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"
Friends are telling me I lost my mind
When I hooked up with you
Maybe that's true
They say that I'll wake up one day
Asking what did I do?
Maybe that's true too
When I'm with you every thing's alright
All I know is how I feel
When you're with me
Waste my time
Waste my time
Not so sure that I'll be yours
And baby you could be mine
It's all about hanging out
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Nothing like an empty day
With nowhere to be
You're right there with me
Laughing as the world goes by
How we let it bay
Moving way to fast
'Cause when I'm with you
I don't really care
What they all want me to be
I just want you beside me
Waste my time
Waste my time
Not so sure that I'll be yours
And baby you could be mine
It's all about hanging out
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Call me Shay on the M-I-C
When you listening to me
You be listening to beat bumping
To the rhythm
That we give 'em
Where we hit 'em
With the beats on the streets
Don't forget the way we living, yo
(Waste my time) cute girl on the other side of the wall
(Waste my time) I like the way you move your body and if you fall
(Not so sure that I'll be yours) I'll be the one that's gonna catch before you hit the ground
(Baby you could be mine) I'm feeling your sound
It's all about (yeah, girl it's all about)
Hanging out (you know we hanging out)
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Waste my time (wasting my time)
Waste my time (yeah yeah)
Not so sure that I'll be yours
But baby you could be mine (you could be mine)
It's all about (yeah girl it's all about)
Hanging out (we hanging out)
'Cause you know how to waste my time (wasting my time)
You know how to waste my time
When I hooked up with you
Maybe that's true
They say that I'll wake up one day
Asking what did I do?
Maybe that's true too
When I'm with you every thing's alright
All I know is how I feel
When you're with me
Waste my time
Waste my time
Not so sure that I'll be yours
And baby you could be mine
It's all about hanging out
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Nothing like an empty day
With nowhere to be
You're right there with me
Laughing as the world goes by
How we let it bay
Moving way to fast
'Cause when I'm with you
I don't really care
What they all want me to be
I just want you beside me
Waste my time
Waste my time
Not so sure that I'll be yours
And baby you could be mine
It's all about hanging out
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Call me Shay on the M-I-C
When you listening to me
You be listening to beat bumping
To the rhythm
That we give 'em
Where we hit 'em
With the beats on the streets
Don't forget the way we living, yo
(Waste my time) cute girl on the other side of the wall
(Waste my time) I like the way you move your body and if you fall
(Not so sure that I'll be yours) I'll be the one that's gonna catch before you hit the ground
(Baby you could be mine) I'm feeling your sound
It's all about (yeah, girl it's all about)
Hanging out (you know we hanging out)
'Cause you know how to waste my time
Waste my time (wasting my time)
Waste my time (yeah yeah)
Not so sure that I'll be yours
But baby you could be mine (you could be mine)
It's all about (yeah girl it's all about)
Hanging out (we hanging out)
'Cause you know how to waste my time (wasting my time)
You know how to waste my time
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Waste My Time Lyrics as written by Christopher Ward Frederic St Gelais
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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