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If All I Had Was You
Maybe, it’s cause you play so hard to get
Or maybe, it’s cause we like being a mess
Maybe, I’m making laughs too serious
But baby, I’ve loved you since the day we met
Maybe, it’s cause your smile melts my eyes
Or maybe, I just want things that gold can’t buy
Maybe, I’d be the richest man alive
If all I had was you
But I guess it wasn’t meant to be!
Or fate stole the best day of my life!
I still wake up and hear the screams!
And the torches still burn in my eyes!
Haunted, by the chains on my conscience
I spend my time living hanging around coffins
Deep down in the dark, where no lights can find me
They’ll only be blinding, they’ll only remind me
I’m falling, from the grace took for granted
I’m exiled here with my home disenchanted
The demons parade, through the streets that were golden
The worst of the pain, leaving both our hearts broken
If all I had was you, am I just nothing now?!!
If just our love was true, have I lied to myself?!!
Look at me!! I’ve grown weak!!
And your face!! Is a maskless disguise!!
Funny how the dark shows sides of us kept hidden by the light!!
If all I had was you, am I just nothing now?!!
With loneliness dragging me down!!
The fire is rising, the spark ignited
Me back on this path, back to light and
My past’s a lesson learned, I won’t lose my way
Cause when the torch doesn’t burn, it illuminates
You’re full of surprises, it makes me excited
To see you again, both relieved and frightened
That our history was blurred, and we’re not the same
How ironic to return, and then slip away
If all I had was you, am I just nothing now?!!
If just our love was true, have I lied to myself?!!
Look at me!! I’ve grown weak!!
And your face!! Is a maskless disguise!!
Funny how the dark shows sides of us kept hidden by the light!!
If all I had was you, am I just nothing now?!!
With loneliness dragging me down!!
Maybe, it’s how you filled my emptiness
Or maybe, it’s all the clever things you did
Maybe, it’s your innate resilience
That pulls me back to you
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This song is basically an emotional rollercoaster. In the beginning, the narrator has fallen in love, but that is soon interrupted by a cruel twist of fate. This is presumably some personal tragedy with the trauma akin to that of experiencing a mob or some other type of violence. The event causes him to leave and he falls into a slump in the absence of his lover. However, with time he slowly rises out of the slump. It may seem as if he is going to make a comeback but another twist leaves him wondering whether or not he and his girlfriend are still in love. When she ultimately leaves, he returns to the slump. The outro where he appears to still love her represents how his appreciation of her has changed from the beginning. In the beginning he seems to value her smiles and laughs but at the end he sees that she has other qualities such as cleverness, resilience, etc that are usually not valued enough by society. He is still hopeful that in time things might work out.