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"
All right, oh!
Comin' to you, honey, on the east side runnin'
And I ain't got time to waste
Jump into the car in the back seat lovin'
But you keep me on the chase
[Bridge]
I've been trying all night long
I put up with your favorite songs all night
Tempted by your tainted love
I surely like the way you come
Inside my crystal ball
What can I do?
[Chorus]
Is it true what they say, you won't give it away?
And I don't know what to do to get next to you, next to you
Every night, every day
You just push me away
Tell me what should I do
To get next to you, next to you
I've been trying all night long, and I want to get next to you
I wrote about you, baby, in this song 'cause I want to get next to you
Next to you
Better than Kool-Aid sweet, my buttercup baby's got a pretty face
I got to have it; it's another bad habit
And I hope I'm not here too late
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
I've been trying all night long 'cause I want to get next to you
I wrote about you, baby, in this song, and I want to get next to you
Next to you
Spent my money, teasing me, honey
What should I do?
When you gonna show me?
I think you owe me
Come on, baby, see it through
Next to you
Next to you
Next to you
Is it true what they say, you won't give it away?
And I don't know what to do to get next to you, next to you
Every night, every day
You just push me away
Tell me what should I do
What should I do?
What should I do to get next to you?
Next to you
Next to you
Next to you
I've been trying all night long
'Cause I want to get next to you
Comin' to you, honey, on the east side runnin'
And I ain't got time to waste
Jump into the car in the back seat lovin'
But you keep me on the chase
[Bridge]
I've been trying all night long
I put up with your favorite songs all night
Tempted by your tainted love
I surely like the way you come
Inside my crystal ball
What can I do?
[Chorus]
Is it true what they say, you won't give it away?
And I don't know what to do to get next to you, next to you
Every night, every day
You just push me away
Tell me what should I do
To get next to you, next to you
I've been trying all night long, and I want to get next to you
I wrote about you, baby, in this song 'cause I want to get next to you
Next to you
Better than Kool-Aid sweet, my buttercup baby's got a pretty face
I got to have it; it's another bad habit
And I hope I'm not here too late
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
I've been trying all night long 'cause I want to get next to you
I wrote about you, baby, in this song, and I want to get next to you
Next to you
Spent my money, teasing me, honey
What should I do?
When you gonna show me?
I think you owe me
Come on, baby, see it through
Next to you
Next to you
Next to you
Is it true what they say, you won't give it away?
And I don't know what to do to get next to you, next to you
Every night, every day
You just push me away
Tell me what should I do
What should I do?
What should I do to get next to you?
Next to you
Next to you
Next to you
I've been trying all night long
'Cause I want to get next to you
Lyrics submitted by sweetnlow866
Next 2 You Lyrics as written by Iv Ashhurst James H.
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is awsome we need more people to comment on it. Hell, it has every guy's intention, to get "next 2 you" in bed, a car, a bush, utitlity closet, or anywhere else, too.