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"
You shot your mouth off
Boy
And now you know I'm the talk of the town.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
You been spreadin' those rumors around.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
And now I find that I'm not alone.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
And then it's something I should have known.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics.
When boys talk
They talk about their kicks.
When boys talk
You know what's on their mind.
When boys talk
You know just what you'll find.
Hey
Let me tell you 'bout my date last night
'cause everything really went right.
Don't get me wrong I don't want to brag
But it was just money in the bag
Say money in the bag.
She said I never had a lover like you
Boy
You know just what to do.
And then I did it so many times
She started sayin' nursery rhymes.
She say
Uh, uh, baby
She say
Uh, uh, baby
.
And when she asked to see me again
I couldn't wait to tell all my friends.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics. . . .
When you're out on the street talkin' trash
You even said that I gave you some cash
Why don't you go on the radio
Or get your own T.V. show? Don't broadcast to everyone
'cause my love is one on one
I said one on one
One on one
I said one on one. But if you really think that you should
I'll just tell him that you were no good.
And you know that I would
And you know that I would.
My love is something special to share
So boy
You better start to take care.
And watch your mouth
Say watch your mouth
Watch your mouth.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics. . . .
Don't you talk about me
Boy
Don't you talk about me
When boys talk.
When you're out on the street talkin' trash
You even said that I gave you some cash
Why
Or get your own T.V'show
Don't broadcast to everyone
'cause my love is one
On one
I said one on one
One on one
I said one on one.
Burt if you really think
Trust tell him that you
Were no good. And you know
That I would
And you know
That I would. My love is some-
Thing special to share
So boy
You better start to take care
And watch your mouth
Say watch
Your mouth
Watch your mouth.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics...
Don't you talk about me
Boy
Don't you talk about me
When boys talk.
Boy
And now you know I'm the talk of the town.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
You been spreadin' those rumors around.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
And now I find that I'm not alone.
You shot your mouth off
Boy
And then it's something I should have known.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics.
When boys talk
They talk about their kicks.
When boys talk
You know what's on their mind.
When boys talk
You know just what you'll find.
Hey
Let me tell you 'bout my date last night
'cause everything really went right.
Don't get me wrong I don't want to brag
But it was just money in the bag
Say money in the bag.
She said I never had a lover like you
Boy
You know just what to do.
And then I did it so many times
She started sayin' nursery rhymes.
She say
Uh, uh, baby
She say
Uh, uh, baby
.
And when she asked to see me again
I couldn't wait to tell all my friends.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics. . . .
When you're out on the street talkin' trash
You even said that I gave you some cash
Why don't you go on the radio
Or get your own T.V. show? Don't broadcast to everyone
'cause my love is one on one
I said one on one
One on one
I said one on one. But if you really think that you should
I'll just tell him that you were no good.
And you know that I would
And you know that I would.
My love is something special to share
So boy
You better start to take care.
And watch your mouth
Say watch your mouth
Watch your mouth.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics. . . .
Don't you talk about me
Boy
Don't you talk about me
When boys talk.
When you're out on the street talkin' trash
You even said that I gave you some cash
Why
Or get your own T.V'show
Don't broadcast to everyone
'cause my love is one
On one
I said one on one
One on one
I said one on one.
Burt if you really think
Trust tell him that you
Were no good. And you know
That I would
And you know
That I would. My love is some-
Thing special to share
So boy
You better start to take care
And watch your mouth
Say watch
Your mouth
Watch your mouth.
When boys talk
They don't talk politics...
Don't you talk about me
Boy
Don't you talk about me
When boys talk.
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