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"
She pops into the bathroom
Just after a shower and
She plays with my makeup and creams
"Heap's trying to look like me"
And goes through the motions posing this way and that
Holding it in
If it makes you feel better then knock yourself out
Say hi there to my bad body double
This is my bad body double trouble
Oh no my bad body double mm hm
I got bad body double trouble oh.
She's trouble
She's trouble
She's trouble alright.
Yeah yeah
Sometimes I just want to lose her
Shake her at a bar or gym for five minutes
It feels so good to be back in my own self again
Can get quite confusing.
We look very similar except she's got some grays and
A little extra weight on the side
Dimply thighs I hear that stuff's a bitch to get rid off.
We're having quite an intimate personal moment (not now)
Could you maybe come at a slightly less awful time? (not now)
She can see I've got someone quite nice here with me
Can't we just be left alone
I guess that's a no then
Seeing as how you're still here
Seeing as how you're still here
It's not me no
It's my bad body double
I've got bad body double trouble
Oh no my bad body double mm hm
I've got bad body double trouble agh.
Bad body double mm hm.
I've got bad body double trouble
Oh dear my bad body double mm hm
I got bad body double trouble.
She's trouble
She's trouble
She's trouble alright.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's trouble
She's trouble.
She's trouble alright.
Yeah, yeah right there.
Can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her
Everywhere I go everywhere I go go
Can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her
Everywhere I go everywhere I go go
Say hi there
To my bad body double
My bad bad bad body double.
She's trouble
I can't shake her.
I hate her I hate her I hate her I hate her I hate her.
She's everywhere I go
I've gotta get rid
Of you once and for all
Just after a shower and
She plays with my makeup and creams
"Heap's trying to look like me"
And goes through the motions posing this way and that
Holding it in
If it makes you feel better then knock yourself out
Say hi there to my bad body double
This is my bad body double trouble
Oh no my bad body double mm hm
I got bad body double trouble oh.
She's trouble
She's trouble
She's trouble alright.
Yeah yeah
Sometimes I just want to lose her
Shake her at a bar or gym for five minutes
It feels so good to be back in my own self again
Can get quite confusing.
We look very similar except she's got some grays and
A little extra weight on the side
Dimply thighs I hear that stuff's a bitch to get rid off.
We're having quite an intimate personal moment (not now)
Could you maybe come at a slightly less awful time? (not now)
She can see I've got someone quite nice here with me
Can't we just be left alone
I guess that's a no then
Seeing as how you're still here
Seeing as how you're still here
It's not me no
It's my bad body double
I've got bad body double trouble
Oh no my bad body double mm hm
I've got bad body double trouble agh.
Bad body double mm hm.
I've got bad body double trouble
Oh dear my bad body double mm hm
I got bad body double trouble.
She's trouble
She's trouble
She's trouble alright.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's trouble
She's trouble.
She's trouble alright.
Yeah, yeah right there.
Can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her
Everywhere I go everywhere I go go
Can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her can't shake her
Everywhere I go everywhere I go go
Say hi there
To my bad body double
My bad bad bad body double.
She's trouble
I can't shake her.
I hate her I hate her I hate her I hate her I hate her.
She's everywhere I go
I've gotta get rid
Of you once and for all
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