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"
Oh, oh yeah, baby
Oh, oh, ay, yeah, oh
Hotter than New Orleans in
Summertime, you're so fine
You walk by now I wish I could press rewind (yeah)
You shining like a disco ball, I can't say no (can't say no)
We probably could break some laws
And not be wrong
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical
I need you, you need me
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Picture us in Florida
In the big beach house, full moon out (c'mon, hey)
We probably would melt the couch when we sit down
And probably take it to the floor
Back and forth (back and forth)
We light up the room like we had a torch
Trust me when I tell you (trust me, babe)
We take the cake, us as one
Next we'll break to see your face
See my face, I'm for real
My good taste and your good shape
They relate, no questions (they relate, yes, they do)
Hold my hand, I'll hold your waist
We'll be straight, basically we're
Simply irresistible (oh, yeah, babe)
That is you, that is me (that is you, baby)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (I want you)
Now it's getting critical
I need you, you need me (c'mon)
I'm so tired of typical (I'm so tired)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is you, baby)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (you want me, babe)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (you need me, darling)
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Hotter than New Orleans (c'mon)
At twelve o'clock we so high, yeah (we so high)
We turn heads at every spot, with what we've got
(What we've got)
I know we got something good, something real
Us as one, just ain't fair, no way 'cause we're
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is me)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (you want me)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (I need you, yes, I do)
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is you, yeah)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical (now it's getting critic-)
I need you and you need me (now it's getting critical, baby)
I'm so tired of typical (you're gonna get weak, darling)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical (you're gonna get weak, darling)
I want you, you want me (I'm gonna get weak, darling)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (oh yes it is, it's getting critical)
I'm so tired of typical (yes it is, I need you, darling)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Oh, oh, ay, yeah, oh
Hotter than New Orleans in
Summertime, you're so fine
You walk by now I wish I could press rewind (yeah)
You shining like a disco ball, I can't say no (can't say no)
We probably could break some laws
And not be wrong
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical
I need you, you need me
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Picture us in Florida
In the big beach house, full moon out (c'mon, hey)
We probably would melt the couch when we sit down
And probably take it to the floor
Back and forth (back and forth)
We light up the room like we had a torch
Trust me when I tell you (trust me, babe)
We take the cake, us as one
Next we'll break to see your face
See my face, I'm for real
My good taste and your good shape
They relate, no questions (they relate, yes, they do)
Hold my hand, I'll hold your waist
We'll be straight, basically we're
Simply irresistible (oh, yeah, babe)
That is you, that is me (that is you, baby)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (I want you)
Now it's getting critical
I need you, you need me (c'mon)
I'm so tired of typical (I'm so tired)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is you, baby)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (you want me, babe)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (you need me, darling)
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Hotter than New Orleans (c'mon)
At twelve o'clock we so high, yeah (we so high)
We turn heads at every spot, with what we've got
(What we've got)
I know we got something good, something real
Us as one, just ain't fair, no way 'cause we're
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is me)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me (you want me)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (I need you, yes, I do)
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me (that is you, yeah)
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical (now it's getting critic-)
I need you and you need me (now it's getting critical, baby)
I'm so tired of typical (you're gonna get weak, darling)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical (you're gonna get weak, darling)
I want you, you want me (I'm gonna get weak, darling)
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me (oh yes it is, it's getting critical)
I'm so tired of typical (yes it is, I need you, darling)
And that ain't you, that ain't me
Simply irresistible
That is you, that is me
Can't wait to get physical
I want you, you want me
Now it's getting critical
I need you and you need me
I'm so tired of typical
And that ain't you, that ain't me
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