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"
If tomorrow never comes
I wont give a damn
If tomorrow never comes
I will not be afraid to meet my maker
Just the way that I am
You cant prove anything
But one thing is true
If you can steal from me
I can steal from you
Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in
Wont seem like a heaven to me
They tell you that the garden of Eden was perfect
But you couldn't even eat off the apple tree
And for heavens sakes look out for that snake
Lying to your woman constantly
Adam must have scratched his head
Looked up and said
Lord this just isn't doing it for me
If tomorrow never comes
I wont give a damn
If tomorrow never comes
I dont want to be afraid
To come and meet you just the way that I am
I cant do anything im dying too
If tomorrow never comes
Tonight will have to do
I say I don't ever claim to know whats going on around here
I don't even know where i'm from
I know where i'm going when I get to where i'm going
What i'm doing when I get done
You tell me i'm forgiven if I need to be
I say permission ought to come that easily
I'm piling cores up underneath this apple tree
Singing oh lord have mercy on me
If tomorrow never comes
And tonight is all I got
If tomorrow never comes
I don't want to be afraid
To come and meet you just the way that i'm not
Cant do anything
And then you die
Judge the judgmental and what am I?
Either way i'm every guy I ever tried not to be
I want everything as good as it gets
I've learned nothing but that there is another sun rise coming
All but one of the times it sets
And if tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
If tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
If we were all good people
We could work in perfect rhythm
If worms had daggers
Birds wouldn't fuck with them
I wont give a damn
If tomorrow never comes
I will not be afraid to meet my maker
Just the way that I am
You cant prove anything
But one thing is true
If you can steal from me
I can steal from you
Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in
Wont seem like a heaven to me
They tell you that the garden of Eden was perfect
But you couldn't even eat off the apple tree
And for heavens sakes look out for that snake
Lying to your woman constantly
Adam must have scratched his head
Looked up and said
Lord this just isn't doing it for me
If tomorrow never comes
I wont give a damn
If tomorrow never comes
I dont want to be afraid
To come and meet you just the way that I am
I cant do anything im dying too
If tomorrow never comes
Tonight will have to do
I say I don't ever claim to know whats going on around here
I don't even know where i'm from
I know where i'm going when I get to where i'm going
What i'm doing when I get done
You tell me i'm forgiven if I need to be
I say permission ought to come that easily
I'm piling cores up underneath this apple tree
Singing oh lord have mercy on me
If tomorrow never comes
And tonight is all I got
If tomorrow never comes
I don't want to be afraid
To come and meet you just the way that i'm not
Cant do anything
And then you die
Judge the judgmental and what am I?
Either way i'm every guy I ever tried not to be
I want everything as good as it gets
I've learned nothing but that there is another sun rise coming
All but one of the times it sets
And if tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
If tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
If we were all good people
We could work in perfect rhythm
If worms had daggers
Birds wouldn't fuck with them
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If Tomorrow Never Comes Lyrics as written by Todd Daniel Snider
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