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"
Saying goodbye
Is never an easy thing
But you never said
That you'd stay forever
So if you must go
Oh, darling I set you free
But I know in time
That we'll be together
I won't try
To stop you now from leaving
'Cause in my heart I know
Love will lead you back
Someday I just know that
Love will lead you back to my arms
Where you belong
I'm sure, sure as stars are shining
One day you will find me again, it won't be long
One of these days our love will lead you back
One of these nights
Ooh, I'll hear your voice again
You're gonna say
Ooh, how much you missed me
You'll walk out this door
But someday you'll walk back in
And darling I know, ooh
I know this will be
Sometimes it takes
Sometime you on your own now
To find your way back home
Is never an easy thing
But you never said
That you'd stay forever
So if you must go
Oh, darling I set you free
But I know in time
That we'll be together
I won't try
To stop you now from leaving
'Cause in my heart I know
Love will lead you back
Someday I just know that
Love will lead you back to my arms
Where you belong
I'm sure, sure as stars are shining
One day you will find me again, it won't be long
One of these days our love will lead you back
One of these nights
Ooh, I'll hear your voice again
You're gonna say
Ooh, how much you missed me
You'll walk out this door
But someday you'll walk back in
And darling I know, ooh
I know this will be
Sometimes it takes
Sometime you on your own now
To find your way back home
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I've always loved this song. I hadn't heard it in a while and a few months ago after I broke up with the boy would could have been "the one", it came on my mp3 player. It gave me hope. I'm hoping 'the time out on his own will help him find his way home' and our love will him back to me. /pathetic girl.
My boyfriend is going away to college this summer....I always thought that we would end up together in the end even though i am only 18 i never knew i would feel love like this and it can only get better as we get older.....when he goes away we agreed not to stay together but to find each other after college is over.....and so in august he leave hopefully love will lead him back to me someday, and he would be my one and only true love.....i wont stop him from leaving b\c i know in my heart love will lead him back to me!
sweet
i meet my first love. we met when we're high school. after 11 years, we met again. he's waiting over 10 years to fix his mistake. he tried get 2nd opportunity. i give him... but... he blow up.. again.! he make the same mistake like he did before. i do love him... but he afraid to make commitment, because next month, June, i'll leave to sydney,.. continue my study.. i believe... that the love will lead us back
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i heard this song on the radio one time and i fell in love with right away with the song i also love taylor dayne's voice
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Hey! Diane Warren wrote this ballad.Yeah a duh moment for me. :)