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 gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
Let's get into trouble, lots of trouble
Rock star, you know how to rock hard
Hello midnight lover, lover
Hold that lady tighter
Shoot that bullet through her
My heart beats just like a cherry soda
In the summer
Go, go, go don't be difficult about it
Get off it
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Let's get down to business, Funny Business
In the middle of the night when
things start to get feisty
Don't forget your money, little honey
There are killers and blonde bunnies
They dance for money
My heart beats just like a cherry soda
In the summer
Go, go, go don't be difficult about it
Get off it
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Everyone is famous
Running where they lay and they sleep??
We dance for the garage team
In between the spaces, happiness can trace us down
We're not gonna leave this town
In between the spaces, happiness can trace us down
We're not gonna leave this town
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
So everybody you need to stop snoring
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
Let's get into trouble, lots of trouble
Rock star, you know how to rock hard
Hello midnight lover, lover
Hold that lady tighter
Shoot that bullet through her
My heart beats just like a cherry soda
In the summer
Go, go, go don't be difficult about it
Get off it
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Let's get down to business, Funny Business
In the middle of the night when
things start to get feisty
Don't forget your money, little honey
There are killers and blonde bunnies
They dance for money
My heart beats just like a cherry soda
In the summer
Go, go, go don't be difficult about it
Get off it
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Everyone is famous
Running where they lay and they sleep??
We dance for the garage team
In between the spaces, happiness can trace us down
We're not gonna leave this town
In between the spaces, happiness can trace us down
We're not gonna leave this town
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
We gonna grab the mics and get 'em off the walls
So everybody you need to stop snoring
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Throw that boy)
Against the wall, Retro Physical
Off the wall (Getcho ass)
Off the wall (Work that boy)
So sexual, Retro Physical
Lyrics submitted by Kuma7
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