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"
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey, hey mickey (repeat x3)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey
hey mickey
you've been around all night
and that's a little long
you think you got the right
but i think you got it wrong
oh can't you say goodnight
so you can take me home mickey?
'cause when you say you will
it always means you won't
you're givin me the chills baby, please baby don't
every night you still leave me all alone mickey
(chorus)
oh mickey what a pity you don't understand
you take me by the heart
when you take me by the hand
oh mickey you're so pretty can't you understand
it's guys like you mickey
and what you do mickey, do mickey
don't break my heart mickey
hey mickey
now if you take me by the who's ever gonna know
everytime you move i let a little more show
there's something you can use
so don't say no mickey
so come on and give it to me anyway you can
anyway you want to do it i'll take it like a man
oh please baby please don't leave me in the damn mickey
(repeat chorus x2)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey, hey mickey
(repeat x2)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey
(repeat chorus to fade)
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey, hey mickey (repeat x3)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey
hey mickey
you've been around all night
and that's a little long
you think you got the right
but i think you got it wrong
oh can't you say goodnight
so you can take me home mickey?
'cause when you say you will
it always means you won't
you're givin me the chills baby, please baby don't
every night you still leave me all alone mickey
(chorus)
oh mickey what a pity you don't understand
you take me by the heart
when you take me by the hand
oh mickey you're so pretty can't you understand
it's guys like you mickey
and what you do mickey, do mickey
don't break my heart mickey
hey mickey
now if you take me by the who's ever gonna know
everytime you move i let a little more show
there's something you can use
so don't say no mickey
so come on and give it to me anyway you can
anyway you want to do it i'll take it like a man
oh please baby please don't leave me in the damn mickey
(repeat chorus x2)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey, hey mickey
(repeat x2)
oh mickey you're so fine
you're so fine you blow my mind
hey mickey
(repeat chorus to fade)
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to the comment above me... are you a frikkin idiot?!
it's not about drugs. this is probably the most obvious song in the world.it's about a guy.