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"
She's got the time
Says she's got time on her side
Running the room
Commanding the late boys' eyes
She runs around
Knows all the streets by name
Knows all the streets by name
So mysterious, shadows meet James Dean
She's intoxicating, soon your favorite drink
Your black dress in disarray
Only dance floor prayers can save
Temperatures rise and I start to move
But it's you that's coursing through my veins
Says she's got hope
Took shelter to the Hollywood list, taking control
Wanted my heart but I gave her my soul
She's like a Paige Davis with a Monroe kiss
Disappeared today, left no trace
But someday I'll know your name
Your black dress in disarray
Only dance floor prayers can save
Temperatures rise and I start to move
But it's you that's coursing through my veins
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
She's no saint, she's no saint
She's no saint but she'll take you to your knees
Try her boy but she'll still do what she please
Do you believe in science? She's perfect chemistry
She wanted my love but I gave her the rest of me
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You'll adore me before the night is over
You'll adore me before the night is over
If London's calling don't you dare pick up the phone
Only you entwined could make this orphan feel at home
Lips that need no introduction but now waiting for your call
If picture's worth a thousand words then your touch is worth them all
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You're my chemical
Swear I'm clinical
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You're my chemical
No, not cynical
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] leave us in the dark
Says she's got time on her side
Running the room
Commanding the late boys' eyes
She runs around
Knows all the streets by name
Knows all the streets by name
So mysterious, shadows meet James Dean
She's intoxicating, soon your favorite drink
Your black dress in disarray
Only dance floor prayers can save
Temperatures rise and I start to move
But it's you that's coursing through my veins
Says she's got hope
Took shelter to the Hollywood list, taking control
Wanted my heart but I gave her my soul
She's like a Paige Davis with a Monroe kiss
Disappeared today, left no trace
But someday I'll know your name
Your black dress in disarray
Only dance floor prayers can save
Temperatures rise and I start to move
But it's you that's coursing through my veins
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
She's no saint, she's no saint
She's no saint but she'll take you to your knees
Try her boy but she'll still do what she please
Do you believe in science? She's perfect chemistry
She wanted my love but I gave her the rest of me
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You'll adore me before the night is over
You'll adore me before the night is over
If London's calling don't you dare pick up the phone
Only you entwined could make this orphan feel at home
Lips that need no introduction but now waiting for your call
If picture's worth a thousand words then your touch is worth them all
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no, not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You're my chemical
Swear I'm clinical
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
You're my chemical
No, not cynical
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] leave us in the dark
Lyrics submitted by redgrindle
dance, dance Christa Päffgen Lyrics as written by Joseph Milligan (16580) Deon Rexroat (16581)
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