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"
When you touch me
When you touch me
Good God
When you touch me
Lookie here
I can't stand it
Can't stand it
I can't stand your love
I can't stand your love
You don't love nobody else
Get back; I can't stand myself
Can't stand your love
Good God
Early in the morning
Can't get it right
Had a little time
With my baby last night
Early in the morning
Gotta do the walk
My baby, just let me talk
When you touch me, good God
When you touch me, all right
Come on, baby, hold my hand
Just want you to know
I'm a soul man
Can't stand it
Can't stand it
Can't stand it; lookie here
Can't stand it, baby
Can't stand it
Can't stand your love
Can't stand it
I can't stand your love
Lookie here, baby
What you want me to do?
Baby, what you want me to do?
You made me, made me love you
You give me fever; my body's wet
You give me fever, break out
In a cold sweat
Baby, good God
Baby, lookie here
Sometimes I want you
Sometime I call
Sometimes I ring so hard
Come on, good God
Baby, lookie here
Can't stand your love
Can't stand your love
Can't try your love
Can't stand your love
I can't stand it
I can't stand it, good God
Can't stand it, all right
I can't stand it, all right
Bass, lookie here
Bass, Tim
Help me out, Tim
Show me how you work
A little bit, Tim
Good God, Good God
All right, can't stand it
Wait a minute, Tim
Let me get this whole thing
Together over here
Can't stand it
When you touch me
Good God
When you touch me
Lookie here
I can't stand it
Can't stand it
I can't stand your love
I can't stand your love
You don't love nobody else
Get back; I can't stand myself
Can't stand your love
Good God
Early in the morning
Can't get it right
Had a little time
With my baby last night
Early in the morning
Gotta do the walk
My baby, just let me talk
When you touch me, good God
When you touch me, all right
Come on, baby, hold my hand
Just want you to know
I'm a soul man
Can't stand it
Can't stand it
Can't stand it; lookie here
Can't stand it, baby
Can't stand it
Can't stand your love
Can't stand it
I can't stand your love
Lookie here, baby
What you want me to do?
Baby, what you want me to do?
You made me, made me love you
You give me fever; my body's wet
You give me fever, break out
In a cold sweat
Baby, good God
Baby, lookie here
Sometimes I want you
Sometime I call
Sometimes I ring so hard
Come on, good God
Baby, lookie here
Can't stand your love
Can't stand your love
Can't try your love
Can't stand your love
I can't stand it
I can't stand it, good God
Can't stand it, all right
I can't stand it, all right
Bass, lookie here
Bass, Tim
Help me out, Tim
Show me how you work
A little bit, Tim
Good God, Good God
All right, can't stand it
Wait a minute, Tim
Let me get this whole thing
Together over here
Can't stand it
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