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"
Wait for Me
I need to get up out of here.
[Chorus]
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (I said I'm on my way, ready to stay; did I make it crystal clear?)
Since you came into my life.
Strong, sweet, and positive.
Things are so right.
So far away, I'm counting down the days.
Baby I anticipate loving you a billion ways.
[Chorus]
Baby can you feel it?
That this thing that we've got is real
Though we're miles apart, you've still got my heart
I'm about to leave today and be on my way
Baby just be still.
Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!
A thousand kisses for you
Is never too much (Never too much, never too much, never too much)
Greyhound, or Amtrax
Whatever it takes I'm coming back
Mercedes Benz, or airplane
Through the clouds and the rain
Days, hours, minutes, seconds
I can't wait another day.
With all this distance it's tearing me away, yeah!
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!
I said I'm already packed, ready to go, got to get out of here.
I said I'm ready to go, already packed, got to get out of here.
I need to get up out of here.
[Chorus]
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (I said I'm on my way, ready to stay; did I make it crystal clear?)
Since you came into my life.
Strong, sweet, and positive.
Things are so right.
So far away, I'm counting down the days.
Baby I anticipate loving you a billion ways.
[Chorus]
Baby can you feel it?
That this thing that we've got is real
Though we're miles apart, you've still got my heart
I'm about to leave today and be on my way
Baby just be still.
Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!
A thousand kisses for you
Is never too much (Never too much, never too much, never too much)
Greyhound, or Amtrax
Whatever it takes I'm coming back
Mercedes Benz, or airplane
Through the clouds and the rain
Days, hours, minutes, seconds
I can't wait another day.
With all this distance it's tearing me away, yeah!
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!
I said I'm already packed, ready to go, got to get out of here.
I said I'm ready to go, already packed, got to get out of here.
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Wait for Me Lyrics as written by G. Chambers Angela Laverne Stone
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