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"
[Verse 1]
What am I gonna do?
I'm sitting here missing you.
It's taking everything in me to not call and say to you,
"I'm sorry for what I did, it was wrong what I did."
But we all make mistakes and I hope it's not to late, but
[Chorus]
My pride won't let me call you and apologize.
It's selfish to say, but my pride won't let me come to you
And look you in the eyes and say, "Baby, I'm sorry."
[Verse 2]
Want it back... you and me.
We were mean to be lovers forever, doing this together.
It was foolish to think that you'd put up with me.
I want you to want me back, but I'll never tell you that because
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Oh I wish I was the kind of woman who
Says "I'm sorry to you, "it's selfish but true.
Oh I wish I had the personality to get down on my knees
And say, "Please forgive me, but"
[Chorus: Repeats till end]
What am I gonna do?
I'm sitting here missing you.
It's taking everything in me to not call and say to you,
"I'm sorry for what I did, it was wrong what I did."
But we all make mistakes and I hope it's not to late, but
[Chorus]
My pride won't let me call you and apologize.
It's selfish to say, but my pride won't let me come to you
And look you in the eyes and say, "Baby, I'm sorry."
[Verse 2]
Want it back... you and me.
We were mean to be lovers forever, doing this together.
It was foolish to think that you'd put up with me.
I want you to want me back, but I'll never tell you that because
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Oh I wish I was the kind of woman who
Says "I'm sorry to you, "it's selfish but true.
Oh I wish I had the personality to get down on my knees
And say, "Please forgive me, but"
[Chorus: Repeats till end]
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My Pride Lyrics as written by John Herbert Jr. Harris Lou Bond
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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