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"
There you go in all your beautiful glory
Messing with my head like you always did
I'm thinking things I don't want to say
And I can't breathe
What do I have to tell you girl
So you won't leave
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
Go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Kiss me again, let me pretend
That it's not wrong
Baby, lead me on
I wanna touch your skin, I wanna taste it
I wanna feel that love like we used to make it
I don't care if we go nowhere
You're all I see
One more night with you
Is all I need, yeah
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
Go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Kiss me again, let me pretend
That it's not wrong
Baby, lead me on
But I know what you want
I know what you need
I know when I'm gone
You'll still think of me
You know what I want
You know what I need
I know when you're gone
You won't even think about me
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
So go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Whisper my name, baby no shame
Is it so wrong?
Baby, lead me on
I know what you want
I know what you need
I know when I'm gone
You won't even think about me
I know what you want
I know what you need
Won't you know, you know, know
You won't even think about me
I know what you want
I know what you need
Baby, oh
Baby lead me on
Messing with my head like you always did
I'm thinking things I don't want to say
And I can't breathe
What do I have to tell you girl
So you won't leave
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
Go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Kiss me again, let me pretend
That it's not wrong
Baby, lead me on
I wanna touch your skin, I wanna taste it
I wanna feel that love like we used to make it
I don't care if we go nowhere
You're all I see
One more night with you
Is all I need, yeah
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
Go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Kiss me again, let me pretend
That it's not wrong
Baby, lead me on
But I know what you want
I know what you need
I know when I'm gone
You'll still think of me
You know what I want
You know what I need
I know when you're gone
You won't even think about me
Tell me what I want to hear
I don't care if you're lying baby
I just want to feel you touch me right now
So go ahead and call it love
Tomorrow you can deny it baby
Whisper my name, baby no shame
Is it so wrong?
Baby, lead me on
I know what you want
I know what you need
I know when I'm gone
You won't even think about me
I know what you want
I know what you need
Won't you know, you know, know
You won't even think about me
I know what you want
I know what you need
Baby, oh
Baby lead me on
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Lead Me On Lyrics as written by Christopher Garfield Bentley Ben Glover
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