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"
If you go away
On this summers day
Then you might as well
Take the sun away
All the birds that flew
In the summers sky
When our love was new
And our hearts were high
And the days were long
And the nights were young
And the moon stood still
For the night birds song
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
But if you stay
I'll make you a day
Like no day has been
Or will be again
We'll sail on the sun
We'll ride on the rain
And talk to the trees
And worship the wind
But if you go
I'll understand
Give me just enough love to fill up my hands
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
As I know you will
You must tell the world
To start turning
Till you return again
If you ever do
What good is love
Without loving you
Can I tell you now
As you turn to gold
I'll be dying slowly
Till the next hello
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
But if you stay
I'll make you a night
Like no night has been
Or will be again
I'll sail on your smile
I'll ride on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes
That I love so much
But if you go
I won't cry
For the good is gone
From the word goodbye
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
As I know you must
There'd be nothing left
In this world to trust
Just an empty room
Full of empty space
Like the empty look
I see on your face
But I've been in the shadow
Of your shadow
If you might of kept me
By your side
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
On this summers day
Then you might as well
Take the sun away
All the birds that flew
In the summers sky
When our love was new
And our hearts were high
And the days were long
And the nights were young
And the moon stood still
For the night birds song
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
But if you stay
I'll make you a day
Like no day has been
Or will be again
We'll sail on the sun
We'll ride on the rain
And talk to the trees
And worship the wind
But if you go
I'll understand
Give me just enough love to fill up my hands
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
As I know you will
You must tell the world
To start turning
Till you return again
If you ever do
What good is love
Without loving you
Can I tell you now
As you turn to gold
I'll be dying slowly
Till the next hello
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
But if you stay
I'll make you a night
Like no night has been
Or will be again
I'll sail on your smile
I'll ride on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes
That I love so much
But if you go
I won't cry
For the good is gone
From the word goodbye
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
As I know you must
There'd be nothing left
In this world to trust
Just an empty room
Full of empty space
Like the empty look
I see on your face
But I've been in the shadow
Of your shadow
If you might of kept me
By your side
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
Lyrics submitted by TokyoNiGHTS
If You Go Away Lyrics as written by Rod Mckuen Jacques Romain Brel
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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