Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer. He is currently signed to Def Jam Recordings. Deserve You is the second track off his 6th studio album titled “Justice.”

What is the song “Deserve You” by Justin Bieber all about?

Deserve means someone worth to receive, have or earn something or someone.

“Deserve You” by Justin Bieber is a love song. In the song, Justin is deeply in love with his significant other who equally loves him too. However, based on his past, Justin feels he is undeserving of her love. Although Justin did not give any glimpse of what his past looked like; it’s probably something he can’t brag about.

Meaning of some words

“I’m in my thoughts” means to think about something. 

“Don’t want to go back to who I was,” means not to return to some previous habits or characters either positive or negative.

“Don’t deserve you,” means accepting that someone you are with should belong to someone better usually based on wealth, age, or past life.

I am wondering though why Justin sang in verse 2 that he doesn’t want to beat his past. View below:

“I don’t want to beat my past”

This is because to beat someone’s past means to be better in the future than he was in the past. So why did he say he doesn’t want to beat or defeat his past?

Lyrics to Deserve You by Justin Bieber.

Verse 1

When I’m in my thoughts sometimes

It’s hard to believe

I’m the person you think I am

The person that you tell me you love

I’m on my ten thousandth life

Nine thousand, nine hundred, ninety-nine and it slipped my hands

But this is the one I’m not giving up

Pre-chorus

Night after night you fall asleep on me

I’m praying that I don’t go back to who I was

Chorus

I feel like

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the way that you hold me

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the things that you show me

I need you, don’t let me go

Need you, don’t let me go 

I feel like

I don’t de-, I don’t de- 

I don’t deserve you tonight

Verse 2

I can tend to hold things back

I need you more than I let you believe I do

‘Cause you could think it might be too much, oh yeah

I don’t want to beat my past

Oh when we kiss I’m alive and I feel brand new

There’s nothing that I want more than us

Pre-chorus

Night after night you fall asleep on me

I’m praying that I don’t go back to who I was

Chorus

I feel like

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the way that you hold me

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the things that you show me

I need you, don’t let me go

Need you, don’t let me go 

I feel like

I don’t de-, I don’t de- 

I don’t deserve you tonight

Bridge

Somewhere in the sky

The way your body fits on mine

When you give in to me

I’m so high but I’m falling

Now my eyes are locked on you

As you dance around the room

And finally, I’m right where I belong

Chorus/Outro

I feel like

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the way that you hold me

I don’t deserve you tonight

It’s in the things that you show me

I need you, don’t let me go

Need you, don’t let me go 

I feel like

I don’t de-, I don’t de- 

I don’t deserve you tonight