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"
Quarter to three
At the DMV
That's when I saw her
She didn't see me
Behind window B
Explaining patiently
How she needs to see
Six forms of ID
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Quarter to four
The line's still out the door
I can see in her eyes
She's heard it all before
She's looking all right
Despite the bright fluorescent lights
And I wonder what she's like
When she gets home at night
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
It occurs to me
Suddenly
She's been here for an eternity
The hours pass, the days go by
But has anybody
Really tried
To cross that line
To get inside?
A little more time
And now the girl is mine
I hit her with
My very best pick up line
She puts down my file
Stares at me awhile
And I swear I see her
Crack a little smile
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
At the DMV
That's when I saw her
She didn't see me
Behind window B
Explaining patiently
How she needs to see
Six forms of ID
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Quarter to four
The line's still out the door
I can see in her eyes
She's heard it all before
She's looking all right
Despite the bright fluorescent lights
And I wonder what she's like
When she gets home at night
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
It occurs to me
Suddenly
She's been here for an eternity
The hours pass, the days go by
But has anybody
Really tried
To cross that line
To get inside?
A little more time
And now the girl is mine
I hit her with
My very best pick up line
She puts down my file
Stares at me awhile
And I swear I see her
Crack a little smile
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Oh tell me now
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who can you trust with your love these days
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
Yolanda Hayes
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