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"
(you cant break me down)
(oohhh you cant break me down)
look at me look at you
what you gon do?
ya showin out I'm quiet now
waitin on you
cause you wanna be the boss wit
the girls all on you
so I wont stay Im out ya way
ey playboy gon and get it get it
cause ya tryin me (tryin me tryin me)
ya tryna see if you gon get the best of me
but I wont let you mess wit me (nahh)
cause ya tryin and tryin tryin tryin to keep
tryna keep me at the bottom
but its gon be a problem
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you can't break me down
its ova now dont turn around
I'm gon let it be (be)
no beggin no pleadin and no more one more
chance speech
I will respect your wishes ain't gonna try
to fix this its ova Im good oh boy im not
in ya life
cause ya tryin me (tryin me tryin me)
ya tryna see if you gon get the best of me
but I wont let you mess wit me (nahh)
cause ya tryin and tryin tryin tryin to keep
tryna keep me at the bottom
but its gon be a problem
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I done been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
you can't break me
If you had your way I would be
alone in this world but even through
your best you cant beat me
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
you can't break me down
(oohhh you cant break me down)
look at me look at you
what you gon do?
ya showin out I'm quiet now
waitin on you
cause you wanna be the boss wit
the girls all on you
so I wont stay Im out ya way
ey playboy gon and get it get it
cause ya tryin me (tryin me tryin me)
ya tryna see if you gon get the best of me
but I wont let you mess wit me (nahh)
cause ya tryin and tryin tryin tryin to keep
tryna keep me at the bottom
but its gon be a problem
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you can't break me down
its ova now dont turn around
I'm gon let it be (be)
no beggin no pleadin and no more one more
chance speech
I will respect your wishes ain't gonna try
to fix this its ova Im good oh boy im not
in ya life
cause ya tryin me (tryin me tryin me)
ya tryna see if you gon get the best of me
but I wont let you mess wit me (nahh)
cause ya tryin and tryin tryin tryin to keep
tryna keep me at the bottom
but its gon be a problem
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I done been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
you can't break me
If you had your way I would be
alone in this world but even through
your best you cant beat me
(cause i......)
I done been through the fire
I climbed every mountain
so you can't break me down
I been through the storm now
My strength is reborn now so you
can't break me down (me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
so you cant break me down(me down)
me down(me down)me down(me down)
you can't break me down
Lyrics submitted by eyeluuvmuzick
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