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• Judah Fan from EarthI think that all the other comments are good at explaining the song but I think it's about more than a lover and that stuff, I'm pretty sure it's about God. In life there are a lot of things in life we live for like money or woman or other pleasurely things but if you have lived for long enough and im not that old you kinda look at all you have and you don't feel truly satisfied with it all, like there's something missing. When the song says "and one day we might have a big house with nice cars and fancy clothes and a wife with a big ol Dimond ring" that's him saying the things that most of us guys want in life (im not sure about woman) but then he goes on to say that he'd take it all back just to have "you" I think that you is God just cause of the fact that the song is very directed in that way and it makes sense because personly i would take it all back just to have God (you). This life is more than what's put in front of use to have pleasure with it's about waking up and seeing that we were made for God's pleasure and worship. The more you realize that the more you would take all that time you spent getting more money and nicer cars and clothes and looking for women and don't get me wrong these are really nice things but that time you could have spent building your relationship with the lord. I would take it all back just to have you.
• Atxjessie from Austin TxPlainjane247 I'm with ya 100%. Although I'm a girl :) This song is so much more to me than what the google meaning says. For me, it's losing those I've loved....missing them, and the regret I have for hurting them when they where alive. Because I would "take it all back." Pearl Jam, Just Breathe is another good one.
• Plainjane247 from Needles CaEvery time I hear this song it seems like a really long song I must say. And my life stops for but just blink and begins to slow motion rewind I look around and I see beautiful moments undone slowly everything plays out backwards unfolded lost in the creases of time , ashamed of the thought id let this life go, to get back what I lost,something that feels like a lifetime ago.
  The song always ends before I reach the beginning but i feel it to my very core and it saddens me so........another life time or not.....wherever you are. My love will find you!
• Anonymous from EarthTo me this song is about the one that got away. That one woman that loved you so much that it changed your life. When she looked at you there was a look in her eyes that was so sincere and genuine. She was beautiful in every way, not because of her appearance but rather the way she expressed her love to you like it was the surest thing she knew.
  But you couldn’t handle the commitment, you didn’t plan on feeling this way and you weren’t ready to settle down. Her love snuck up on you and captivated you in a way that scared you to death. She was just too good to be true and you didn’t want to ruin it. You needed more time, more practice, you wanted to sleep with more women, she wasn’t going to hold you back. You weren’t going to give up your lifestyle or your freedom for her. Too many women had hurt you in the past and you told yourself you didn’t need her and she didn’t matter. If she loved you she must be defective.
  You broke the news to her, you made her believe you didn’t care, you’d hope she’d just find someone else and get over it. You’d be off the hook, the pressure gone. You hook up with other women, hot women, you have amazing sex and you have your freedom. By all accounts you should be happy but the years go by and none of them are her, no one compares. Their love is always conditional whereas hers was unconditional. You forget what her voice sounds like, you wonder if she was ever even real. You’d take it all back just to tell her that you loved her too. She did everything in her power to build you up and you shut her down and broke her heart because she made you feel something you didn’t want to feel.
  One day you have it all, the career you want, the big house, the nice car the gorgeous wife with the big diamond ring, it’s what you thought you wanted. People will envy you, appearance wise you’ve checked all the boxes for a successful man. But as you grow older and you discover that those things don’t matter and you realize you’d give it all back to have been able to love her as freely as she loved you. Because she loved you when you had nothing only expecting your love and time in return and she would have loved you regardless of your successes but now you fall asleep next to a woman who will never be her. One who showed up to the game when you had it all together, when your days of sleeping around were over and when you had the nice car, house and high paying job. You wonder if she’d even give you the time of day back when you had nothing to your name but a small savings account an old car and a run-down apartment. There’s always an empty space, you’re going through the motions. You thought you were getting off easy when you wished her away not knowing that the worst pain you’d ever endure was the regret of letting the one woman who truly loved you slip away.
  My life looks great on paper but I can’t help but imagine how fulfilled and happy I’d feel if she married me instead of her current husband. I torment myself and looked at her photos of her with him and her 2 kids and she looks so happy even with the very little that they have. That guy’s a lucky SOB, I’m happy for her but it kills me.
• Josh from Johnson City, Tn. This song is about sarcasm. It has nothing to do with actually being together with the other person. But maybe it's because (the 2nd time around) my ex played this song for me while telling me that she would "take it all back" if she could just be with me again because I was "her soulmate" a year later...she cheats on me again. This song is about the bulls--t of love and how it ruins all your hopes and dreams and ultimately your life. "I'm waking up" to reality.

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