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've been watching you and all you do
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
I've been watching you and all you do
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
The light
So let me in
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
I'll fall
Through no light the darkness seems to be
So very strong
How does one alone against the world
Find the strength to carry on?
What happened to the way we used to love
It seemed as though life had just begun
But now that love has come and gone to fade away
Like the setting sun
Cause you won't let me in.
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
Cause I'm starting to fall
So let me in
It was all that I wanted from you
It was something you never knew
To let me in
But not tonight
For this is the end
Tonight
I fall
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
I've been watching you and all you do
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
The light
So let me in
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
I'll fall
Through no light the darkness seems to be
So very strong
How does one alone against the world
Find the strength to carry on?
What happened to the way we used to love
It seemed as though life had just begun
But now that love has come and gone to fade away
Like the setting sun
Cause you won't let me in.
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
Cause I'm starting to fall
So let me in
It was all that I wanted from you
It was something you never knew
To let me in
But not tonight
For this is the end
Tonight
I fall
Lyrics submitted by i_like_to_wear_ties
Let Me In Lyrics as written by Monique Powell Brian Mashburn
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I feel so bad for all of you. Monique just sounds so incredibly hurt when she sings it.
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This song I can relate to, i sometimes feel like I can't get out and i need to escape.
this song is about loving someone for who they are...and them just never realizing or understnading. that is so.incredibly.hard.to.deal.with.
this song could be written about me. :) i am in love with this guy who i know, in a way, loves me too. but he can't find a way to leave and get over his ex-girlfriend (which happens to be a heinnus witch) because he is just so used to her. but the precious moments we did spend together (the tonight Mo sings) i know meant as much to him as they did to me. so i'll just have to wait til he lets me in.
Hee hee. I'm one of these people. I love it ^-^
I feel this song is about loving someone who sees you as just a friend and has no idea about your true feelings. And no matter how good of a friend they are it would never be enough to make you truly happy.
"It was all that I wanted from you It was something you never knew"
This song is really special for me. I have a girl friend that I really liked, she had no idea for the longest time. Then one night i told her and she just wanted to be my friend. All i wanted from her was to let me in. She said she was still hung up about an old boyfriend. I was really sad after that but ill just have to wait until she lets me in.
could be for me...i just cant over my ex boyfriend and this is the barrier that i have to get over for someone else to get in me..and tt someone else had been very patient and nice and eveything...he doesnt know tt i knew hes in love with me..but u can always sense this kinda stuff..but this song could also means that a relationship is goin downhill and he has shut the door and wouldnt let her in"what happened to the way we used to love",..
This song makes me cry, even if I have a wonderful relationship..
Love doesn't last, even if it seems so perfect.