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"
Before you start telling me things I don't wanna to hear
Before you pull up a seat let me make it clear
I can buy my own liquor, got it paid for, I'm a go-getter
I'm not a gold digger
I know it's kinda hard, not stepping to the finest thing in the club
See you getting your boss on, bottles of Patron, few bottles of bub
Not saying I ain't feeling you but there's some things that just won't do
So come on over if it's cool
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
And it ain't that easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I'm feeling your confidence, I think it's kinda cute
The swag that make most girls give it up to you
It's hard but I know better
Gotta watch 'cause you're so clever, I just might let ya
I recognize you're built like an athlete, everybody showing you love
White Tee, fly jeans, fresh kicks, see you got just enough thug
You can say I'm feeling you, there's somethings I just won't do
So come on over if it's cool
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
It ain't that easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
Hey baby you can come talk to me
All I want is your company
Ain't no need for you to front for Kesh 'cause I like it, I do
I think you should come see 'bout me
Maybe here is where you need to be
I just want to take it slowly 'cause I like it, I do
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
But I'm not easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
Before you pull up a seat let me make it clear
I can buy my own liquor, got it paid for, I'm a go-getter
I'm not a gold digger
I know it's kinda hard, not stepping to the finest thing in the club
See you getting your boss on, bottles of Patron, few bottles of bub
Not saying I ain't feeling you but there's some things that just won't do
So come on over if it's cool
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
And it ain't that easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I'm feeling your confidence, I think it's kinda cute
The swag that make most girls give it up to you
It's hard but I know better
Gotta watch 'cause you're so clever, I just might let ya
I recognize you're built like an athlete, everybody showing you love
White Tee, fly jeans, fresh kicks, see you got just enough thug
You can say I'm feeling you, there's somethings I just won't do
So come on over if it's cool
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
It ain't that easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
Hey baby you can come talk to me
All I want is your company
Ain't no need for you to front for Kesh 'cause I like it, I do
I think you should come see 'bout me
Maybe here is where you need to be
I just want to take it slowly 'cause I like it, I do
You just know it's gonna take more than one drink to get me home
I know you didn't ask but I thought you should know
But I'm not easy, not that easy to go
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know, know
I thought you should know, know, know
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