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"
On everything
You know I hurt you when I lied to you
So bogus baby
Naw you didn't deserve that on everything
I never meant to hurt you
You was the best thing that ever happened to me
I'm sorry
On everything
I know you got tired
(Tired)
Of me showing up at your house two hours late
Aye
Making up excuses
(Excuses)
You could tell that I was lying right to your face
Oh ooh oh
I don't know what was wrong with me
I don't know
Was tripping like I didn't know that
Didn't know that
You were the best thing
Oh ooh oh oh oh
That ever happened to me
That ever happened to me, yeah
If you could find it in your heart to give me just one more chance
Yes one more chance, yeah yeah yeah
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Oh baby, if you let me back into your world
Only if you let me back in, I promise
I promise I'm through with the games
That's my word girl, that's My Word
I know I was selfish
(Selfish)
I thought everything revolved around me
Ooh oh yeah yeah
And now I'm helpless
(Helpless)
'Cause I don't know what's it's gonna take to make you believe me again
Ooh oh oh
I don't know what was wrong with me
With me, oh
Was tripping like I didn't know that
Like I didn't know
You always had my back
Yes you did baby
Can you forgive me
Now whoa, oh ooh oh oh oh
If you could find it in your heart to give me just one more chance
Oh, I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
What you want me to be if you
If you let me back into your world
Back into your world, hey hey
I promise I'm through with the games
With the games, oh
That's my word girl
That's my word on everything baby
Listen, baby
This time around
I'll take good care of your heart
And I'll listen to you instead of
Waiting to talk so much
Hey, yeah
And I hope you see how much I've changed
All I need is just one more chance
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Baby, if you let me back into your world
Let me be back in your world
Back in your world, yeah
I promise I'm through with the games, games
That's my word
That's my word baby
Oh
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Baby, if you let me back into your world
Whoa oh whoa oh whoa oh whoa oh oh ooh, yeah yeah
I promise I'm through with the games, games
That's my word
That's my word, yeah yeah
Baby I'm
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more
Not gonna lie no more
No more
Not gonna cheat no more
Hey, baby I'm
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more baby
You know I hurt you when I lied to you
So bogus baby
Naw you didn't deserve that on everything
I never meant to hurt you
You was the best thing that ever happened to me
I'm sorry
On everything
I know you got tired
(Tired)
Of me showing up at your house two hours late
Aye
Making up excuses
(Excuses)
You could tell that I was lying right to your face
Oh ooh oh
I don't know what was wrong with me
I don't know
Was tripping like I didn't know that
Didn't know that
You were the best thing
Oh ooh oh oh oh
That ever happened to me
That ever happened to me, yeah
If you could find it in your heart to give me just one more chance
Yes one more chance, yeah yeah yeah
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Oh baby, if you let me back into your world
Only if you let me back in, I promise
I promise I'm through with the games
That's my word girl, that's My Word
I know I was selfish
(Selfish)
I thought everything revolved around me
Ooh oh yeah yeah
And now I'm helpless
(Helpless)
'Cause I don't know what's it's gonna take to make you believe me again
Ooh oh oh
I don't know what was wrong with me
With me, oh
Was tripping like I didn't know that
Like I didn't know
You always had my back
Yes you did baby
Can you forgive me
Now whoa, oh ooh oh oh oh
If you could find it in your heart to give me just one more chance
Oh, I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
What you want me to be if you
If you let me back into your world
Back into your world, hey hey
I promise I'm through with the games
With the games, oh
That's my word girl
That's my word on everything baby
Listen, baby
This time around
I'll take good care of your heart
And I'll listen to you instead of
Waiting to talk so much
Hey, yeah
And I hope you see how much I've changed
All I need is just one more chance
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Baby, if you let me back into your world
Let me be back in your world
Back in your world, yeah
I promise I'm through with the games, games
That's my word
That's my word baby
Oh
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
I'm gonna be what you want me to be
Baby, if you let me back into your world
Whoa oh whoa oh whoa oh whoa oh oh ooh, yeah yeah
I promise I'm through with the games, games
That's my word
That's my word, yeah yeah
Baby I'm
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more
Not gonna lie no more
No more
Not gonna cheat no more
Hey, baby I'm
Not gonna lie no more
Not gonna cheat no more baby
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