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"
I fall to pieces when I hear your name
Well my concentration somehow isn't the same
I think about you from the moment I rise
I see visions of you when I close my eyes
No baby I
I can't see living my life without you next to me
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
And I can't get you outta my mind
Sometimes I wish that we could run away
So we could be together every night and day
I'd love to spend my whole life through
On a tropical island all alone with you
Oh we were meant to be in each others arms for eternity
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
You know that I will love you forever
Wherever you are no matter how far
I'll hold you close inside my heart
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
Oh girl, oh oh girl
(can't get you outta my mind)
Oh girl,
I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
I can't get you outta my mind
I think about you all of the time
(Can't get you outta my mind)
I can't get you outta my mind
(oh girl)
Hey girl I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
Oh girl, oh oh girl
Well my concentration somehow isn't the same
I think about you from the moment I rise
I see visions of you when I close my eyes
No baby I
I can't see living my life without you next to me
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
And I can't get you outta my mind
Sometimes I wish that we could run away
So we could be together every night and day
I'd love to spend my whole life through
On a tropical island all alone with you
Oh we were meant to be in each others arms for eternity
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
You know that I will love you forever
Wherever you are no matter how far
I'll hold you close inside my heart
Oh girl, I can't get you outta my mind
Can't get you outta my mind
Hey girl, I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
Oh girl, oh oh girl
(can't get you outta my mind)
Oh girl,
I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
I can't get you outta my mind
I think about you all of the time
(Can't get you outta my mind)
I can't get you outta my mind
(oh girl)
Hey girl I think about you all of the time
I can't get you outta my mind
Oh girl, oh oh girl
Lyrics submitted by mickolayVS
Can't Get You Outta My Mind Lyrics as written by Tommy Page L. Russell Brown
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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