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"
Turn my mic lever up
Check
There you go
Danger
Clutch
My heart got broken
And my chest been hurtin'
What I need is a personal prescriptional killer (painkiller)
Can't sleep even make it out of bed
Take my temperature
Mista put ya hand
Across my head you got me hot for ya
You give me relievee
It must have been your vitamin see
Doctors orders, one glass of water
One dose of you, and call me in the mornin'
[Chorus]
Doctor, doctor hurry quick
Fix me, fix me I'mma love sick
Diagnose me red roses
And time not to notice, all of those things I want
Help me, help me say you will
Be the pill, for my ills
See I'm so sick make it better better baby
Say you will ah please baby be my painkiller
See I'm so sick make it better better baby
Say you will ah please baby be my painkiller
I need the best I-x no side affects
Hit the next pharmacy see if they got some left
Diagnoses with a case of heartburn
Doctor will you ever get me when you gonna
Learn I know I'm hot-headed its so good to me
But you got the medicine I need
Doctors order, one glass of water
One dose of you, and call me in the mornin'
[Chorus]
I got, I got, I got
(I got this pain in my chest)
I can't I can't I can't
(Would you look at me I'ma mess)
You got it, you got it, you got it
(Ohhh you got it)
To be, to be, to be
(Ohh you affected me)
I can't get you off my mind (no I can't get you off my mind)
I can't get you off my mind
I can't get you off my mind (i can't get you off my mind)
Ooh, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
Ooh, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
(Doctor doctor help me baby)
[Chorus]
I need the best I-x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
I need the best -x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
I need the best I-x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
Painkiller
Check
There you go
Danger
Clutch
My heart got broken
And my chest been hurtin'
What I need is a personal prescriptional killer (painkiller)
Can't sleep even make it out of bed
Take my temperature
Mista put ya hand
Across my head you got me hot for ya
You give me relievee
It must have been your vitamin see
Doctors orders, one glass of water
One dose of you, and call me in the mornin'
[Chorus]
Doctor, doctor hurry quick
Fix me, fix me I'mma love sick
Diagnose me red roses
And time not to notice, all of those things I want
Help me, help me say you will
Be the pill, for my ills
See I'm so sick make it better better baby
Say you will ah please baby be my painkiller
See I'm so sick make it better better baby
Say you will ah please baby be my painkiller
I need the best I-x no side affects
Hit the next pharmacy see if they got some left
Diagnoses with a case of heartburn
Doctor will you ever get me when you gonna
Learn I know I'm hot-headed its so good to me
But you got the medicine I need
Doctors order, one glass of water
One dose of you, and call me in the mornin'
[Chorus]
I got, I got, I got
(I got this pain in my chest)
I can't I can't I can't
(Would you look at me I'ma mess)
You got it, you got it, you got it
(Ohhh you got it)
To be, to be, to be
(Ohh you affected me)
I can't get you off my mind (no I can't get you off my mind)
I can't get you off my mind
I can't get you off my mind (i can't get you off my mind)
Ooh, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
Ooh, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
(Doctor doctor help me baby)
[Chorus]
I need the best I-x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
I need the best -x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
I need the best I-x
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
Huh huh huh huh huh huh
Painkiller
Lyrics submitted by BasedDiosa
Painkiller Lyrics as written by Ezekiel Lewis Nate Hills
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Walt Disney Music Company, Peermusic Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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