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'm on a mission
To abuse my position
Abuse it with you
Love, I'm a cynical bitch
I'm gonna scratch that itch
With a bitch like you
Harder thinkers make me miserable
Everything is unforgivable
If not for you
I wouldn't come at all
Find a place to crash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Move your phoney ass
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Love me like I'm cash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
You can feel the clash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
[Guitar]
If there's a freak in here
Looking for someone like me
I fit their description
Perfectly
Boom boom boom
I bet they'll desert you
They would if they met you
Met you with me
Every move you make is poetry
They all fake what you do naturally
If not for you
I wouldn't come at all
Find a place to crash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Move your phoney ass
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Love me like I'm cash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
You can see the clash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Kiss me with your mouth
Teach me with your brain
All right
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Things that I say
When I say nothing at all
It leaves a taste in my stomach
And its no taste at all
I can sing, I can't dance
But it don't stop me at all
Its a ball and I'll call , if I call you at all
Love is the reason but it won't pay my rent
Only baloney fill your dish in the dent
I won't be happy till the moneys been spent
I forget to forget, oh forget, oh forget
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
To abuse my position
Abuse it with you
Love, I'm a cynical bitch
I'm gonna scratch that itch
With a bitch like you
Harder thinkers make me miserable
Everything is unforgivable
If not for you
I wouldn't come at all
Find a place to crash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Move your phoney ass
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Love me like I'm cash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
You can feel the clash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
[Guitar]
If there's a freak in here
Looking for someone like me
I fit their description
Perfectly
Boom boom boom
I bet they'll desert you
They would if they met you
Met you with me
Every move you make is poetry
They all fake what you do naturally
If not for you
I wouldn't come at all
Find a place to crash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Move your phoney ass
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Love me like I'm cash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
You can see the clash
(Boom boom, boom boom labida)
Kiss me with your mouth
Teach me with your brain
All right
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Things that I say
When I say nothing at all
It leaves a taste in my stomach
And its no taste at all
I can sing, I can't dance
But it don't stop me at all
Its a ball and I'll call , if I call you at all
Love is the reason but it won't pay my rent
Only baloney fill your dish in the dent
I won't be happy till the moneys been spent
I forget to forget, oh forget, oh forget
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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I agree Estrella! This song is so fun, it stands out (among the other "heavier" stuff) and make you want to dance... :) Nothing special, just one of Rob's fun songs !!
robbie is really on a mission..
otherwise he has no afterlife (listnen to feel..) he is searching for someone from his past life
An awesome fun song that makes you wanna dance. =] I find meaning in it as in just people are stupid and annoying and if not for a certain someone nothing would matter. "harder thinkers make me misserable, everything is unforgivable, if you not for you, I woudln't come at all"
I love where he says "I'm on a mission to abuse my posistion, abuse it with you...harder thinkiners make me misserable, everything is unforgivable, if not for you, I woudln't come at all!" Just like it =]
Finding a place to crash, the right place to be- everyone get out of his way, "move your phoney ass"
Kinda could be a song about moving into an appartment with not so much money....seems odd but possible
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