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"
Ooo, ahh
I know what you want
And I know what you need
But I’m goin’ screw it up
Yeah
'Cause I’m an idiot
And I’m your boyfriend
Yes, I am
I’m goin’ take you out
And leave my wallet home
Then I use your cell phone, baby
Long distance
And I’m your boyfriend
Baby, I know I’m a man who’s made mistakes
I still got some learning to do
I made out with your best friend the other day
And now we’re best friends too
Yeah, yeah
And I know what you want
And I know what you need
But I’m goin’ screw it up, yeah
'Cause I’m an idiot
And I’m your boyfriend
Yes, I am
And I’m goin’ get you a gift
Hey! But it's something I like too
Hope you like this Norelco Beard Trimmer with my name on it
And I’m your boyfriend
Baby, baby
Yeah
Baby
Goin’ get real drunk
And call my baby up
At four o’clock in the morning
Wake you up
I’m an idiot!
Pick up the phone, come on
I love you!
Let's get in my dad’s SUV
And we’ll go over to my house, my crib, my pad
I’ll tell my mom to go to sleep
Then we’ll have the living room all to ourselves, you see
We’ll put on some great DVDs I picked up
How 'bout like
Something like "The Matrix"
Ooo, ahh
I can turn my boom box up, and make the bass
Smack the side of my mom's couch
Yeah!
Hey, baby
You like fine cooking?
'Cause you know what?
I got a Swanson's dinner in the freezer with your name on it
Check it out!
Yeah!
I got a permanent wave, yeah!
I got an Ogilvie home perm, baby
Uh!
I Honk the horn can you honk the horn?
Can you honk the horn?
Let me hear you honk it! Come on!
Let me hear you say uh uh!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh!
Let me see you say uh uh!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh yeah!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh yeah!
I know what you want
And I know what you need
But I’m goin’ screw it up
Yeah
'Cause I’m an idiot
And I’m your boyfriend
Yes, I am
I’m goin’ take you out
And leave my wallet home
Then I use your cell phone, baby
Long distance
And I’m your boyfriend
Baby, I know I’m a man who’s made mistakes
I still got some learning to do
I made out with your best friend the other day
And now we’re best friends too
Yeah, yeah
And I know what you want
And I know what you need
But I’m goin’ screw it up, yeah
'Cause I’m an idiot
And I’m your boyfriend
Yes, I am
And I’m goin’ get you a gift
Hey! But it's something I like too
Hope you like this Norelco Beard Trimmer with my name on it
And I’m your boyfriend
Baby, baby
Yeah
Baby
Goin’ get real drunk
And call my baby up
At four o’clock in the morning
Wake you up
I’m an idiot!
Pick up the phone, come on
I love you!
Let's get in my dad’s SUV
And we’ll go over to my house, my crib, my pad
I’ll tell my mom to go to sleep
Then we’ll have the living room all to ourselves, you see
We’ll put on some great DVDs I picked up
How 'bout like
Something like "The Matrix"
Ooo, ahh
I can turn my boom box up, and make the bass
Smack the side of my mom's couch
Yeah!
Hey, baby
You like fine cooking?
'Cause you know what?
I got a Swanson's dinner in the freezer with your name on it
Check it out!
Yeah!
I got a permanent wave, yeah!
I got an Ogilvie home perm, baby
Uh!
I Honk the horn can you honk the horn?
Can you honk the horn?
Let me hear you honk it! Come on!
Let me hear you say uh uh!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh!
Let me see you say uh uh!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh yeah!
Let me hear you say uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh yeah!
Lyrics submitted by Gtgirl1
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o yeah and the video is great too..