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 need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One that I can love
To have and to hold
One for at the club
One back at the home
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need a girl that's clean
To bring home to my mom
And one thats got legs that
Are open and long
One that thinks I'm right
One knows that I'm wrong
One that always fights
And throws my clothes on the lawn
One that does laundry
And cooks food in the kitchen
One that says she's sorry
And one just doesn't listen
This girl wears make-up
And that girl's plain
This girl is great
But that girl's insane
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One lives in a house
With a white pickett fence
The other, high heels
And a tight mini dress
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One wants a lady killer
And one's dead
One wants to get all
Up in my head
One minds her business
Cause she's self-employed
One's independent
One needs help from a boy
One sees potential in a man
When he's broke
The other one's still thinking
That this band is a joke
One hits the road
Like the second you cum
The other one you wake up
When your breakfast is done
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One that gets jealous
When I try to be free
One that's with the fellas
Everytime that I leave
I need two girls
If I can't have you
This girl's romantic
But that girl is nasty
This girl's a tramp
But then that girl's so classy
One speaks french
And the language of love
The other's bangin on me
Like an African drum
I need two girls
We have to be done
Cause all these girls add up
To like half of your sum
So if you brake my heart
Or just be havin some fun
I need two girls
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
I need two girls
I need two girls
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One that I can love
To have and to hold
One for at the club
One back at the home
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need a girl that's clean
To bring home to my mom
And one thats got legs that
Are open and long
One that thinks I'm right
One knows that I'm wrong
One that always fights
And throws my clothes on the lawn
One that does laundry
And cooks food in the kitchen
One that says she's sorry
And one just doesn't listen
This girl wears make-up
And that girl's plain
This girl is great
But that girl's insane
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One lives in a house
With a white pickett fence
The other, high heels
And a tight mini dress
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One wants a lady killer
And one's dead
One wants to get all
Up in my head
One minds her business
Cause she's self-employed
One's independent
One needs help from a boy
One sees potential in a man
When he's broke
The other one's still thinking
That this band is a joke
One hits the road
Like the second you cum
The other one you wake up
When your breakfast is done
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
One that gets jealous
When I try to be free
One that's with the fellas
Everytime that I leave
I need two girls
If I can't have you
This girl's romantic
But that girl is nasty
This girl's a tramp
But then that girl's so classy
One speaks french
And the language of love
The other's bangin on me
Like an African drum
I need two girls
We have to be done
Cause all these girls add up
To like half of your sum
So if you brake my heart
Or just be havin some fun
I need two girls
I need I need
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
If I can't have you
I need two girls
I need two girls
I need two girls
I need two girls
Lyrics submitted by BellaNeroCane
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I think this song is about a guy who recently got dumped by a girlfriend he still loves who played all these different roles for him. She could be wild and crazy and still be a stable girl when she needed to. Now that he's single again, he figures he'll need two different girls since he thinks no one could be as versatile as she was. And, if he's back on the market, why not "have some fun" and actually try to get two girls?