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"
You're such a bad girl
Everyone talks about
The things you do, you're just no good
You're just a bad girl
Shame how you walk around
As if you're so misunderstood
And though I try try try
To get you out of my mind
You just find another way back in way back in
And it's a crime crime crime
How you treat me like this
But still you end up underneath my skin
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Ooooh, why you look so down, girl?
Told you I wanted you
Did the things you asked me to.
Why you look so down, girl?
Now you got feelings, right?
Usually you're just so cruel just so cruel
And though I try try try
To keep my cool every time
It's such a struggle not to lose my head lose my head
And it's a crime crime crime
How you speaking to me
But still you end up back inside my bed
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Everyone talks about
The things you do, you're just no good
You're just a bad girl
Shame how you walk around
As if you're so misunderstood
And though I try try try
To get you out of my mind
You just find another way back in way back in
And it's a crime crime crime
How you treat me like this
But still you end up underneath my skin
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Ooooh, why you look so down, girl?
Told you I wanted you
Did the things you asked me to.
Why you look so down, girl?
Now you got feelings, right?
Usually you're just so cruel just so cruel
And though I try try try
To keep my cool every time
It's such a struggle not to lose my head lose my head
And it's a crime crime crime
How you speaking to me
But still you end up back inside my bed
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Gotta get this right tonight
Oh, gotta get you closer
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Take me down
A little bit harder now
Down to the dance floor
A little bit harder now
Love me like you mean it
A little bit harder now
Love me up and down
A little bit harder now
Lyrics submitted by horrorcunt
A Little Bit Harder Now Lyrics as written by Justin Warfield Adam Bravin
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I like this song, it's hot :)