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"
I know just how much I love you
But there is no time to explain
I realize just what I'd give to
Get you back in my arms
And I see you hand in hand with another man
And I don't know what you see in him and why you let us go
So if you're gonna lie
At least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just say goodbye
And I'm caught between myself and me
And I can't find the bridge
From my mind to reality
I'm trying to find a place in the sun
But I'm drowning in the rain
That's falling every place I run
And I see you hand in hand with another man
And I don't know what you see in him and why you let us go
So if you're gonna lie
At least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just say goodbye
Well I'm not gonna sit around just waiting for you to get overhim
So oh, no, no, no
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye now
Well if you're gonna lie
Well at least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just said goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Oh yeah
Won't you say goodbye
Won't you say goodbye now
Won't you say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye now
Won't you kiss me goodbye
You've gotta tell me goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
But there is no time to explain
I realize just what I'd give to
Get you back in my arms
And I see you hand in hand with another man
And I don't know what you see in him and why you let us go
So if you're gonna lie
At least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just say goodbye
And I'm caught between myself and me
And I can't find the bridge
From my mind to reality
I'm trying to find a place in the sun
But I'm drowning in the rain
That's falling every place I run
And I see you hand in hand with another man
And I don't know what you see in him and why you let us go
So if you're gonna lie
At least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just say goodbye
Well I'm not gonna sit around just waiting for you to get overhim
So oh, no, no, no
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye now
Well if you're gonna lie
Well at least you could just let us die
And if you're gonna cry to me baby
At least you could just said goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Oh yeah
Won't you say goodbye
Won't you say goodbye now
Won't you say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye now
Won't you kiss me goodbye
You've gotta tell me goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Say goodbye
Say goodbye now
Lyrics submitted by sunnybunnygirl
Hand in Hand Lyrics as written by Taylor Hanson Isaac Hanson
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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This is one of my many favorite Hanson songs (obviously, because it's where I got my username) I just love it because it's so powerful
they left each other, he wants her back, he's jealous he sees her with another guy, he's lost confused etc. It's a great song, though.
This song has so much raw emotion. Isaac makes this such an angry, powerful song without screaming with rage. Bravo IkE!! 8-)
my least favorite song on tta.. which means it rocks.
Isaac explained on the DVD that this is a reference to a girl friend who cheated on him and then says "Oh, no, no. I got 'er back." I don't particularly care for this song, really. But that's alright because I like almost every other.
Yeah, that bothered me.. Why would Isaac WANT the girl back? She was hand in hand with another man!
Maybe he really really loved her and he was willing to forgive her if she would come back.
Lol rosypandas and jamjeanne92. He meant 'got her back' as in revenge...as in the song is his way of snitching her out to the world and having the winning word.
curious to know if this song has anything to do with Kate...?