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"
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Me recuerda a el olor de su piel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me recuerda el sabor de sus besos
El color del final de la noche
Me pregunta dónde fui a parar, donde estás
Que esto sólo se vive una vez
Dónde fuiste a parar, dónde estás
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Y una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
Una rosa que no floreció
Pero que el tiempo no la marchita
Una flor prometida a un amor que no fue
Pero que sigue viva
Y otra vez
El color del final
Del final de la noche
Me pregunta a donde fui a parar
Que esto sólo se vive una vez
Donde fuiste a parar, dónde estás
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella (ay, que vuelva por ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
Pero fueron las mismas estrellas que un día
Marcaron mis manos
Y apartaron la flor, esa flor de mi vida
De mi vida
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas, no
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
La ra la la, la la la
No se olvida
El tiempo sigue andando y sigue igual
Pensando (ah ah)
Ay, pensando
Me recuerda a el olor de su piel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me recuerda el sabor de sus besos
El color del final de la noche
Me pregunta dónde fui a parar, donde estás
Que esto sólo se vive una vez
Dónde fuiste a parar, dónde estás
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Y una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
Una rosa que no floreció
Pero que el tiempo no la marchita
Una flor prometida a un amor que no fue
Pero que sigue viva
Y otra vez
El color del final
Del final de la noche
Me pregunta a donde fui a parar
Que esto sólo se vive una vez
Donde fuiste a parar, dónde estás
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella (ay, que vuelva por ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
Pero fueron las mismas estrellas que un día
Marcaron mis manos
Y apartaron la flor, esa flor de mi vida
De mi vida
Un olor a tabaco y Chanel
Una mezcla de miel y café
Me preguntan por ella (ella)
Me preguntan por ella
Me preguntan también las estrellas, no
Me reclaman que vuelva por ella
Ay, que vuelva por ella (ella)
Ay, que vuelva por ella
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida
No se va, no se olvida nada, nada
La ra la la, la la la
No se olvida
El tiempo sigue andando y sigue igual
Pensando (ah ah)
Ay, pensando
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Tabaco y Chanel Lyrics as written by Jorge Villamizar
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