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 saw your friend first
That's who I danced with
All the time I was watchin' you
The music rocked us
Our eyes locked-thus
Makin' us see a trippy picture shoo
Oh, if a man is considered guilty
For what goes on in his mind
Then give me the electric chair
For all my future crimes, oh
Ooh-ooh
You whispered something
It took my mind out like a
G flat major with an e in the bass
Your face looked so good
I wanted to touch your mouth
My brain is jackin' all over the place
Oh, if a man is considered guilty
For what goes on in his mind
Then give me the electric chair
For all my future crimes, oh
Yeah
Yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's take a drive, love
So we can make up our minds, love
To commit the crimes of passion
That sets us free
Me lovin' you, you lovin' me (me lovin' you, you lovin' me)
Ooh, ow, ooh, ooh
(The electric chair)
I saw your friend first
That's who I danced with
All the time I was watchin' you (I was watchin' you)
The music rocked us
Our lives shocked us
Makin' us see a trippy picture shoo
(I've got to have it)
Said, I've got to yeah, yeah
(If a man is considered guilty) guilty
(For what goes on in his mind)
(Then give me the electric chair) electric chair
(For all my future crimes, oh)
You know I'm guilty, yeah, (for all my future crimes)
Guilty, (for all my future crimes)
And if ya don't really love me
(Then give me the electric chair) oh
Electric chair
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
That's who I danced with
All the time I was watchin' you
The music rocked us
Our eyes locked-thus
Makin' us see a trippy picture shoo
Oh, if a man is considered guilty
For what goes on in his mind
Then give me the electric chair
For all my future crimes, oh
Ooh-ooh
You whispered something
It took my mind out like a
G flat major with an e in the bass
Your face looked so good
I wanted to touch your mouth
My brain is jackin' all over the place
Oh, if a man is considered guilty
For what goes on in his mind
Then give me the electric chair
For all my future crimes, oh
Yeah
Yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's take a drive, love
So we can make up our minds, love
To commit the crimes of passion
That sets us free
Me lovin' you, you lovin' me (me lovin' you, you lovin' me)
Ooh, ow, ooh, ooh
(The electric chair)
I saw your friend first
That's who I danced with
All the time I was watchin' you (I was watchin' you)
The music rocked us
Our lives shocked us
Makin' us see a trippy picture shoo
(I've got to have it)
Said, I've got to yeah, yeah
(If a man is considered guilty) guilty
(For what goes on in his mind)
(Then give me the electric chair) electric chair
(For all my future crimes, oh)
You know I'm guilty, yeah, (for all my future crimes)
Guilty, (for all my future crimes)
And if ya don't really love me
(Then give me the electric chair) oh
Electric chair
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Lyrics submitted by Gothy_Bura
Electric Chair Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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