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"
We've been together for too long
And we've been through too much
To have the same conversations
You seem to like so much
So you gotta think I'm cheatin'
You don't listen well
I don't wanna talk, girl (no)
Why don't you just tell me what I
What I gotta do, girl, to get through to you
So, I can ease your mind?
It's all about you, girl
If you don't know, then you have got to
[Chorus]
Deal with it (oh); I ain't tellin' you no lies
Girl, deal with it (oh)
Tell me why you roll your eyes
Just deal wit' it (oh)
'Cause you know, ain't nobody but you (oh)
You should know, ain't nobody but you
I don't really know what's with you
And who's been feedin' you lies (lies)
What is with the constant questions? (Hmm)
Girl, you really haven't been actin' right
I don't thrive on attention, and
I won't lead me to stray
How can I make you see
The fact of the bottom is
All that I wanna know is what I...
What I gotta do, girl
To get through to you so
I can ease your mind?
It's all about you, girl
If you don't know, then you have got to
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Hold on, told you more than once
And you really gotta understand, girl
That every time that you wanna front
And you stop to wonder where I am
I wish you would just stop acting this way
I wish you just realize that you push me away (actin' the fool)
Nobody, nobody, nobody, but
Nobody, nobody but you, girl
Nobody, nobody but you, girl
[Chorus x 2]
And we've been through too much
To have the same conversations
You seem to like so much
So you gotta think I'm cheatin'
You don't listen well
I don't wanna talk, girl (no)
Why don't you just tell me what I
What I gotta do, girl, to get through to you
So, I can ease your mind?
It's all about you, girl
If you don't know, then you have got to
[Chorus]
Deal with it (oh); I ain't tellin' you no lies
Girl, deal with it (oh)
Tell me why you roll your eyes
Just deal wit' it (oh)
'Cause you know, ain't nobody but you (oh)
You should know, ain't nobody but you
I don't really know what's with you
And who's been feedin' you lies (lies)
What is with the constant questions? (Hmm)
Girl, you really haven't been actin' right
I don't thrive on attention, and
I won't lead me to stray
How can I make you see
The fact of the bottom is
All that I wanna know is what I...
What I gotta do, girl
To get through to you so
I can ease your mind?
It's all about you, girl
If you don't know, then you have got to
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Hold on, told you more than once
And you really gotta understand, girl
That every time that you wanna front
And you stop to wonder where I am
I wish you would just stop acting this way
I wish you just realize that you push me away (actin' the fool)
Nobody, nobody, nobody, but
Nobody, nobody but you, girl
Nobody, nobody but you, girl
[Chorus x 2]
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