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"
It's gonna take a lot
To drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men
Or more could ever do
No, I don't know
What you do when you do what you do, boy
But baby, baby, baby, baby
I don't even care no more
You've got me so
Caught up in this careless voodoo, boy
But baby, baby, baby, babe
I wanna be there for sure
'Cause every time that we rendezvous
I don't wanna go back home
And every time that I'm holding you
There ain't no way to let you go
You're shining down, boy, the game is through
And I don't wanna play no more
'Cause the only one that I want is you
So tell me what you wanna do because baby
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
And I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
You, and I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
Now I've been told
That you got you got you a few
And you ain't sure
But baby, baby, baby, baby
You gon' wanna let him go
'Cause I've been sold
On you, I don't check for dues no more
'Cause baby, baby, baby, baby
You the way I wanna roll
'Cause every time that we rendezvous
I don't wanna go back home
And every time that I'm holding you
There ain't no way to let you go
You're shining down, boy, the game is through
Listen, I don't wanna play no more
'Cause the only one that I want is you
So tell me what you wanna do because baby
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
I'm down, anything, boy, you and me
It's the way you know it's supposed to be
'Cause I would do anything for you
I'm down, anything, boy, you and me
Should be doing what comes naturally
'Cause I would do anything for you
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
See, I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
See, I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything
To drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men
Or more could ever do
No, I don't know
What you do when you do what you do, boy
But baby, baby, baby, baby
I don't even care no more
You've got me so
Caught up in this careless voodoo, boy
But baby, baby, baby, babe
I wanna be there for sure
'Cause every time that we rendezvous
I don't wanna go back home
And every time that I'm holding you
There ain't no way to let you go
You're shining down, boy, the game is through
And I don't wanna play no more
'Cause the only one that I want is you
So tell me what you wanna do because baby
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
And I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
You, and I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
Now I've been told
That you got you got you a few
And you ain't sure
But baby, baby, baby, baby
You gon' wanna let him go
'Cause I've been sold
On you, I don't check for dues no more
'Cause baby, baby, baby, baby
You the way I wanna roll
'Cause every time that we rendezvous
I don't wanna go back home
And every time that I'm holding you
There ain't no way to let you go
You're shining down, boy, the game is through
Listen, I don't wanna play no more
'Cause the only one that I want is you
So tell me what you wanna do because baby
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
I'm down, anything, boy, you and me
It's the way you know it's supposed to be
'Cause I would do anything for you
I'm down, anything, boy, you and me
Should be doing what comes naturally
'Cause I would do anything for you
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
See, I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
See, I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I just can't stay away
There's nothing that I can do
And baby, you can have your way
Just as long as I can have you
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything for ya
'Cause I'd do anything, baby
Do anything
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