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"
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows that baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, as she makes love just like a woman
Oh, and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed
'Til she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamines and her pearls
She takes
Just like a woman, yes, she does
And she makes love just like a woman
Yes she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
But it was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse is this pain in here
I can't stay in here, oh baby, ain't it clear that
I just can't fit
I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't you let on that you knew me
When I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
And you make love just like a woman
And then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
She breaks just like a little girl
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows that baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, as she makes love just like a woman
Oh, and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed
'Til she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamines and her pearls
She takes
Just like a woman, yes, she does
And she makes love just like a woman
Yes she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
But it was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse is this pain in here
I can't stay in here, oh baby, ain't it clear that
I just can't fit
I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't you let on that you knew me
When I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
And you make love just like a woman
And then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
She breaks just like a little girl
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