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"
Say
Can't I hear you say
Somethin'?
Deep inside, fall on the wall
That's where I find protection from the rain
Since you've been gone, my only friend is yesterday, ooh boy
Telephone won't make a sound
Waitin' here for you to change your mind
You never called, I'm lost in the tears I hide behind, oh yeah, mm-hmm
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me, oh
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
Late at night I toss and turn
Burnin' memories lingerin' on
I'd give the world just to prove my love for you is strong
All you left is confusion and doubt
Unanswered questions, just where did I fail?
I'm hurt and helpless inside a cold and empty shell, ooh boy
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
Yeah, that's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
You're my sweet reason for livin'
In your arms I found my home
Love's waitin' here for givin'
Like a stone, oh
Like a stone
Oh, telephone won't make a sound
Waitin' here for you to change your mind
But you never called and I'm lost in the tears I hide, yeah, behind
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me, yeah
Yeah, that's where I'll be
Until you say you love me, yeah
That's where I'll be
Till you say you say, say, say, say you love me (till you say you love me)
(Till you say you love me) I got to
(Till you say you love me) come on, now
(Till you say you love me) to me, one time
(Till you say you love me) I got to hear you say it, say, say it to me
(Till you say you love me) one time, yeah
(Till you say you love me)
Can't I hear you say
Somethin'?
Deep inside, fall on the wall
That's where I find protection from the rain
Since you've been gone, my only friend is yesterday, ooh boy
Telephone won't make a sound
Waitin' here for you to change your mind
You never called, I'm lost in the tears I hide behind, oh yeah, mm-hmm
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me, oh
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
Late at night I toss and turn
Burnin' memories lingerin' on
I'd give the world just to prove my love for you is strong
All you left is confusion and doubt
Unanswered questions, just where did I fail?
I'm hurt and helpless inside a cold and empty shell, ooh boy
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
Yeah, that's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
You're my sweet reason for livin'
In your arms I found my home
Love's waitin' here for givin'
Like a stone, oh
Like a stone
Oh, telephone won't make a sound
Waitin' here for you to change your mind
But you never called and I'm lost in the tears I hide, yeah, behind
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me
That's where I'll be
Till you say you love me, yeah
Yeah, that's where I'll be
Until you say you love me, yeah
That's where I'll be
Till you say you say, say, say, say you love me (till you say you love me)
(Till you say you love me) I got to
(Till you say you love me) come on, now
(Till you say you love me) to me, one time
(Till you say you love me) I got to hear you say it, say, say it to me
(Till you say you love me) one time, yeah
(Till you say you love me)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Until You Say You Love Me Lyrics as written by Preston W. Glass Narada Michael Walden
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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