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"
V 1
Baby I was wrong
I misjudged you
And baby I was wrong to not trust you
And baby I was wrong but I won't be wrong again
Listen baby
And baby I was wrong when I left you
And maybe I'd be used up without you
Baby I'll be damned if I don't let you in my life again
Chorus
Its you, its me
But hold up, who's she
What was I thinking
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
v 2
What could I have done not to hurt you
And what could I have done to not push you away
Tell me what I've done and I won't do it again oh babe
Just tell me what I did to deserve this
And tell me why you gave someone else my kiss
And maybe I won't die if you're back in my life again
Chorus
You, its me
But hold up, who's she
What was I thinking (damn)
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
Bridge
I hate the fact that I think about you
I hate that I can't sleep without you
I just can't get over not making love to you
I never thought that we'd end up like this
And heaven knows that my heart just can't take . . .
Damn for sure . . .I know right now . . .
Chorus
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
Baby I was wrong
I misjudged you
And baby I was wrong to not trust you
And baby I was wrong but I won't be wrong again
Listen baby
And baby I was wrong when I left you
And maybe I'd be used up without you
Baby I'll be damned if I don't let you in my life again
Chorus
Its you, its me
But hold up, who's she
What was I thinking
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
v 2
What could I have done not to hurt you
And what could I have done to not push you away
Tell me what I've done and I won't do it again oh babe
Just tell me what I did to deserve this
And tell me why you gave someone else my kiss
And maybe I won't die if you're back in my life again
Chorus
You, its me
But hold up, who's she
What was I thinking (damn)
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
Bridge
I hate the fact that I think about you
I hate that I can't sleep without you
I just can't get over not making love to you
I never thought that we'd end up like this
And heaven knows that my heart just can't take . . .
Damn for sure . . .I know right now . . .
Chorus
All I know right now is that I hate you
For what you put me through
With all of my heart I hate that girl you're with too
I hate you and everything about you
I won't apologize, you need to recognize
With all of my heart I hate that I love you
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