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"
In my life, there's been changes
But nothing seems to satisfy me the way you do, no
You make it easy, the way you please me
Every time I'm close to you
All this temptation
I can't see wrong from right
It's a new sensation
You know I'm blinded by the light
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time you come 'round
You were all I ever wanted
Never had a girl in my life 'til I met you, oh no, no
I got a certain feeling and you got my senses reeling
Whenever I get close to you
Yeah, you're my salvation
I found you just in time
Ah, my one temptation
You know I can't believe you're mine
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time that you come 'round
Ooh, it's funny how it sees like yesterday
Ooh, lovin' of the first degree
One word was all I heard you say, ooh baby
It's funny what you've done to me
Just wanna see you run to me
Yeah, all this temptation
I can't see wrong from right
It's a new sensation,
You know I'm blinded by the light
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time that you come 'round, yeah, yeah
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
But nothing seems to satisfy me the way you do, no
You make it easy, the way you please me
Every time I'm close to you
All this temptation
I can't see wrong from right
It's a new sensation
You know I'm blinded by the light
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time you come 'round
You were all I ever wanted
Never had a girl in my life 'til I met you, oh no, no
I got a certain feeling and you got my senses reeling
Whenever I get close to you
Yeah, you're my salvation
I found you just in time
Ah, my one temptation
You know I can't believe you're mine
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time that you come 'round
Ooh, it's funny how it sees like yesterday
Ooh, lovin' of the first degree
One word was all I heard you say, ooh baby
It's funny what you've done to me
Just wanna see you run to me
Yeah, all this temptation
I can't see wrong from right
It's a new sensation,
You know I'm blinded by the light
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Every time that you come 'round, yeah, yeah
(Feels like) I'm walking on holy water
Feels like I'm walking on sacred ground, baby
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