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 awoke dancing in a passioned stare
Strangers around us smelt the love in the air
I gasped and you laughed at me
We were making love in the middle of somebody's jealousy
Strange men and even stranger women staring
Suprised to see that we weren't wearing anything at all
Caught off guard in a crazy situation
In love
Performing public consumation
You looked at me and then to them
At first I thought it was all just pretend
Your eyes were seen
But the faces were hidden with souls in search of love that's forbidden
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
It's an Eskimo man with an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
How the hell did we end up like this
Wandering between reality and happiness
But fingers had snapped
It began making sense
There we were
Face to face with our own consequence
We acted fast and with a smile
Then we ran for what seemed a mile
Cold summer air ran fast at our cheeks
As we fumbled our way running from the beach
Headlights cut through our midnight disguise
And announced our bodies to the night
Oh
You bear the cold so well and I bear the lies
It's an Eskimo man with an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
It's an Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover
(We were naked)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
(We were naked and we weren't gonna take it)
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
(And when you're naked you're just waking up)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover
(Oh)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
('Cause we got no clothes)
(No no no no no no no)
(They were stole by the eskimos)
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
Strangers around us smelt the love in the air
I gasped and you laughed at me
We were making love in the middle of somebody's jealousy
Strange men and even stranger women staring
Suprised to see that we weren't wearing anything at all
Caught off guard in a crazy situation
In love
Performing public consumation
You looked at me and then to them
At first I thought it was all just pretend
Your eyes were seen
But the faces were hidden with souls in search of love that's forbidden
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
It's an Eskimo man with an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
How the hell did we end up like this
Wandering between reality and happiness
But fingers had snapped
It began making sense
There we were
Face to face with our own consequence
We acted fast and with a smile
Then we ran for what seemed a mile
Cold summer air ran fast at our cheeks
As we fumbled our way running from the beach
Headlights cut through our midnight disguise
And announced our bodies to the night
Oh
You bear the cold so well and I bear the lies
It's an Eskimo man with an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
It's an Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover
(We were naked)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
(We were naked and we weren't gonna take it)
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
(And when you're naked you're just waking up)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover
(Oh)
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
('Cause we got no clothes)
(No no no no no no no)
(They were stole by the eskimos)
I'll cover you in Eskimo kisses
An Eskimo man and an Eskimo Mrs.
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
I'll cover you
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this is how i heard the first part
we awoke dancing in a passion stare strangers around us smelled the love in the air I gasped and you laughed at me we were making love in the middle of somebody's jealousy strange then and even stranger when they're staring surprised to see that we weren't wearing anything at all caught off guard in this crazy situation in love performing public consummation you looked at me and then looked down at first i thought it was all just pretend Your eyes were seen, but the faces were hidden with Souls in search of love that's forbidden