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"
To the left
To the left
To the left
To the left,
Everything you own in the box to the left
In the closet, that's my stuff
Yeah, if I bought it, baby, please don't touch it
And keep talking that mess, thats fine
Could you walk and talk at the same time?
And it's my name thats on that jag
So go move your bags, let me call you a cab
Standing in the front yard, telling me
How I'm such a fool, talking 'bout
How I'll never ever find a man like you
You got me twisted
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute baby
You must not know 'bout me
You must not know 'bout me
I can have another you by tomorrow
So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're
irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up that chick, and see if shes home
Oops I bet you thought, that I didn't know
What did you think
I was putting you out for?
Because you was untrue
Rolling her around in the car that I bought you
Baby, drop them keys
Hurry up, before your taxi leaves
Standing in the front yard, telling me
How I'm such a fool, talking 'bout
How I'll never ever find a man like you
You got me twisted
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute baby
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I can have another you by tomorrow
So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're
irreplaceable
To the left
To the left
To the left,
Everything you own in the box to the left
In the closet, that's my stuff
Yeah, if I bought it, baby, please don't touch it
And keep talking that mess, thats fine
Could you walk and talk at the same time?
And it's my name thats on that jag
So go move your bags, let me call you a cab
Standing in the front yard, telling me
How I'm such a fool, talking 'bout
How I'll never ever find a man like you
You got me twisted
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute baby
You must not know 'bout me
You must not know 'bout me
I can have another you by tomorrow
So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're
irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up that chick, and see if shes home
Oops I bet you thought, that I didn't know
What did you think
I was putting you out for?
Because you was untrue
Rolling her around in the car that I bought you
Baby, drop them keys
Hurry up, before your taxi leaves
Standing in the front yard, telling me
How I'm such a fool, talking 'bout
How I'll never ever find a man like you
You got me twisted
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute baby
You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I can have another you by tomorrow
So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're
irreplaceable
Lyrics submitted by yo mamma!
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tabs anyone?
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i have one, but it sounds like shit
I fixed it.
To the left To the left
To the left To the left,
To the left To the left, Everything you own in the box to the left In the closet, that's my stuff Yes, if I bought it, please don't touch it
And keep talking that mess, thats fine Could you walk and talk at the same time? It's my name on that jag So remove your bags, let me call you a cab
Standing in the front yard, telling me How I'm such a fool, talking 'bout How I'll never find a man like you You got me twisted
You must not know bout' me You must not know bout' me I could have another you in a minute Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute, baby
You must not know 'bout me You must not know 'bout me I could have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone Call up that chick, and see if shes home Oops I bet you thought I didn't know What did you think I was putting you out for? Cause' you was untrue Rolling her around in the car that I bought you Baby, drop them keys Hurry up, before your taxi leaves
Standing in the front yard, telling me I'm such a fool, talking 'bout Tellin' me I'll never ever find a man like you You got me twisted
You must not know bout' me You must not know bout' me I could have another you in a minute Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute, baby
You must not know bout' me You must not know bout' me I can have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a second get to thinkin' you're irreplaceable