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"
Want to make a connection
Cause I know we're gonna take 'em high
And I'll show you how to rip up a kicker
If that's alright
The way you're ridin' the half pipe
There is somethin' 'bout the look in your eye
Hey, girl, why don't you show me a trick or two?
Come, let it fly
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
It's too good to be true
Now I'm ridin' with you
It's too bad to believe
If you know what I mean
Got me spinning around
With my feet off the ground
And I don't want to come back down
It's too good to be true
Okay, it's not like I'm short of a girlfriend (yeah right)
But I'm playin' with my plan on attack
Cause I know that once you've checked out my lip slide
You ain't lookin' back
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
I ride all day, even in the sun
Boilin' hot, but I still have fun
Everybody's watchin', keepin' their eye
On how I skate, how I fly
Ridin' the rails, hittin' the ramps
I'll skate all day, gonna hafta camp
Although I get tired, it doesn't stop me
Hey, bettah watch me
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
And I don't want to come back down
It's too good to be true
Cause I know we're gonna take 'em high
And I'll show you how to rip up a kicker
If that's alright
The way you're ridin' the half pipe
There is somethin' 'bout the look in your eye
Hey, girl, why don't you show me a trick or two?
Come, let it fly
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
It's too good to be true
Now I'm ridin' with you
It's too bad to believe
If you know what I mean
Got me spinning around
With my feet off the ground
And I don't want to come back down
It's too good to be true
Okay, it's not like I'm short of a girlfriend (yeah right)
But I'm playin' with my plan on attack
Cause I know that once you've checked out my lip slide
You ain't lookin' back
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
I ride all day, even in the sun
Boilin' hot, but I still have fun
Everybody's watchin', keepin' their eye
On how I skate, how I fly
Ridin' the rails, hittin' the ramps
I'll skate all day, gonna hafta camp
Although I get tired, it doesn't stop me
Hey, bettah watch me
(Gonna twist now, gonna take you on a ride, gonna get along, gonna get along fine, I got the skills if you got the style)
You do it for me
It's the way you smile, girl
(Take people home, to a hip hop beat, knock me down, knock me off my feet, whip one up, let's get on with the show)
Ooo, you're the way to go
[Chorus]
And I don't want to come back down
It's too good to be true
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2 Good 2 B True Lyrics as written by Nicky Cook Martin Bushell
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