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"
Better pull up a chair, sit back
Lemme tell you how it all comes down
Oh, yeah
You gotta treat her like a lady
Talk her like a baby
Stimulate her inside out
Oh, yes
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And don't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
That's what I say
A little romance, won't hurt you
Gotta tell her when she's lookin' fine
Whoa, yeah
Gotta do a little more
Than a push of the door
Do it for her all the time
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And don't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
That's what I say
It's time you live your dream
Tonight
Better get used to the fact she makes it alright
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And can't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
You get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And can't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
You get her, kiss by kiss
Lemme tell you how it all comes down
Oh, yeah
You gotta treat her like a lady
Talk her like a baby
Stimulate her inside out
Oh, yes
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And don't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
That's what I say
A little romance, won't hurt you
Gotta tell her when she's lookin' fine
Whoa, yeah
Gotta do a little more
Than a push of the door
Do it for her all the time
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And don't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
That's what I say
It's time you live your dream
Tonight
Better get used to the fact she makes it alright
It's not a question
Of how many times you try
If you wanna get the honey
You gotta do it right
And you get her, you get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And can't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
You get her, kiss by kiss
Give her every little thing she wants
And can't resist
You'll have it made
(Made)
Have it made
(In the shade)
But it's gonna be a little bit of work
You get her, kiss by kiss
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