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"
[Phone dialing]
[Phone ringing]
DJ: Hello listeners, this is your favorite fox chillin',
On the psychological request line, hello?
Brandy: Hello, I'm Brandy and I would like to make a request out to Kevin,
By Immature, "Is It Love This Time"
DJ: Ok, Brandy we'll get that out to Kevin
Immature, Is It Love This Time, yo kick it
[Romeo]
You know what
You a fine, young sexy lady
And I'm a fine, young fella, too
You know we can really get close together
You know, they always say we're too young
And I personally don't believe that
Listen right here
[Batman]
People say, I'm not old enough
You're too young, you cannot fall in love
You can't understand the way, I feel, oh baby
I hope, it's yearning for you
I can't get get you off my mind, my mind
If it's that love that I feel (Love that I feel)
It feels so real (Feels so real)
What am I supposed to do, yeah hey yeah
[Chorus]
Tell me
Is it love this time, oh
Tell me
Is it love this time, oh
I'd do anything that you want me to
[Romeo]
Listen
[Batman]
Listen, my poor heart is doing crazy things
This is to, to the joy you bring
Try to understand the way, I feel girl, who
Little baby, little little baby
I know, it's silly to you
And I can't get get you off my mind
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no
And if it's that love that I fee
And I know that it is real
What am I, what am I, supposed to do
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
[Piano Interlude]
Don't you go no where
Don't you ever leave me, don't you ever leave me, ooh
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
[Phone ringing]
DJ: Hello listeners, this is your favorite fox chillin',
On the psychological request line, hello?
Brandy: Hello, I'm Brandy and I would like to make a request out to Kevin,
By Immature, "Is It Love This Time"
DJ: Ok, Brandy we'll get that out to Kevin
Immature, Is It Love This Time, yo kick it
[Romeo]
You know what
You a fine, young sexy lady
And I'm a fine, young fella, too
You know we can really get close together
You know, they always say we're too young
And I personally don't believe that
Listen right here
[Batman]
People say, I'm not old enough
You're too young, you cannot fall in love
You can't understand the way, I feel, oh baby
I hope, it's yearning for you
I can't get get you off my mind, my mind
If it's that love that I feel (Love that I feel)
It feels so real (Feels so real)
What am I supposed to do, yeah hey yeah
[Chorus]
Tell me
Is it love this time, oh
Tell me
Is it love this time, oh
I'd do anything that you want me to
[Romeo]
Listen
[Batman]
Listen, my poor heart is doing crazy things
This is to, to the joy you bring
Try to understand the way, I feel girl, who
Little baby, little little baby
I know, it's silly to you
And I can't get get you off my mind
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no
And if it's that love that I fee
And I know that it is real
What am I, what am I, supposed to do
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
[Piano Interlude]
Don't you go no where
Don't you ever leave me, don't you ever leave me, ooh
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
Tell me, is it love this time, oh
Tell me girl, oh tell me what you
I'd do anything that you want me to
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