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 got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You're the combination
The secret word that unlocked my door
Remedy to ease the pain
You're every thing that I've been wishing for
You keep the smile on my face
My heart's in overdrive
But when did I last try to get inside
I've got nothing to say
And that's the wasted time
Just idle talking
May you never do mistakes
Love
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
I've got an unlisted telephone
So any time I hear it ring
It has to be you that's calling
Don't have to hide behind an answering machine
I'd like to feel you're in me
For making shadows in the night
And through the curtain lace
Your light has seen me
It shines bright as the sun
You always leave a trace
Of what I'm thinking
You'll always be my
Number one 'cause
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
Anytime you feel that we
Should make a love connection
You'll never find a busy sign
The line is clear to my affection
Private number, private number
Private number
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You're the combination
The secret word that unlocked my door
Remedy to ease the pain
You're every thing that I've been wishing for
You keep the smile on my face
My heart's in overdrive
But when did I last try to get inside
I've got nothing to say
And that's the wasted time
Just idle talking
May you never do mistakes
Love
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
I've got an unlisted telephone
So any time I hear it ring
It has to be you that's calling
Don't have to hide behind an answering machine
I'd like to feel you're in me
For making shadows in the night
And through the curtain lace
Your light has seen me
It shines bright as the sun
You always leave a trace
Of what I'm thinking
You'll always be my
Number one 'cause
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
Anytime you feel that we
Should make a love connection
You'll never find a busy sign
The line is clear to my affection
Private number, private number
Private number
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
You got the key
My private number
Exclusively, there's no other half
For me
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Private Number Lyrics as written by William Bell Booker T. Jr. Jones
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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