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 get this feeling sometimes
Like theres nothing in the world that isn't mine
And I could have it all
Maybe I should have it all
I'll take you out of your life
Just the one sweet night
And you could take it all
Oh, maybe I could rip it off
It's easy to pick and choose
With you and me we can only lose
Just don't fight me off
And I won't write you off
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, without a fight
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, let it go
So here I am again
Singing songs about the summer
'Cause that's when you and me
When we came to be
I brought you home to my guitar
And told you how sweet you really are
'Cause you know what's on my mind
Is you getting all this time
It's easy to pick and choose
With you and me we can only lose
Just don't find me out
And I won't fight you off
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, let it go
Oh no no, another girl, no no
Don't fight me off little girl
Like theres nothing in the world that isn't mine
And I could have it all
Maybe I should have it all
I'll take you out of your life
Just the one sweet night
And you could take it all
Oh, maybe I could rip it off
It's easy to pick and choose
With you and me we can only lose
Just don't fight me off
And I won't write you off
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, without a fight
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, let it go
So here I am again
Singing songs about the summer
'Cause that's when you and me
When we came to be
I brought you home to my guitar
And told you how sweet you really are
'Cause you know what's on my mind
Is you getting all this time
It's easy to pick and choose
With you and me we can only lose
Just don't find me out
And I won't fight you off
Take me in and then you push me out
Fall all over yourself tonight
And just don't let it go, let it go
Oh no no, another girl, no no
Don't fight me off little girl
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Take me in and then you push me out Fall all over yourself tonight And just don't let it go, without a fight Take me in and then you push me out Fall all over yourself tonight And just don't let it go, let it go
In my opinion, the singer seems frustrated (as are most teenage boys) when they aren't allowed to go further. He's complaining that she is receptive at first to his advances and then stops him. I believe, "fall all over yourself tonight" is slang for, um... self love. "And just don't let it go without a fight" is based on the male creed, if at first you don't succeed! The next verse he talks about trying to woo her while slightly resentful about the fact he hasn't and isn't getting any, "Cause you know what's on my mind... is you getting all this time". The last verse/screaming part makes me think that ultimately the speaker got what they wanted, whether from the girl he was with or "another girl." Honestly, I think it's obvious what kind of guy Luke is. A lot of their music has this theme, although these ones written later are more mature, think "So Vicious" and that line in "See the Sun," "Oh no! I didn't mean to say what I did say, all about lovers and how they should lay. That was never for me to say and say. Don't you see now how I pay?"