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"
Not a word, from your lips
You just took for granted that I want to skinny dip
A quick hit, that's your game
But I'm not a piece of meat, stimulate my brain
Night is young, so are we
Let's get to know each other better, slow and easily
Take my hand, let's hit the floor
Shake our bodies to the music
Maybe then you'll score
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off (no no no)
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
Just slow down if you want me
A man wants to be approached cool and romantically
I've got needs
Just like you
Give me conversation
Good vibrations through and through
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off (oh no)
To have a good time
Oh no (oh no)
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine (cherry wine)
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
You just took for granted that I want to skinny dip
A quick hit, that's your game
But I'm not a piece of meat, stimulate my brain
Night is young, so are we
Let's get to know each other better, slow and easily
Take my hand, let's hit the floor
Shake our bodies to the music
Maybe then you'll score
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off (no no no)
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
Just slow down if you want me
A man wants to be approached cool and romantically
I've got needs
Just like you
Give me conversation
Good vibrations through and through
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you wanna move so fast
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don't have to take our clothes off (oh no)
To have a good time
Oh no (oh no)
We could dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine (cherry wine)
Uh huh
(Na na na na na na na)
Lyrics submitted by intothegrinder2
We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off Lyrics as written by Preston W. Glass Narada Michael Walden
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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