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"
This young girl, she's so cute
Every time I see her, wear a fresh pair of shoes
'Cause this young girl, she's such a killer
Can't wait till I have it, I'm a spend half a milla
I can see us together on top
We livin' like we hit the jackpot
Cha-ching, like money in the bank
You should be with me
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make me do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' fly for ya all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on the radio, radio
You, you, you, you, you, you got this young boy, racking his brains
Trying to make you mine, but I don't got a ring
You got this young boy, going insane
Tell me that you're single and you're waiting for me
I can see us together on top
We livin' like we hit the jackpot
Cha-ching, like money in the bank
You should be with me
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' proud for you all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on my radio, radio
Singing to this song all day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, singing to this song
All day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, yeah
Stopped me in my track
I have to know your name, know your name
(Nik nak patty gotta find your swag,
You and me together is a match)
Tell me baby why you making me wait all day, all day
(Nik nak patty gotta find your swag,
You and me together girl we got it in the bag)
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' proud for you all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on my radio, radio
Singing to this song all day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, singing to this song
All day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, yeah
Every time I see her, wear a fresh pair of shoes
'Cause this young girl, she's such a killer
Can't wait till I have it, I'm a spend half a milla
I can see us together on top
We livin' like we hit the jackpot
Cha-ching, like money in the bank
You should be with me
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make me do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' fly for ya all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on the radio, radio
You, you, you, you, you, you got this young boy, racking his brains
Trying to make you mine, but I don't got a ring
You got this young boy, going insane
Tell me that you're single and you're waiting for me
I can see us together on top
We livin' like we hit the jackpot
Cha-ching, like money in the bank
You should be with me
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' proud for you all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on my radio, radio
Singing to this song all day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, singing to this song
All day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, yeah
Stopped me in my track
I have to know your name, know your name
(Nik nak patty gotta find your swag,
You and me together is a match)
Tell me baby why you making me wait all day, all day
(Nik nak patty gotta find your swag,
You and me together girl we got it in the bag)
You're like my favorite song
On the radio, radio, radio, radio
I could listen to you all day
You're like a music video, video vi-vi-video
I could look at you all day
You make do my two-step all day
You keep me lookin' proud for you all day
So you should be my girlfriend all day
Well, like a hit on my radio, radio
Singing to this song all day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, singing to this song
All day-ay-yay-yay,-yay-yay-yay, yeah
Day-ay-yay-yay, yeah
Lyrics submitted by smartykat37
All Day Lyrics as written by Edwin Serrano Cody Simpson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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