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"
Guess we can still be friends
Guess we can talk at least
But if we were seventeen
Imagine the things we'd do
I know that those days are over,
I'm glad that those games are won
The winners ride off into the sunset
But it's not the same for you
And I don't wanna play those nasty games that adults play
But I don't want to let you go, and I can't see another way
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you
When I see you there alone
It almost breaks my heart
But it doesn't break enough
For me to break my whole life apart
Guess we can still be friends
And we can talk all night
But I have to bite my tongue
And sometimes words don't come out right
We're old enough to know what we can't think or say out loud
To know that hearts are not just cards to play when two's a crowd
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you
The other me
Would take you so far away from here
And he'd be
A man with a mission
The other me
Might even be better than this one
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you.
Guess we can talk at least
But if we were seventeen
Imagine the things we'd do
I know that those days are over,
I'm glad that those games are won
The winners ride off into the sunset
But it's not the same for you
And I don't wanna play those nasty games that adults play
But I don't want to let you go, and I can't see another way
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you
When I see you there alone
It almost breaks my heart
But it doesn't break enough
For me to break my whole life apart
Guess we can still be friends
And we can talk all night
But I have to bite my tongue
And sometimes words don't come out right
We're old enough to know what we can't think or say out loud
To know that hearts are not just cards to play when two's a crowd
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you
The other me
Would take you so far away from here
And he'd be
A man with a mission
The other me
Might even be better than this one
And I know that she's the only one for me
And you know that if I could split in two
The other me
Would stay all night
The other me
Would hold you tight
The other me
Would be the only one for you.
Lyrics submitted by thedanster
The Other Me Lyrics as written by Jackson
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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He's obviously committed to someone but very interested in the person he's singing to. But he won't leave the original love interest. So he wishes he could split in two, because "the other me would be the only one for you." Quite a clever tune, I'd say. And one of my all-time JJ favorites.