think I'm falling in love
I think I'm falling in love (x3)
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