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"
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone
The b**** hangs up on me
Huh?
Remember that time I blew your mailbox up
I was just kidding about that (kidding about that)
I'm sorry that I hit your dog with my bike
But he's still got three legs, he's gonna be just fine
And baby, baby I ain't too sure that
I know how to change anymore
But
This I know for sure
I just got eyes for you
Even though your friends say: Oh my God, how can she be with him?
Oh my God, leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me
I never meant to drive your car into that tree
I'm still real sorry about that (sorry about that)
And I know I can't get it right
But I would do anything, anything
For my
Baby, baby you ain't too sure that
I know how to change anymore
But
This you know for sure
I just got eyes for you
Even though your friends say: Oh my God, how can she be with him?
Oh my God, leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me, take a fool like me
Take a fool like
Oh my God!
How can she be with him?
Oh my God!
How can she be with him?
Oh my God
Leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone
The b**** hangs up on me
Huh?
Remember that time I blew your mailbox up
I was just kidding about that (kidding about that)
I'm sorry that I hit your dog with my bike
But he's still got three legs, he's gonna be just fine
And baby, baby I ain't too sure that
I know how to change anymore
But
This I know for sure
I just got eyes for you
Even though your friends say: Oh my God, how can she be with him?
Oh my God, leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me
I never meant to drive your car into that tree
I'm still real sorry about that (sorry about that)
And I know I can't get it right
But I would do anything, anything
For my
Baby, baby you ain't too sure that
I know how to change anymore
But
This you know for sure
I just got eyes for you
Even though your friends say: Oh my God, how can she be with him?
Oh my God, leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me, take a fool like me
Take a fool like
Oh my God!
How can she be with him?
Oh my God!
How can she be with him?
Oh my God
Leave his a**!
Your daddy always said you should stay away from
A fool like me, a fool like me
And when your momma sees me callin' on your telephone, she hangs up on me
That b**** hangs up on me
Yeah I know
That I'm a grown a** man
Who still acts like an idiot
But Lord he must have been in a good mood the day
He let a girl like you
Choose to take a fool like me
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Yeah, basically it's the guy thanking his lucky stars that the girl he loves hasn't dumped him yet for all the stupid things he's done, haha. Ohh God, I don't know that I would stay with a guy who ran my car into a tree and ran my dog over, but you know, that's true love y'all xD