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"
(Spoken:)
Girl you know
We belong together
I have no time for
You to be playing
With my heart like this
You'll be mine forever
Baby, you just see
We belong together
And you that I'm right
Why do you play
With my heart,
Why do you play
With my mind?
Said we'd be forever
Said it'd never die
How could you love me
And leave me
And never say goodbye?
When I can't sleep at night
Without holding you tight
Girl, each time I try
I just break down and cry
Pain in my head oh
I'd rather be dead
Spinnin' around and around
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Girl, I know you
Really love me
You just don't realise
You've never
Been there before
It's only your first time
Maybe I'll forgive you, hm
Maybe you'll try
We should be
Happy together
Forever, you and I
Can you love me again
Like you loved me before
This time I want you
To love me much more
This time instead
Just come to my bed
And baby just
Don't let me
Don't let me down
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
(Spoken:)
Girl I'm here for you
All those times of night
When you just hurt me
And just run out
With that other fella
Baby I knew about it
I just didn't care
You just don't understand
How much I love you do you?
I'm here for you
I'm not out to go out and
Cheat on you all night
Just like you did baby
But that's all right
Hey, I love you anyway
And I'm still gonna
Be here for you
Till my dying day baby
Right now, I'm just in
So much pain baby
Because you just won't
Come back to me
Will you?
Just come back to me
(Lonely)
Yes baby my
Heart is lonely
(Lonely)
My heart hurts baby
(Lonely)
Yes I feel pain too
Baby please
This time instead
Just come to my bed
And baby just
Don't let me go
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Girl you know
We belong together
I have no time for
You to be playing
With my heart like this
You'll be mine forever
Baby, you just see
We belong together
And you that I'm right
Why do you play
With my heart,
Why do you play
With my mind?
Said we'd be forever
Said it'd never die
How could you love me
And leave me
And never say goodbye?
When I can't sleep at night
Without holding you tight
Girl, each time I try
I just break down and cry
Pain in my head oh
I'd rather be dead
Spinnin' around and around
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Girl, I know you
Really love me
You just don't realise
You've never
Been there before
It's only your first time
Maybe I'll forgive you, hm
Maybe you'll try
We should be
Happy together
Forever, you and I
Can you love me again
Like you loved me before
This time I want you
To love me much more
This time instead
Just come to my bed
And baby just
Don't let me
Don't let me down
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
(Spoken:)
Girl I'm here for you
All those times of night
When you just hurt me
And just run out
With that other fella
Baby I knew about it
I just didn't care
You just don't understand
How much I love you do you?
I'm here for you
I'm not out to go out and
Cheat on you all night
Just like you did baby
But that's all right
Hey, I love you anyway
And I'm still gonna
Be here for you
Till my dying day baby
Right now, I'm just in
So much pain baby
Because you just won't
Come back to me
Will you?
Just come back to me
(Lonely)
Yes baby my
Heart is lonely
(Lonely)
My heart hurts baby
(Lonely)
Yes I feel pain too
Baby please
This time instead
Just come to my bed
And baby just
Don't let me go
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Although we've come to
The end of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Come to the
End of the road
Still I can't let you go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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