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"
Come on Johnny, when you gonna get here?
Alright, hold your pretty horses, I'll be there in a minute
You just get yourself dolled up, alright toots
And you pick a place, you just pick a place
Um, Johnny?
Yeah, Gwenie, Gwen, Gwen?
You might wanna hurry, because tonight is the night
I'm empty, I need fulfilling, yes I do, love
A to the ceiling, when I do, love
I get this feeling when I'm in love
I'm restless, can't you see I try my bestest
To be good girl, because it's just us
So take me now and do me justice
I'm waiting patiently anticipating your arrival
And I'm hating
It takes so long to get to my house
To take me out
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Okay now, I understand he's on his way now
But jeez Louise, I mean today now
I can't wait, I wanna play now (ooh ooh)
I'm antsy
Bubble pop electric pansies
My sweet tooth, I want your candy
The Queen of Eng would say it randy (ha ha ha ha)
I'm itchy
I wish you would come and scratch me
Tonight I'm falling, won't you catch me?
Swoop on by, so you can snatch me
And take me out
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
(I'll get it)
The need to be satisfied
(Hey Johnny, let me go grab my sweater)
Come pick me up I want a ride
(Hi Mrs. Stefani)
Hurry, hurry come to me (bye mom)
(So baby, where you wanna go, huh?)
Drive-in movie
Drive in, move me
Drive into me
Bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it
(Straight to me, drive-in movie)
Take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet
(Come to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it
(Straight to me, drive-in movie)
Take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet
(Come to me, drive-in movie)
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love (bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it)
In the back seat (straight to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric (take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet)
Bubble pop electric (come to me, drive-in movie)
Gonna speed it down and slow it up (bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it)
In the back seat (straight to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Yeah, tell your father, I said hello
Johnny, get out of here
Alright, hold your pretty horses, I'll be there in a minute
You just get yourself dolled up, alright toots
And you pick a place, you just pick a place
Um, Johnny?
Yeah, Gwenie, Gwen, Gwen?
You might wanna hurry, because tonight is the night
I'm empty, I need fulfilling, yes I do, love
A to the ceiling, when I do, love
I get this feeling when I'm in love
I'm restless, can't you see I try my bestest
To be good girl, because it's just us
So take me now and do me justice
I'm waiting patiently anticipating your arrival
And I'm hating
It takes so long to get to my house
To take me out
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Okay now, I understand he's on his way now
But jeez Louise, I mean today now
I can't wait, I wanna play now (ooh ooh)
I'm antsy
Bubble pop electric pansies
My sweet tooth, I want your candy
The Queen of Eng would say it randy (ha ha ha ha)
I'm itchy
I wish you would come and scratch me
Tonight I'm falling, won't you catch me?
Swoop on by, so you can snatch me
And take me out
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
(I'll get it)
The need to be satisfied
(Hey Johnny, let me go grab my sweater)
Come pick me up I want a ride
(Hi Mrs. Stefani)
Hurry, hurry come to me (bye mom)
(So baby, where you wanna go, huh?)
Drive-in movie
Drive in, move me
Drive into me
Bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it
(Straight to me, drive-in movie)
Take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet
(Come to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it
(Straight to me, drive-in movie)
Take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet
(Come to me, drive-in movie)
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Bubble pop electric
Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the back seat
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love (bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it)
In the back seat (straight to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric (take it to the back seat, run it like a track meet)
Bubble pop electric (come to me, drive-in movie)
Gonna speed it down and slow it up (bubble pop electric, you've gotta get it)
In the back seat (straight to me, drive-in movie)
Bubble pop electric
Uh-oh, in the back seat
Yeah, tell your father, I said hello
Johnny, get out of here
Lyrics submitted by vanessarox_09
Bubble Pop Electric Lyrics as written by Gwen Stefani Andre Benjamin
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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