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"
Let's go
Don't want you for a weekend
Don't want you for a night
I'm only interested if I can have you for life, yeah
I know I sound serious
Well, baby, I am
You're a fine piece of real estate and I'm gonna get me some land
Ohh-oh (oh)
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha if it takes all night
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet by the time I say go you'll never say no
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
See I've already planned it
This is how its gonna be
I'm gonna love you and you're gonna fall in love with me
Ohh-oh
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha if it takes all night
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet by the time I say go you'll never say no
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
Oh
I'm gonna get you, baby
I'm gonna knock on wood
I'm gonna get you soon now, honey
I'm gonna make it good, whoa
Yea-yea-yea-yeah, come on, Nick
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry about that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha)
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry about that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
Oh
Don't want you for a weekend
Don't want you for a night
I'm only interested if I can have you for life, yeah
I know I sound serious
Well, baby, I am
You're a fine piece of real estate and I'm gonna get me some land
Ohh-oh (oh)
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha if it takes all night
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet by the time I say go you'll never say no
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
See I've already planned it
This is how its gonna be
I'm gonna love you and you're gonna fall in love with me
Ohh-oh
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha if it takes all night
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet by the time I say go you'll never say no
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
Oh
I'm gonna get you, baby
I'm gonna knock on wood
I'm gonna get you soon now, honey
I'm gonna make it good, whoa
Yea-yea-yea-yeah, come on, Nick
Don't try to rush, honey
Love can be fun
There's no need to be alone, when you find that someone
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry about that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha)
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha) I'm gonna getcha don't you worry about that
(Yeah, you can betcha) you can bet your bottom dollar in time, you're gonna be mine
(I'm gonna getcha) just like I should, I'll getcha good
Oh
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I'm Gonna Getcha Good Lyrics as written by Shania Twain Robert John Lange
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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but really. they should stick to their own shiz.
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Haha funny story. See I liked this song when I was little and when I was at the concert, I forgot the line was "you're a fine piece of real estate and I'm gonna get me some land" and I definately thought he was saying Something then "And I'm gonna get me some man". I was like Joeseph has a seeeeecret bahaha
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