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"
Listen, listen
Come on
You read my eyes
My vibes
My body's pace
Lookin' my way and I'm lookin' your way
So heres the thing that I need
I'll make it clear
Now heres your chance
But first understand me
I ain't down for relationships
I'm not like all them other chicks
I just want it, when I want it
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so
Uh, uh -- when I say so
You're feeling me
My jeans
My baby tee
You want it now
But just chill
Slow it down
Ah
Think you got game
And you know
How to play with me
But who told you
That this will be easy
I might be down for relationships
Gotta do me right to make me wanna flip
I just want it, when i want it
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so (When I say so)
(Rapping)
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you (ooo)
You'll get some, When I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go (slow, slow)
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, (You'll get some) When I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts (Nothin' starts) till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you (baby)
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so
You'll get some when I say so
Come on
You read my eyes
My vibes
My body's pace
Lookin' my way and I'm lookin' your way
So heres the thing that I need
I'll make it clear
Now heres your chance
But first understand me
I ain't down for relationships
I'm not like all them other chicks
I just want it, when I want it
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so
Uh, uh -- when I say so
You're feeling me
My jeans
My baby tee
You want it now
But just chill
Slow it down
Ah
Think you got game
And you know
How to play with me
But who told you
That this will be easy
I might be down for relationships
Gotta do me right to make me wanna flip
I just want it, when i want it
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so (When I say so)
(Rapping)
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
You'll get some when I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you (ooo)
You'll get some, When I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts till I say go (slow, slow)
I don't really wanna tease you
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, (You'll get some) When I say so
Nothin' serious goin'
Ain't no reason to rush in
Nothing starts (Nothin' starts) till I say go
I don't really wanna tease you (baby)
I don't wanna mislead you
You'll get some, When I say so
You'll get some when I say so
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