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"
Yeah, I said too much again
Yeah, I pushed too hard again
And I wanna start, but when
Always lose it in the end
Stupid once again
You wanna be my friend
And I'll push too hard again
Always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
Yo, yo
I keep my guards up
When it comes to the women
Told you that
Ever since the beginning
That's why I stand close
Down to white women
'Cause young girls are crazy
These are my limits
I can't let you go
And you know that
I can't see another man
Trying to blow that
That's critical
Love starts hurting me
Doctor Winslow said I need therapy
Torment, Misery
It's killing me physically
Why murder me legally
A love you can first leave
So I'ma close my eyes
And just pretend
'Cause word on the street's
I'ma lose it in the end
Yeah, I cared too much again
You stand to hard to care
And this must be a sin
Always lose it in the end
"Just chill out" is what you said
"Take a pill and go to bed"
No matter, how or when
I always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
I know what way to go when it
Comes to the ladies
'Cause things ain't changed
Since the early eighties
A few things first
I'm still picking them crazies
You wanna battle a court
Like Kim and Slim Shady
I ain't having that
No, I ain't having that
You just trying to get rich
Like Miramax
Forced my hand
Girl, to let you know
Because you know what starts
It's real unnatural
Yeah, I said too much again
Yeah, I pushed too hard again
And I wanna start, but when
Always lose it in the end
Stupid once again
You wanna be my friend
And I'll push too hard again
Always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
Yeah, I pushed too hard again
And I wanna start, but when
Always lose it in the end
Stupid once again
You wanna be my friend
And I'll push too hard again
Always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
Yo, yo
I keep my guards up
When it comes to the women
Told you that
Ever since the beginning
That's why I stand close
Down to white women
'Cause young girls are crazy
These are my limits
I can't let you go
And you know that
I can't see another man
Trying to blow that
That's critical
Love starts hurting me
Doctor Winslow said I need therapy
Torment, Misery
It's killing me physically
Why murder me legally
A love you can first leave
So I'ma close my eyes
And just pretend
'Cause word on the street's
I'ma lose it in the end
Yeah, I cared too much again
You stand to hard to care
And this must be a sin
Always lose it in the end
"Just chill out" is what you said
"Take a pill and go to bed"
No matter, how or when
I always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
I know what way to go when it
Comes to the ladies
'Cause things ain't changed
Since the early eighties
A few things first
I'm still picking them crazies
You wanna battle a court
Like Kim and Slim Shady
I ain't having that
No, I ain't having that
You just trying to get rich
Like Miramax
Forced my hand
Girl, to let you know
Because you know what starts
It's real unnatural
Yeah, I said too much again
Yeah, I pushed too hard again
And I wanna start, but when
Always lose it in the end
Stupid once again
You wanna be my friend
And I'll push too hard again
Always lose it in the end
I don't know
How I can let you go
How will I let you go
Lyrics submitted by bing_redboy
Lose It (In the End) Lyrics as written by Alex Greenwald Dennis Coles
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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