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"
Your heart is my need
And I love what it means to succeed
As your fate is my prize
Love you're breathe in me
It's what keeps me alive
Hold on 'till forever is gone
Hold on to whatever it takes
To go on and on and on, oh baby
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The love that we make is all in the way that we live
The way that we live
In my dreams I can fly
In your arms, there's no earth, no sky
There's one truth, no lies
There's no distance between us
Just trust in our lives
Hold on 'till forever is gone
Hold on to whatever it takes to go on and on, oh baby
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The love that we make is all in the way that we live
The way that we live, the way that we live
In our lives there's so much useless information
The truth is as simple as the air that we breathe
So many souls with the need for human affirmation
You and I choose to believe we are free!
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The paths that we take it's all in the way that we live
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
This is the way that we live
And I love what it means to succeed
As your fate is my prize
Love you're breathe in me
It's what keeps me alive
Hold on 'till forever is gone
Hold on to whatever it takes
To go on and on and on, oh baby
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The love that we make is all in the way that we live
The way that we live
In my dreams I can fly
In your arms, there's no earth, no sky
There's one truth, no lies
There's no distance between us
Just trust in our lives
Hold on 'till forever is gone
Hold on to whatever it takes to go on and on, oh baby
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The love that we make is all in the way that we live
The way that we live, the way that we live
In our lives there's so much useless information
The truth is as simple as the air that we breathe
So many souls with the need for human affirmation
You and I choose to believe we are free!
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
The paths that we take it's all in the way that we live
This is the way that we live
This is the world where our dreams survive
Fight for the love that we give
This is the way that we live
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This Is the Way Lyrics as written by Andy Goldmark Michael Bolton
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