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"
The starship is falling
No communication, no one's calling
Only if I'd known this knowledge
I'd spread my wings and fly right by you
She get to lookin' like she been waiting for me
Contemplating, a thousand days of war
She waitin' for me to pay for it
Can't do it no more, love not war
I've been tourin' back and forth
If you hear a heartbeat, it's yours
No, it ain't mine, I don't feel alive
So beam me up and let me meet my maker
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up
Can you tell me 'bout love?
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out?
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me)
Oh, please
If I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me?
Oh, God,
Software is crashing, oh no
I can't take too much more of this
S.o.s. And no one's coming
I'm hoping God can solve my problems (help me)
She still won't even look at me, she just keep on walking (why?)
She get to lookin' like she been waiting for me (waiting for me)
Contemplating, a thousand days of war (no-no, no)
She waitin' for me to pay for it
Can't do it no more, love not war (not war)
I've been tourin' back and forth
If you hear a heartbeat, it's yours (ow!)
No, it ain't mine, I don't feel alive (ow!)
So beam me up and let me meet my maker (me)
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up
Can you tell me 'bout love?
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out? (Ooh-ooh)
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me, oh please)
Oh, please, if I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me? Oh, God
Enough for Heaven (dear God) to hear me?
Huh, if you grant me this wish
One wish, this wish, Lord, I promise
I'll never ask for anything else
'Cause I can't do it by myself
It's too hard
I can't play God, huh, that's your job
I'm just a simple man who needs his heart repaired
In purgatory, but not if she's there
I know I'm askin' for a lot but
Tryna break these chains I'm locked from
I'll no longer be scared
If you're really up there
So beam me up and let me meet my maker
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up (I need you, oh)
Can you tell me 'bout love? (Now, now, now, now, now)
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (ooh, nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out? (Ooh-ooh)
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me, hear me)
Oh, please
If I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me? Oh, God
Enough for Heaven (Dear God) to hear me?
No communication, no one's calling
Only if I'd known this knowledge
I'd spread my wings and fly right by you
She get to lookin' like she been waiting for me
Contemplating, a thousand days of war
She waitin' for me to pay for it
Can't do it no more, love not war
I've been tourin' back and forth
If you hear a heartbeat, it's yours
No, it ain't mine, I don't feel alive
So beam me up and let me meet my maker
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up
Can you tell me 'bout love?
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out?
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me)
Oh, please
If I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me?
Oh, God,
Software is crashing, oh no
I can't take too much more of this
S.o.s. And no one's coming
I'm hoping God can solve my problems (help me)
She still won't even look at me, she just keep on walking (why?)
She get to lookin' like she been waiting for me (waiting for me)
Contemplating, a thousand days of war (no-no, no)
She waitin' for me to pay for it
Can't do it no more, love not war (not war)
I've been tourin' back and forth
If you hear a heartbeat, it's yours (ow!)
No, it ain't mine, I don't feel alive (ow!)
So beam me up and let me meet my maker (me)
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up
Can you tell me 'bout love?
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out? (Ooh-ooh)
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me, oh please)
Oh, please, if I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me? Oh, God
Enough for Heaven (dear God) to hear me?
Huh, if you grant me this wish
One wish, this wish, Lord, I promise
I'll never ask for anything else
'Cause I can't do it by myself
It's too hard
I can't play God, huh, that's your job
I'm just a simple man who needs his heart repaired
In purgatory, but not if she's there
I know I'm askin' for a lot but
Tryna break these chains I'm locked from
I'll no longer be scared
If you're really up there
So beam me up and let me meet my maker
So many questions I need answers to, the wake up (I need you, oh)
Can you tell me 'bout love? (Now, now, now, now, now)
Sit me down (oh, God)
All these other people don't have a clue (ooh, nah, they don't know about it)
Can you help me out, me out? (Ooh-ooh)
God, would you please take a second and hear me out? (Hear me, hear me)
Oh, please
If I scream and shout, is it loud enough? (Hey!)
Enough for Heaven to hear me? Oh, God
Enough for Heaven (Dear God) to hear me?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Dear God Lyrics as written by Patrizio Pigliapoco Christopher Maurice Brown
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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