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"
That party, that party
Was the worst thing
That has ever happened to me
A black eye, I'm bleeding
But I'm breathing by myself
Those girls, those guys
They all want me
They all want me dead
I should have never
Should have never ever, no
Should have said the things I said to her
But I think she's on to me
She's starting to get up
Well, I think she's looking for me, for me
She's starting to fall
And I said, "Pleased to meet you, baby,"
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had)
And I know now
I'm terribly sorry, man
Is this your girlfriend clinging to my hand?
Oh no, what will become of me
In the backyard of that party?
I think I'm doing rather well on my own
And I know I don't need you
It's impossible to please you
I got it covered with the sofa pulled out
And I'm chillaxing, sleeping
And don't wake up me up tonight
No, don't wake me
Don't wake me up
Especially tonight
No, don't wake me
Don't wake up me up tonight
And I said, "Pleased to meet you, baby,"
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had on me)
We came alone
And we left together
It shut him up to see he won her over
We came alone
And we left together
It shut him up to see who won her over
We came alone
And we left together
Pleased to meet you, baby
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
Pleased to meet you, baby
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince her not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had)
Was the worst thing
That has ever happened to me
A black eye, I'm bleeding
But I'm breathing by myself
Those girls, those guys
They all want me
They all want me dead
I should have never
Should have never ever, no
Should have said the things I said to her
But I think she's on to me
She's starting to get up
Well, I think she's looking for me, for me
She's starting to fall
And I said, "Pleased to meet you, baby,"
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had)
And I know now
I'm terribly sorry, man
Is this your girlfriend clinging to my hand?
Oh no, what will become of me
In the backyard of that party?
I think I'm doing rather well on my own
And I know I don't need you
It's impossible to please you
I got it covered with the sofa pulled out
And I'm chillaxing, sleeping
And don't wake up me up tonight
No, don't wake me
Don't wake me up
Especially tonight
No, don't wake me
Don't wake up me up tonight
And I said, "Pleased to meet you, baby,"
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had on me)
We came alone
And we left together
It shut him up to see he won her over
We came alone
And we left together
It shut him up to see who won her over
We came alone
And we left together
Pleased to meet you, baby
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince him not to do
Pleased to meet you, baby
How do you do, what you do?
And I'll forgive you, maybe
If you convince her not to do
What he came to do
(Black eye and bleeding, but I'm fine)
What he came to do
(A suckerpunch is all he had)
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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