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"
All the time
It's always on my mind
All the time
It's always on my mind
The things that are runnin
Through this young girl's head
When I get up in the morning
When I'm goin' to bed
When I'm drivin' in my car
When I'm talkin' on my cell
Crammin' for a final
When I'm watchin TRL
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
I get distracted
When I'm standin in a
Line at the ATM
When I'm stirrin my sugar
In my café mocha blend
When the radio is playin'
A song like this
I float away suddenly
Dreamin of your kiss
I know it's crazy
Livin' in this fantasy
But I don't know how to
Break this spell
You put on me
Tryin' to stay focussed
On the things
I'm supposed to do
But before I know it
My attention's back on you
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
Distracted, yeah
(Can't help myself)
You got me in a daze
I know it's crazy
Livin' in this fantasy
But I don't know how to
Break this spell
You put on me
Tryin' to stay focussed
On the things
I'm supposed to do
But before I know it
My attention's back on you
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
(Come on, baby)
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
(It's what I do,
I think about you)
Distracted, yeah
(Can't help myself)
Disconnected, yeah
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
(Preoccupied)
You got me in a daze
(In daze)
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
I get distracted
Disconnected, yeah
(It's what I do,
I think about you)
I get distracted
It's always on my mind
All the time
It's always on my mind
The things that are runnin
Through this young girl's head
When I get up in the morning
When I'm goin' to bed
When I'm drivin' in my car
When I'm talkin' on my cell
Crammin' for a final
When I'm watchin TRL
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
I get distracted
When I'm standin in a
Line at the ATM
When I'm stirrin my sugar
In my café mocha blend
When the radio is playin'
A song like this
I float away suddenly
Dreamin of your kiss
I know it's crazy
Livin' in this fantasy
But I don't know how to
Break this spell
You put on me
Tryin' to stay focussed
On the things
I'm supposed to do
But before I know it
My attention's back on you
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
Distracted, yeah
(Can't help myself)
You got me in a daze
I know it's crazy
Livin' in this fantasy
But I don't know how to
Break this spell
You put on me
Tryin' to stay focussed
On the things
I'm supposed to do
But before I know it
My attention's back on you
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
You got me in a daze
(Come on, baby)
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
(It's what I do,
I think about you)
Distracted, yeah
(Can't help myself)
Disconnected, yeah
I think about love
I get distracted
When I think about
Hookin' up with you
It gets all my concentration
But ooh, ooh
I go preoccupied
(Preoccupied)
You got me in a daze
(In daze)
I get distracted, yeah
Disconnected, yeah
I get distracted
Disconnected, yeah
(It's what I do,
I think about you)
I get distracted
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Distracted Lyrics as written by David Martin Frank David Frank
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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