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 found a skeleton under your bed
How could you sell me out for a kid like that?
I'm doing everything I can to make you jealous
Are you jealous?
Or are you nervous like your freshmen year
Still can't shake this nightmare
Get me out of your hair
The truth, I know
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
I put a monster in your bed
Turned out the lights,
Tucked him in and said goodnight
I bet you thought I'd throw the fight
Oh you just don't know how low I can go,like oh oh
You're making me sick girl, oh oh
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
You'll fall out again
Dont ever wanna see you again
Push all my feelings aside
I'll be alright
Won't let your face keep me up all night
Don't want to start talking again
Cause I'll go crazy again
Oh, I do this to myself,
Do this to myself
I found a skeleton under your bed
How could you sell me out for a kid like that
I'm doing everything I can to make you jealous
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
I heard you're talking shit again (whoa)
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
Whoa, yeah
How could you sell me out for a kid like that?
I'm doing everything I can to make you jealous
Are you jealous?
Or are you nervous like your freshmen year
Still can't shake this nightmare
Get me out of your hair
The truth, I know
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
I put a monster in your bed
Turned out the lights,
Tucked him in and said goodnight
I bet you thought I'd throw the fight
Oh you just don't know how low I can go,like oh oh
You're making me sick girl, oh oh
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
You'll fall out again
Dont ever wanna see you again
Push all my feelings aside
I'll be alright
Won't let your face keep me up all night
Don't want to start talking again
Cause I'll go crazy again
Oh, I do this to myself,
Do this to myself
I found a skeleton under your bed
How could you sell me out for a kid like that
I'm doing everything I can to make you jealous
I heard you're talking shit again
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
I heard you're talking shit again (whoa)
I'm gonna sleep with all your friends
It's too bad the boys you do, get back at you
You can't forget the monsters in your bed
Whoa, yeah
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The Boys You Do (Get Back at You) Lyrics as written by Jessica Bowen Brian Dales
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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