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"
Ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know that you wanna talk about it but I gotta put it in your mind
I feel like we've been through this story a thousand times
I feel like we've been going around and around in circles
Ooh why, we gotta put this behind us, yeah, yeah
Baby, listen to me
Please don't walk out that door
'Cause if you ever need me
I'd be lost, I'd be going crazy
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
Why is it that every time I looked in your eyes
I see something wrong, insecurity
When all along I was trying make it right
Keep us going strong, and loving you faithfully
Baby, listen to me
Please don't walk out that door
'Cause if you ever need me
I'd be lost, I'd be going crazy
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole, ooh, baby
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
Girl you're messing with a player
And a player will probably play ya
But a player thinks he's sticking with you
Not a streets-create, so much distrust
That I'd probably be ready to break it to you
Now I ain't trippin'
We can kick it in the morning we can make it in the evening
Stroll through the park with the Cali smoke grievin'
Believe it, I wouldn't even leave you for nothin'
That's why I'm man enough to say my feelings I ain't finding
Let's go on the road to the end of the sunshine
I'ma forget about your past, hoping you forgot mine
I'd be focus on my grind, you'd be trying to hold me down
I told you I'd be your boy come on, baby girl, let's ride
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
I know that you wanna talk about it but I gotta put it in your mind
I feel like we've been through this story a thousand times
I feel like we've been going around and around in circles
Ooh why, we gotta put this behind us, yeah, yeah
Baby, listen to me
Please don't walk out that door
'Cause if you ever need me
I'd be lost, I'd be going crazy
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
Why is it that every time I looked in your eyes
I see something wrong, insecurity
When all along I was trying make it right
Keep us going strong, and loving you faithfully
Baby, listen to me
Please don't walk out that door
'Cause if you ever need me
I'd be lost, I'd be going crazy
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole, ooh, baby
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
Girl you're messing with a player
And a player will probably play ya
But a player thinks he's sticking with you
Not a streets-create, so much distrust
That I'd probably be ready to break it to you
Now I ain't trippin'
We can kick it in the morning we can make it in the evening
Stroll through the park with the Cali smoke grievin'
Believe it, I wouldn't even leave you for nothin'
That's why I'm man enough to say my feelings I ain't finding
Let's go on the road to the end of the sunshine
I'ma forget about your past, hoping you forgot mine
I'd be focus on my grind, you'd be trying to hold me down
I told you I'd be your boy come on, baby girl, let's ride
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one who completes me baby
You're the one who makes me whole
Lyrics submitted by xox_pandie_xox
Wanna Be with You Lyrics as written by Francisco Bautista Andy Quinn
Lyrics © JELLYBEAN MUSIC GROUP
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