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"
I was young I was dumb
Didn't know what I was thinking
Use to think that I could rule the world
That's the way I be living
Fast cars always shopping at the malls
Never caring for your heart
Always with my friend yeah..
'Til you came along
And opened up my eyes
You asked me what was goin' on
Seemed that I had changed inside oh my
Said I was tripping
And slowly slipping
In another bad situation
And I said to myself
I don't wanna go that route
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
you're my moon,you're my sun
You're my stars you are my everythang
And I'm sorry if I haven't made
You feel that way...ok...
I've been a fool I know its true
And I gotta make it....up to you babe
I gotta show you that I still
Acknowledge you...
till you came along
And opened up my eyes
You asked me wha was goin on
Seemed that I had changed inside...oh my
Said I was triping
And slowly slipping
In another bad situation
And I said to myself
I don't wanan go that route
[chorus]
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
o0oh
I love you more than anything
O0oh
For you I won't change a thang
O0oh
Girl you know I'm still the same
'cause I'll always be there for you
And you'll always be there for me
Yeah oh yeah
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
you know that I won't change babe
[Rap feat: gemini]
yeah
Lets go..from the the start of it all
You were there for me
Before the range and the benz
Before everythang uh
Memba those nights...
No lights no food on the stove
Just me just you and a baby to hold
Whoooh
And now you saying me and you
That we strayed away
And that we haven't been the same
Since the money came
But the money means nothing
If I don't have you...uh uh
To support and back me in everythang
That I do... 'cause if you ain't there
Then why am I here...tell her
Please understand that I care...uh
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
Didn't know what I was thinking
Use to think that I could rule the world
That's the way I be living
Fast cars always shopping at the malls
Never caring for your heart
Always with my friend yeah..
'Til you came along
And opened up my eyes
You asked me what was goin' on
Seemed that I had changed inside oh my
Said I was tripping
And slowly slipping
In another bad situation
And I said to myself
I don't wanna go that route
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
you're my moon,you're my sun
You're my stars you are my everythang
And I'm sorry if I haven't made
You feel that way...ok...
I've been a fool I know its true
And I gotta make it....up to you babe
I gotta show you that I still
Acknowledge you...
till you came along
And opened up my eyes
You asked me wha was goin on
Seemed that I had changed inside...oh my
Said I was triping
And slowly slipping
In another bad situation
And I said to myself
I don't wanan go that route
[chorus]
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
o0oh
I love you more than anything
O0oh
For you I won't change a thang
O0oh
Girl you know I'm still the same
'cause I'll always be there for you
And you'll always be there for me
Yeah oh yeah
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
you know that I won't change babe
[Rap feat: gemini]
yeah
Lets go..from the the start of it all
You were there for me
Before the range and the benz
Before everythang uh
Memba those nights...
No lights no food on the stove
Just me just you and a baby to hold
Whoooh
And now you saying me and you
That we strayed away
And that we haven't been the same
Since the money came
But the money means nothing
If I don't have you...uh uh
To support and back me in everythang
That I do... 'cause if you ain't there
Then why am I here...tell her
Please understand that I care...uh
'cause I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I'm still down
I don't wanna loose you babe
Just keep me on the ground
I don't wanna loose you babe
You know that I won't change
'cause for you I'll do anythang and everythang
You know that I won't change a thang
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