Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go lyrics

Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go lyrics

[Verse 1]
I fell by the wayside like everyone else
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you but I was just kidding myself
Our every moment, I start to replace
'Cause now that they're gone, all I hear are the words that I needed to say

[Pre-Chorus]
When you hurt under the surface
Like troubled water running cold
Well, time can heal but this won't

[Chorus]
So, before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make your heart beat better?
If only I'd've known you had a storm to weather
So, before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make it all stop hurting?
It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless
So, before you go

[Verse 2]
Was never the right time, whenever you called
Went little by little by little until there was nothing at all
Our every moment, I start to replay
But all I can think about is seeing that look on your face

[Pre-Chorus]
When you hurt under the surface
Like troubled water running cold
Well, time can heal but this won't

[Chorus]
So, before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make your heart beat better?
If only I'd've known you had a storm to weather
So, before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make it all stop hurting?
It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless
So, before you go

[Bridge]
Would we be better off by now
If I'd have let my walls come down?
Maybe; I guess we'll never know
You know, you know

[Chorus]
Before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make your heart beat better?
If only I'd've known you had a storm to weather
So, before you go
Was there something I could've said
To make it all stop hurting?
It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless
So, before you go

Lyrics taken from /lewis_capaldi-before_you_go-1734665.html

Songwriters: Benjamin Alexander Kohn, Lewis Marc Capaldi, Peter Norman Cullen Kelleher, Philip John Plested, Thomas Andrew Searle Barnes

Before You Go lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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Unregistered 2020-10-30 21:26:07

Why is it that the music video on outube is literally just the book "5 feet apart?" Right down to the abandon all hope, ye who enter here sign on wills door. It is in the video! It even shows stella on the roof. It has all the medical equipment. The actors in the video even look like they are described in the book!

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Mylie 2020-03-20 22:22:30

Here is my better meaning:

The lyrics of Lewis Capaldi’s “Before You Go” find him addressing some type of close associate. The nature of their relationship is never specified. However, it has clearly fallen apart, as in the addressee deciding to separate him or herself from the singer. And basically, the sentiment expressed throughout is one in which the vocalist regrets not being more in tune with what this person was going through before he/she made this decision. Sadly, Lewis Capaldi has revealed that the subject matter of this song is in fact suicide. Therefore the sentiments he is relaying are from the perspective of a loved one that a victim of suicide has left behind. And the loss of this individual is proving to be especially painful, as the singer apparently perceives that he had an opportunity to prevent this from occurring but failed to do so.

So the title is based on him questioning this individual in that regard, as in if there was ‘something he could have said’ in the past to make him/her feel better and thus deter this person from taking his own life. But of course if the addressee is indeed passed away, then this question would be theoretically in nature, as in one the singer is asking himself in hindsight.

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Mylie 2020-03-20 18:24:50

"Before You Go": The family tragedy that inspired Lewis Capaldi's new single. ... As Lewis explained, he wrote the song based on something that happened in his own family. "When I was five or six...my aunt committed suicide and I just remember recently speaking to my mom about her feelings," he said.

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