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"
First see the city sky lights
Shining from my room
You're such a sight to see
In the month of June
Beautiful like the moons
Reflection when it's passing off your skin
And before you let me in I hear you say
"It's been a long time"
I say, "Okay, 'kay, 'kay"
Don't worry I got you
Then you say
"How bout some foreplay?"
Got that, got plenty
I got you
Then you say
"Play some slow whine" (music)
Got that Sade, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye to
(Love you gently) to love you gently
Ooh-oh, let me love you gently, ooh (let me touch you gently)
Lay back relax
Girl I'ma be
Light as a feather
But, hard as a rock
'Cause daddy know just what you like (ooh)
Gonna love you
Gently (gonna love you, baby, gentle with you, babe)
Ooh-oh, light as a feather
But hard as a rock (yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah)
See I know just when to finish
And I know just when to start
And I be lovin' your reaction
Every time I hit that spot
(Gently) but it's soft like leather
(Gently) but the top is hard
(Gently) whisper your pleasures
(Gently) and I'll do my job
Make it rain intense
Girl, let me do what I do
I don't know what's echoing louder
The music or you
(Gently) I ain't close to being done yet
(Gently) but you gettin' real warm
(Gently) like the comin' of thunder
(Gently) right after the storm
Do you say, you say
Do you say girl? (make it repeat, ooh)
Gonna push you to the limit, oh-ooh
It's yours, it's yours
See, second place'll win the race
I'm gonna be your number one
To the sunshine, oh whoa, whoa-oh
Here comes the sun, baby (waiting forever more)
Let's try to taste the moon again
Forever more
Let me touch you gently
Oh-oh, that's the sound of love
Rip them shades off the wall
Light as feather
But hard as rock
Ooh, this might not be in the bedroom
But I'ma gonna love you girl gently (gonna love you gently)
Ooh-ooh, light as a feather (I love you)
But hard as a rock (hard as a rock, hard as a rock, yeah-yeah)
Let me touch you
Gently (ooh-oh, hey)
Wanna love you, wanna love you
Light as a feather
But hard as a rock (I love you)
Gonna love you
Gently (gently, ooh-oh, oh babe, oh baby)
Light as a feather
But hard as a rock
Ooh-ooh oh, can you feel me, girl?
Ayy
Uh no
We don't need no room
All we need is me and you
Ayy
Want to love you
Shining from my room
You're such a sight to see
In the month of June
Beautiful like the moons
Reflection when it's passing off your skin
And before you let me in I hear you say
"It's been a long time"
I say, "Okay, 'kay, 'kay"
Don't worry I got you
Then you say
"How bout some foreplay?"
Got that, got plenty
I got you
Then you say
"Play some slow whine" (music)
Got that Sade, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye to
(Love you gently) to love you gently
Ooh-oh, let me love you gently, ooh (let me touch you gently)
Lay back relax
Girl I'ma be
Light as a feather
But, hard as a rock
'Cause daddy know just what you like (ooh)
Gonna love you
Gently (gonna love you, baby, gentle with you, babe)
Ooh-oh, light as a feather
But hard as a rock (yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah)
See I know just when to finish
And I know just when to start
And I be lovin' your reaction
Every time I hit that spot
(Gently) but it's soft like leather
(Gently) but the top is hard
(Gently) whisper your pleasures
(Gently) and I'll do my job
Make it rain intense
Girl, let me do what I do
I don't know what's echoing louder
The music or you
(Gently) I ain't close to being done yet
(Gently) but you gettin' real warm
(Gently) like the comin' of thunder
(Gently) right after the storm
Do you say, you say
Do you say girl? (make it repeat, ooh)
Gonna push you to the limit, oh-ooh
It's yours, it's yours
See, second place'll win the race
I'm gonna be your number one
To the sunshine, oh whoa, whoa-oh
Here comes the sun, baby (waiting forever more)
Let's try to taste the moon again
Forever more
Let me touch you gently
Oh-oh, that's the sound of love
Rip them shades off the wall
Light as feather
But hard as rock
Ooh, this might not be in the bedroom
But I'ma gonna love you girl gently (gonna love you gently)
Ooh-ooh, light as a feather (I love you)
But hard as a rock (hard as a rock, hard as a rock, yeah-yeah)
Let me touch you
Gently (ooh-oh, hey)
Wanna love you, wanna love you
Light as a feather
But hard as a rock (I love you)
Gonna love you
Gently (gently, ooh-oh, oh babe, oh baby)
Light as a feather
But hard as a rock
Ooh-ooh oh, can you feel me, girl?
Ayy
Uh no
We don't need no room
All we need is me and you
Ayy
Want to love you
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Love You Gently Lyrics as written by Raheem De Vaughn Andre Harris
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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