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'm a girl, and by me that's only great
I am proud that my silhouette is curvy
That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait
With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy
I adore being dressed in something frilly
When my date comes to get me at my place
Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy
Like a filly who is ready for the race
When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curl
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a girl
When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth, but pearl
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl
I flip when a fellow sends me flowers
I drool over dresses made of lace
I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face
I'm strictly a female, female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me
When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl
It goes to my head like brandy
I enjoy being a girl
When someone with eyes that smoulder
Says he loves ev'ry silken curl
That falls on my iv'ry shoulder
I enjoy being a girl
When I hear the compliment'ry whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea
I turn and I glower and I bristle
But I am happy to know the whistle's meant for me
I'm strictly a female, female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me
I am proud that my silhouette is curvy
That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait
With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy
I adore being dressed in something frilly
When my date comes to get me at my place
Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy
Like a filly who is ready for the race
When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curl
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a girl
When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth, but pearl
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl
I flip when a fellow sends me flowers
I drool over dresses made of lace
I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face
I'm strictly a female, female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me
When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl
It goes to my head like brandy
I enjoy being a girl
When someone with eyes that smoulder
Says he loves ev'ry silken curl
That falls on my iv'ry shoulder
I enjoy being a girl
When I hear the compliment'ry whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea
I turn and I glower and I bristle
But I am happy to know the whistle's meant for me
I'm strictly a female, female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me
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I Enjoy Being a Girl Lyrics as written by Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein Ii
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