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"
When all your hope has gone
And everything you love g gone away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's our way
Cause I why sitting on the side
Watching the tide
Drifting away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
Cause I don't think I'm brave enough
To admit I'm breaking up
And when the pain just tears you up
The only thing you need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
It's all just people talking
Does it really matter what they say?
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
Cause I don't care who's right sometimes
I wish they'd all just go away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
I think I've been here long enough
To know what things are really worth
And I can see through all that stuff
Cause all you really need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
Switch yourself back on and
Get yourself back on it
Switch yourself back on and
Get yourself back on it
I think I've been here long enough
To know what things are really worth
And I can see through all that stuff
Cause all you really need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
Whatever gets you through the day
Whatever gets you through the day
Whatever gets you through the day
And everything you love g gone away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's our way
Cause I why sitting on the side
Watching the tide
Drifting away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
Cause I don't think I'm brave enough
To admit I'm breaking up
And when the pain just tears you up
The only thing you need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
It's all just people talking
Does it really matter what they say?
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
Cause I don't care who's right sometimes
I wish they'd all just go away
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way
I think I've been here long enough
To know what things are really worth
And I can see through all that stuff
Cause all you really need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
Switch yourself back on and
Get yourself back on it
Switch yourself back on and
Get yourself back on it
I think I've been here long enough
To know what things are really worth
And I can see through all that stuff
Cause all you really need is love
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
So just get yourself back on it
Another day is gonna come
Keep on praying for it
Aaah
Whatever gets you through the day
Whatever gets you through the day
Whatever gets you through the day
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Whatever Gets You Through the Day Lyrics as written by Tim Laws Paul John Tucker
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