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"
It's your uneasy mind
That's been making you blind
I won't lie to you
You've got trouble inside
Baby, I've nothing to hide
I've been good to you
All the way from New York City
Calling me constantly
He's asking if I'm sitting pretty
Waiting patiently
Darling, I would not forsake thee
I'm telling you honestly, yeah, yeah
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
Time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
How can you judge if I don't miss you enough?
Any fool can see
If you can't trust yourself, can't trust nobody else
Did you lie to me? Yeah, did you lie to me?
Even when we are together
Still the jealousy
You know, I just wanna dance forever
And you wanna take that from me
Suppose you really think you're clever
Stealing my liberty, yeah, yeah
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
I get a minute to think about
Looking into you
I need to know when you're going out
And all the things you do
You may not be guilty by default
And you have the nerve to question me
When it's you who could get caught
What do you think I'm gonna find
When I'm checkin' up on you?
Maybe you've got something to hide
Though I think I always knew
What do you think I'm gonna find
When I'm checkin' up on you?
Maybe you've got something to hide
Though I think I always knew
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's so strange kind of loving
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
I can't explain your suspicions
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
(I think it's you)
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
(Issues, you, issues)
(Think it's you)
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
(I think it's you)
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's a strange kind of loving, yeah
That's been making you blind
I won't lie to you
You've got trouble inside
Baby, I've nothing to hide
I've been good to you
All the way from New York City
Calling me constantly
He's asking if I'm sitting pretty
Waiting patiently
Darling, I would not forsake thee
I'm telling you honestly, yeah, yeah
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
Time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
How can you judge if I don't miss you enough?
Any fool can see
If you can't trust yourself, can't trust nobody else
Did you lie to me? Yeah, did you lie to me?
Even when we are together
Still the jealousy
You know, I just wanna dance forever
And you wanna take that from me
Suppose you really think you're clever
Stealing my liberty, yeah, yeah
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
I get a minute to think about
Looking into you
I need to know when you're going out
And all the things you do
You may not be guilty by default
And you have the nerve to question me
When it's you who could get caught
What do you think I'm gonna find
When I'm checkin' up on you?
Maybe you've got something to hide
Though I think I always knew
What do you think I'm gonna find
When I'm checkin' up on you?
Maybe you've got something to hide
Though I think I always knew
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's so strange kind of loving
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's time to set me free
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
I can't explain your suspicions
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
(I think it's you)
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
(Issues, you, issues)
(Think it's you)
What do you think you're gonna find
Checkin' up on me?
(I think it's you)
Baby, you've got a trouble mind
It's a strange kind of loving, yeah
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i love this song. it's great!