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"
We're going on a holiday now
Gonna take a villa, a small chalet
The Costa del Magnifico
Yeah, the cost of living is so low
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
By the pool (twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
Twisting, twisting by the pool
Sitting in a small cafe now
Swing, swing, swingin' to the cabaret
You wanna see a movie, take in a show now
Meet new people at the disco
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
By the pool (twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the
(Twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
And we can still get information
Reading all about inflation
And you're never gonna be out of reach
There's a call-box on the beach
(On the beach, on the beach)
So one, a two
A one, a two, a three
Alright
We're just twisting by the pool
I'm a twisting fool (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
Mm-mm, you're gonna look so cute
Sunglasses and bathing suite
Be the baby of my dreams
Like the ladies in the magazine
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Oh yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
We're just twisting by the (twisting by the)
Oh, by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
I'm a twisting fool
Just twisting, yeah twisting (twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the pool
Everybody got to do
the twisting (twisting by the pool)
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool
Now look
Get wild
(Twisting by the pool)
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool
Now everybody just to do it
twisting by the pool
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
Look here
Come on and (twisting by the pool)
I'm twisting fool (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the boat
Gonna take a villa, a small chalet
The Costa del Magnifico
Yeah, the cost of living is so low
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
By the pool (twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
Twisting, twisting by the pool
Sitting in a small cafe now
Swing, swing, swingin' to the cabaret
You wanna see a movie, take in a show now
Meet new people at the disco
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
By the pool (twisting by the pool)
We're twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the
(Twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
And we can still get information
Reading all about inflation
And you're never gonna be out of reach
There's a call-box on the beach
(On the beach, on the beach)
So one, a two
A one, a two, a three
Alright
We're just twisting by the pool
I'm a twisting fool (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
Mm-mm, you're gonna look so cute
Sunglasses and bathing suite
Be the baby of my dreams
Like the ladies in the magazine
Yeah, (yeah) gonna be so neat
Dance (dance) to the Euro beat
Oh yeah, (yeah) gonna be so cool
Twisting by the (twisting by the)
We're just twisting by the (twisting by the)
Oh, by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the pool
(Twisting by the pool)
I'm a twisting fool
Just twisting, yeah twisting (twisting by the pool)
Twisting by the pool
Everybody got to do
the twisting (twisting by the pool)
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool
Now look
Get wild
(Twisting by the pool)
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool
Now everybody just to do it
twisting by the pool
And we're twisting (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool
Look here
Come on and (twisting by the pool)
I'm twisting fool (twisting by the pool)
You got me twisting by the pool (twisting by the pool)
Oh, twisting, twisting by the boat
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