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"
Oh, oh my love
Oh, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me, wait for me
I'll be coming home
Wait for me
Oh, oh my love
Oh, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me (it to me)
God speed your love to me
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
Oh, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me, wait for me
I'll be coming home
Wait for me
Oh, oh my love
Oh, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me (it to me)
God speed your love to me
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
(I need your love)
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira
Unchained Melody Lyrics as written by Hyman Zaret Alex North
Lyrics © UNCHAINED MELODY PUB LLC
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this guy isnt that creative at coming up with lryics...none the less. this song is still pretty :) i like the instrumental also.
It's a cover. I believe hte original was by the "righteous brothers" (although that may be another cover version...).
this is a righteous brothers cover
Actually (and I quote):
"Unchained Melody" was written by Hy Zaret and Alex North for the 1955 movie "Unchained"
That's the reason for the title. It's one of the most covered songs of all time.
it was originally instrumental...they used it in the movie...that instrumental version was a #1 hit in 1955, at the same time, these lyrics were written for pop reasons and a version with lyrics went to #2...a third version also charted...ALL AT THE SAME TIME...
...the righteous brothers covered this and used it as a B-side to someone elses single, it wasn't supposed to be a hit but DJs always flipped the record to the other side and theirs has become the most famous version, b/c those two dudes could sing...
i believe the three most covered songs of all time are this, "yesterday", and another righteous brothers song "you've lost that loving feeling"...can't say i'm sure...
it doesnt matter who sings this song, its a timeless great!
This is probably the best version of the song. Just listen to the way Bono screams out "I need your love". I mean it really catches the listener.
I agree that this is the best cover of the song.. Although I thought it was Presley's. It's perfest, Slow bot so powerful, sweet but so sad, simple but so full.. U2 get it to it's higher level. 'N Bono just gives the word's "perform" true meaning.
The Righetous brother's version of this song is conventionally more of a romantic song. However, in my opinion, when you hear the emotion and passion running from Bono's vocals, it is hard not to be moved. Other's will argue,but when you love somebody can you really illustrate that by singing a soft harmonious whisper?
Brilliant version! The best. Originally released by Todd Duncan in 1955. Music and lyrics by Alex North & Hy Zaret. Other 5 artists released the song in 1955. The Righteous Brothers were the 8th known coverer in 1965, Elvis is the 13th in 1977, while U2 were the 17th in 1989. I think their version is the best. There are 23 known coverers of the song. The last one was Cyndi Lauper in 2003.