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"
Let's get down, down, down, down, down
Ain't no words to this song
You just dance and hum along
Said, ain't no words to this song
You just dance and hum along
Now, dance
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Play it organ
Let's get down, down, down, down down, way down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Now listen
There ain't, there ain't no words to this song
You, you just dance and hum along
Said, ain't no words to this song
You sing with me you have time to write that
Oh, now let me see you get
Get it, get it, get it, get it
Oh, come on now talk with me
Wooh
Play it, Tito
Ain't no words to this song
Ain't no words?
Ain't no words, whatchu mean?
Like I said, we didn't have time to write them
Said, ain't no words to this song
What we gonna do?
You just dance and hum along
Soul sister get it
Come on y'all its called funk, funk, funk
(Play it to me)
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Yeah, yeah, hum along and dance
Come on and hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Ain't no words to this song
You just dance and hum along
Said, ain't no words to this song
You just dance and hum along
Now, dance
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Play it organ
Let's get down, down, down, down down, way down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Now listen
There ain't, there ain't no words to this song
You, you just dance and hum along
Said, ain't no words to this song
You sing with me you have time to write that
Oh, now let me see you get
Get it, get it, get it, get it
Oh, come on now talk with me
Wooh
Play it, Tito
Ain't no words to this song
Ain't no words?
Ain't no words, whatchu mean?
Like I said, we didn't have time to write them
Said, ain't no words to this song
What we gonna do?
You just dance and hum along
Soul sister get it
Come on y'all its called funk, funk, funk
(Play it to me)
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Let's get down, down, down, down down
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Yeah, yeah, hum along and dance
Come on and hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
Hum along and dance
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Hum Along and Dance Lyrics as written by Norman Whitfield Barrett Strong
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