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"
We take it for granted
All that we have, yeah
Treating our love like it is here to stay
We never question
Or learn from the lessons
Until it's taken away
Now there's one thing I know It's what you've given me, given me
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
We'd lost our direction
Clouded our vision
Didn't know which way we were heading, babe
I still remember, we couldn't tell where I would end and you'd begin
Oh but there's one thing I know I'm not givin' in, givin' in
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
We had good days, holidays, everyday the same way
There's one thing I wanna say
I love you, babe
I'm never given up I don't care what you say
But lately all I see is pain
So baby baby boo, what happend to you
Should we really give it up 'coz look at what we could do
Close your eyes, reminisce, can you see our first kiss?
When I think about it now, damn, I'm losin' it
Oh there's one thing I know that you've given me, given me
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
All that we have, yeah
Treating our love like it is here to stay
We never question
Or learn from the lessons
Until it's taken away
Now there's one thing I know It's what you've given me, given me
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
We'd lost our direction
Clouded our vision
Didn't know which way we were heading, babe
I still remember, we couldn't tell where I would end and you'd begin
Oh but there's one thing I know I'm not givin' in, givin' in
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
We had good days, holidays, everyday the same way
There's one thing I wanna say
I love you, babe
I'm never given up I don't care what you say
But lately all I see is pain
So baby baby boo, what happend to you
Should we really give it up 'coz look at what we could do
Close your eyes, reminisce, can you see our first kiss?
When I think about it now, damn, I'm losin' it
Oh there's one thing I know that you've given me, given me
So where do we go from here? Won't you tell me?
Ain't so good, ain't so bad, ain't too happy, ain't too sad
I'll be me, but you'll be you
Whatever happens cool
Ain't the sunshine, ain't the rain, we're just leaving as we came
All good things, they ain't somehow
Whatever happens now
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Whatever Happens Lyrics as written by Costa Barlow
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