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 don't speak German but I can if you like (ow)
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
I'll take you out tonight do whatever you like
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine, Scheiße be mine
Put on a show tonight do whatever you like
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine, Scheiße be mine
When I am on a mission
I rebuke my condition
If you're a strong female
You don't need permission
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without somebody there
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I don't speak German but I wish I could) without the Scheiße yeah
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Love is objectified
By what men say is right
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine
Bullshit be mine
Blonde high-heeled feminist enlisting femmes for this
Express your woman-kind fight for your right (fight for your right)
When I am on a mission
I rebuke my condition
If you're a strong female
You don't need permission
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without somebody there
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I don't speak German but I wish I could) without the Scheiße yeah
I-I-I-I-I-I don't speak German I-I-I but I can if you like
I-I-I-I-I-I don't speak German I-I-I but I can if you like
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without permission, yeah
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair (uske-be clair)
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
I'll take you out tonight do whatever you like
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine, Scheiße be mine
Put on a show tonight do whatever you like
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine, Scheiße be mine
When I am on a mission
I rebuke my condition
If you're a strong female
You don't need permission
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without somebody there
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I don't speak German but I wish I could) without the Scheiße yeah
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Love is objectified
By what men say is right
Scheiße, Scheiße be mine
Bullshit be mine
Blonde high-heeled feminist enlisting femmes for this
Express your woman-kind fight for your right (fight for your right)
When I am on a mission
I rebuke my condition
If you're a strong female
You don't need permission
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without somebody there
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I don't speak German but I wish I could) without the Scheiße yeah
I-I-I-I-I-I don't speak German I-I-I but I can if you like
I-I-I-I-I-I don't speak German I-I-I but I can if you like
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without permission, yeah
I, I wish that I could dance
On a single prayer
I wish I could be strong
Without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, without the Scheiße yeah
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair
Ich schleiban austa be clair, es kumpent üske monstère
Aus-be aus-can-be flaugen, fräulein uske-be clair (uske-be clair)
Lyrics submitted by beenie_08, edited by JanzenZane
Scheiße Lyrics as written by Stefani Germanotta Nadir Khayat
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I don't think any other artist could get away with writing a song in their own made up version of a widely recognised other language, but Gaga does it and it's just cute, I think mostly because she speaks about her desire to be able to speak german. "I don't speak German but I can if you like" "I don't speak German but I wish I could"
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