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"
He looks so good, my honey to me
Everything I want everything I need
We got a good thing going,
Feeling in my heart should only keep on growing
Too good to be true
Checkered love got me thinking of
All the mess I made, just a ton of trouble
Always left bad blood
When I was a kid in America
Pulling it apart
Can I keep it under control?
I could never keep my eyes on the road for long enough to know, oh
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better than you choose
Pulling it apart
A siren for you baby
Taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah! send his body back to me
Jump-start heart, now don't fall apart
I gotta get it right, so tell me
Killer what you got?
Don't wanna blow it 'cause I know just what
I hold in my hands
Parted lips never tell me to go
I wanna do you right, never be another like you I know, oh
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better yeah you are
Pulling it apart
A siren for you baby
Taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah, send his body back to me
Pick him up and sew him up and send him to me
Fix him up and shake him up and send him to me
Pick him up and sew him up and send him to me (pulling it apart)
Fix him up and shake him up and send him to me (pulling it apart)
Taking over honey I can feel it in me (send him back to me)
Fix him up and send him to me, yeah!
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better yeah you are
Pulling it apart
Baby, taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah, send his body back to me, me, me
Oh baby, taking over now I feel you, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah! Send his body back to me
Everything I want everything I need
We got a good thing going,
Feeling in my heart should only keep on growing
Too good to be true
Checkered love got me thinking of
All the mess I made, just a ton of trouble
Always left bad blood
When I was a kid in America
Pulling it apart
Can I keep it under control?
I could never keep my eyes on the road for long enough to know, oh
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better than you choose
Pulling it apart
A siren for you baby
Taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah! send his body back to me
Jump-start heart, now don't fall apart
I gotta get it right, so tell me
Killer what you got?
Don't wanna blow it 'cause I know just what
I hold in my hands
Parted lips never tell me to go
I wanna do you right, never be another like you I know, oh
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better yeah you are
Pulling it apart
A siren for you baby
Taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah, send his body back to me
Pick him up and sew him up and send him to me
Fix him up and shake him up and send him to me
Pick him up and sew him up and send him to me (pulling it apart)
Fix him up and shake him up and send him to me (pulling it apart)
Taking over honey I can feel it in me (send him back to me)
Fix him up and send him to me, yeah!
Ain't it true, always looking out for something better yeah you are
Pulling it apart
Baby, taking over now I feel you
Taking over now I want you
Lying on a bed of roses
In a sea of broken arrows (you can do it you can make it happen)
I can feel my honey, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah, send his body back to me, me, me
Oh baby, taking over now I feel you, oh yeah!
Don't fall under my wheels
Run over, just like a juggernaut
Oh yeah! Send his body back to me
Lyrics submitted by butterflykiss84
Kim Wilde Lyrics as written by Charlotte Hatherley
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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