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"
Are we ready?
Are we ready, ready?
Are we ready?
Are we ready, ready?
Uh huh
My body feels like an inferno
Like I'm in a race and I'm jumping a hurdle
Come closer, we'll pursue it
If you just let go, we can do it
Baby, I'm yours for the taking
Don't you wanna see my body naked?
And I know you like the way I shake it
And I hope that you can take it
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
I love it
Everything you do is so seductive
You got that thing that I want and then some
And I can't even front, so listen
I know what you're missing
Better hurry up, cause time is ticking
Tick tock, tick tock
Come and get me while I'm hot, now
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
Pull up to my bumper
I need a jump, not a chump
Fill me up, I'm running low
Let me drive you crazy
All night cause we got so far to go
Pull up to my bumper
I need a jump, not a chump
Fill me up, I'm running low
Let me drive you crazy
All night cause we got so far to go
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
Are we ready, ready?
Are we ready?
Are we ready, ready?
Uh huh
My body feels like an inferno
Like I'm in a race and I'm jumping a hurdle
Come closer, we'll pursue it
If you just let go, we can do it
Baby, I'm yours for the taking
Don't you wanna see my body naked?
And I know you like the way I shake it
And I hope that you can take it
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
I love it
Everything you do is so seductive
You got that thing that I want and then some
And I can't even front, so listen
I know what you're missing
Better hurry up, cause time is ticking
Tick tock, tick tock
Come and get me while I'm hot, now
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
Pull up to my bumper
I need a jump, not a chump
Fill me up, I'm running low
Let me drive you crazy
All night cause we got so far to go
Pull up to my bumper
I need a jump, not a chump
Fill me up, I'm running low
Let me drive you crazy
All night cause we got so far to go
You're the perfect lover
I'm in love with all the things you do
So seductive when you touch me
I can't get enough of you
You're the best
Baby, you got me obsessed
And I can't catch my breath
Baby, I must confess you got me (ah, ah)
When you come around (ah, ah)
Got me so damn high, I can't come down
Every time you touch me there (ah, ah)
You make me feel so hot
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"tic tac tic tac come and get me while i'm hot "my new ringtone!