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 know the desert can't hold all the love
That I feel in my heart for you, yea
If I could spread it out across the sea
I know my love would cork it up
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
If the bees only knew how sweet you are baby
They would seal up their honeycomb
If the birds could hear how sweet your voice is
They would tighten up the song
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Your lips are so sweet, honey, you're my every need
You've got a smile so rare
A love like yours
I just can't compare
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
If the cook in the kitchen had a touch as hot as yours
They wouldn't need a fire
I can't think of a word that describes you better
Than the sight of her
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
One heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold, oh
Oh, that's a lot of love
Sure that's a lot of love for one heart to hold
For one heart to hold, oh hold
Ain't that a lot of love
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
That I feel in my heart for you, yea
If I could spread it out across the sea
I know my love would cork it up
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
If the bees only knew how sweet you are baby
They would seal up their honeycomb
If the birds could hear how sweet your voice is
They would tighten up the song
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Your lips are so sweet, honey, you're my every need
You've got a smile so rare
A love like yours
I just can't compare
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
If the cook in the kitchen had a touch as hot as yours
They wouldn't need a fire
I can't think of a word that describes you better
Than the sight of her
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
One heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold, oh
Oh, that's a lot of love
Sure that's a lot of love for one heart to hold
For one heart to hold, oh hold
Ain't that a lot of love
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love
Ain't that a lot of love for one heart to hold
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Ain't That a Lot of Love [DVD] Lyrics as written by Willia Dean Parker Homer Banks
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Anthem Entertainment
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