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"
You are everything I wanted
The scars of all I'll ever know
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
You saw all my pieces broken
This darkness that I could never show
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
And ride
And ride
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
The scars of all I'll ever know
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
You saw all my pieces broken
This darkness that I could never show
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
And ride
And ride
If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?
And ride
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I am not sure what everyone else has said...but maybe it is about taking a chance on love, the love is someone who he may have known for a long time and may be in another relationship even. But he is kind of saying "you are everything to me and can you take this chance and try it out"....
This song stuck the very first time I heard it playing in The Lying Game. I kept playing back the episode, wishing I could mute the actors so I could hear it better!:-D Anyway, now I blissfully have it as my ring tone so...am good.
It's the kind that stays with you. Keeps going through your mind. And yeah, I agree with the person who says that it's about someone asking his/her love to go away with him. May not even be a literal running away, but an invitation to take the journey of love and life together.
He is asking that if he loved her, if she would love him back. That's why he says 'If I told you, you were right, would you take my hand tonight?' I really like the beat of this song.
note to self=when a guy tells you he likes you. NEVER EVER EVER tell him that you dont like him. because you may not like him now, but when he's gone it is soo painful to let go. past experience.
I JUST LOVE THIS SONG.this guy really knows what love is like, and im someone who knows nothing about love. well other than my love for HEATH LEDGER,and of course cary brothers.
I wrote that.^^ and i just changed my username.
but it's all true.
I have recently fell in love...that this song just really touches me when i hear it. it has such a beautiful sound and words to it that it gives me goosebumps. =] i found cary brothers by chance, and i'm happy that i did.
I love this song. The beat and everything. I'm glad it's on The Last Kiss Soundtrack or I don't know if I would have found it otherwise..
This song is so beautiful. I'm in love.
It's definitely a beautiful song. Like blurrymonkey said, the sound of it is great; it draws me in. It just makes me think of finally finding "the one."
I got the soundtrack to The Last Kiss and heard it on there, but it sounded so familiar to me. I'm a scrubs fanatic, and I realized it was used on the show once, and even figured out which episode it was in (I have a lot of free time to think and figure stuff out at my job). Season 5, Episode 10 - Her Story II. It plays with the conclusion of the episode.
How is this song not hugely popular. I love it to death -- i've had it on repeat a little too much =\ To me I think it's about a guy who is ready to completely put himself out there for a girl, but only if the girl shows that she is ready to do so as well. Although, she has already seen a bad part of him so she might be hesitant to start a relationship. Still, an incredibly beautiful yet simple song.