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 just want you like it was before
But nothing seems to work anymore
I'm open to suggestion, give me some direction
Tell me what you're looking for
You know I been working overtime
So I can change your mind
Look what you put me through, ooh ooh
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X3
I've been trying every trick in the book (trying every trick in the book)
Hoping you'll give me a second look (givin' me a second look)
I've been driven to distraction, still there's no reaction
You still got your phone of the hook
You know I don't wanna waste your time
Baby I can change your mind
If I could just get through, ooh ooh
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X2
Take me back!
You've got something that I can't deny
Come on now sugar give me one more try
Since you said goodbye, I just wanna die
I just wanna die
I just wanna die
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X3
Girl, won't you take me back?
T-t-t-take me back
It's not enough enough
But nothing seems to work anymore
I'm open to suggestion, give me some direction
Tell me what you're looking for
You know I been working overtime
So I can change your mind
Look what you put me through, ooh ooh
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X3
I've been trying every trick in the book (trying every trick in the book)
Hoping you'll give me a second look (givin' me a second look)
I've been driven to distraction, still there's no reaction
You still got your phone of the hook
You know I don't wanna waste your time
Baby I can change your mind
If I could just get through, ooh ooh
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X2
Take me back!
You've got something that I can't deny
Come on now sugar give me one more try
Since you said goodbye, I just wanna die
I just wanna die
I just wanna die
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
It's not enough enough to love someone
When the one you love just wants to cut and run
Tell me what I've got to do for you
T-t-t-take me back X3
Girl, won't you take me back?
T-t-t-take me back
It's not enough enough
Lyrics submitted by dragonfli
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