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"
Oh, ooh wee, ya, oh, oh
When I'm looking at you, I keep thinking
Why can't she be like you? So, I'm scheming
I can't go on like this
Believing that her love is true, oh
Standing on the dance floor while she trickin'
You are all I want, girl, she's a chicken
We might be together but love is missing
Girl, I want you, so, what can we do? Oh
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
You shouldn't have to be alone tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Now, she's looking at me but keep talking
Oh, now she trying to ice you, let's start walking
Over on the dance floor
It's her fault but what can she do?
Tell me baby, yeah
Girl, if you're ready
(I'm ready)
Then we can get it on
(We can get it on)
I know where I went wrong
(She's where you went wrong)
With you is where I belong, belong
Girl, if I could find the words to say
I gotta get away from a love
That kills me everyday
I'd gladly say to you
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
You shouldn't have to be alone tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
One on one, one on one
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
My baby's stressin' me
You need to come with me
We need to go somewhere, yeah
Tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
When I'm looking at you, I keep thinking
Why can't she be like you? So, I'm scheming
I can't go on like this
Believing that her love is true, oh
Standing on the dance floor while she trickin'
You are all I want, girl, she's a chicken
We might be together but love is missing
Girl, I want you, so, what can we do? Oh
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
You shouldn't have to be alone tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Now, she's looking at me but keep talking
Oh, now she trying to ice you, let's start walking
Over on the dance floor
It's her fault but what can she do?
Tell me baby, yeah
Girl, if you're ready
(I'm ready)
Then we can get it on
(We can get it on)
I know where I went wrong
(She's where you went wrong)
With you is where I belong, belong
Girl, if I could find the words to say
I gotta get away from a love
That kills me everyday
I'd gladly say to you
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
You shouldn't have to be alone tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
One on one, one on one
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
It's one on one tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
My baby's stressin' me
You need to come with me
We need to go somewhere, yeah
Tonight, tonight
Girl, if it's alright
Let's go somewhere and get it on tonight
I've got a girl but you look good tonight
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Get It on Tonight Lyrics as written by Juergen S. Korduletsch Joerg Evers
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