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 have time for racism
We have time for criticism
Held bondage by our ism's
When will there be a time to love?
We make time to debate religion
Passing bills and building prisons
For building fortunes and passing judgments
When will there be a time to love?
At this point in history
We have a choice to make
To either walk a path of love
Or be crippled by our hate
We have time to cause pollution
We have time to cause confusion
All wrapped up in our own illusions
When will there be a time to love?
We make time to conquer nations
Time for oil excavation
Hatred, violence and terrorism
When will there be a time to love?
At this moment in time
We have a choice to make
Father God is watching
While we cause mother earth so much pain
It's such a shame
Not enough money for
The young, the old and the poor
But for war there's always more
When will there be a time to love?
We make time for paying taxes
Or paying bills and buying status
But we will pay the consequences
If we don't make the time to love
Now's the time to pay attention
Yes, now is the time to
Love
Love
A time to love
Love
A time to love
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Will there be a time to love?
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
I ain't tryna hurt nobody
I just wanna ask somebody
(A time to love) to be love
'Cause I'm peace
So all you prime ministers of the world
All you presidents of the world
All you, all kings and queens (a time to love)
If you can't get it together I'd love to bring peace to the world
(When will there be?)
What time really is it?
(A time to love) a time to love, yeah
When will there be (when will there be)
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love?
When will there be (when will there be)
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love?
A time to care
A time to feel (when will there be)
A time to share? (when will there be)
I said, a time to love?
A time to care?
A time to feel? (when will there be)
And a time to share? (when will there be)
(A time to love) a time to love?
Listen I ain't gotta say no more about it
'Cause when the mothers of the worlds decide
They don't wanna see their children die anymore, haha
Then the wars will stop
That's right, it will stop
And when the wives of the world decide
They don't wanna see their husbands
And husbands and their wives die anymore
Then the wars will stop
That's right, they'll stop
Yeah, when the sisters of the world decide
They don't wanna see their brothers
And brothers their sisters die anymore
Then the wars will stop, haha
They'll stop
'Cause like my friend Kevin Nash said
"It's not about the religion, it's about the relationship"
(A time to love)
And we out, we out, we out
We have time for criticism
Held bondage by our ism's
When will there be a time to love?
We make time to debate religion
Passing bills and building prisons
For building fortunes and passing judgments
When will there be a time to love?
At this point in history
We have a choice to make
To either walk a path of love
Or be crippled by our hate
We have time to cause pollution
We have time to cause confusion
All wrapped up in our own illusions
When will there be a time to love?
We make time to conquer nations
Time for oil excavation
Hatred, violence and terrorism
When will there be a time to love?
At this moment in time
We have a choice to make
Father God is watching
While we cause mother earth so much pain
It's such a shame
Not enough money for
The young, the old and the poor
But for war there's always more
When will there be a time to love?
We make time for paying taxes
Or paying bills and buying status
But we will pay the consequences
If we don't make the time to love
Now's the time to pay attention
Yes, now is the time to
Love
Love
A time to love
Love
A time to love
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Please, won't you tell me
When will there be a time to love?
Will there be a time to love?
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
When will there be?
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love? Yeah
I ain't tryna hurt nobody
I just wanna ask somebody
(A time to love) to be love
'Cause I'm peace
So all you prime ministers of the world
All you presidents of the world
All you, all kings and queens (a time to love)
If you can't get it together I'd love to bring peace to the world
(When will there be?)
What time really is it?
(A time to love) a time to love, yeah
When will there be (when will there be)
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love?
When will there be (when will there be)
When will there be
(A time to love) a time to love?
A time to care
A time to feel (when will there be)
A time to share? (when will there be)
I said, a time to love?
A time to care?
A time to feel? (when will there be)
And a time to share? (when will there be)
(A time to love) a time to love?
Listen I ain't gotta say no more about it
'Cause when the mothers of the worlds decide
They don't wanna see their children die anymore, haha
Then the wars will stop
That's right, it will stop
And when the wives of the world decide
They don't wanna see their husbands
And husbands and their wives die anymore
Then the wars will stop
That's right, they'll stop
Yeah, when the sisters of the world decide
They don't wanna see their brothers
And brothers their sisters die anymore
Then the wars will stop, haha
They'll stop
'Cause like my friend Kevin Nash said
"It's not about the religion, it's about the relationship"
(A time to love)
And we out, we out, we out
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